Aramaic Insight

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Peshitta Manuscript

This is a section from an actual Aramaic Peshitta manuscript. The letters are written in
Estrangelo script. That is the script that was used in the early centuries AD. All of the LWM
Publications use a font that is fashioned after this script. Picture a scribe using a metal pen
on vellum or parchment and that is the reason for the thicker and thinner shapes of the
letters!

I have been studying this language for the last 40 years and at the time I began, there were
not very many books available to study it. You had to pour over manuscripts like this and
search through out-of-print dictionaries for the definitions to words. NOW there are many
books to study Aramaic in print and the entire database that I worked on for many years is
available for use. You can see inside the books at Amazon.com.

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