A little research indicates that no text of the "original" Aramaic
version of the Lord's Prayer, as it might have been spoken by Jesus,
exists: the existing Aramaic text is from the Peshitta version of the
new testament, which is written in a Syriac dialect of Aramaic and is
itself considered by scholars itself to be a translation from the
Greek version of Matthew. The version quoted in these emails seems to
be one of several New-Age-ized versions which have been circulating in
recent decades. The literal translations of the Aramaic version which
I've seen are actually quite close to the standard English versions.
I'm not quoting sources here because anyone can find them on line in
less time than it would take me to add them to this email.
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