The Assyrian Modern Version is a New Testament and Psalms in
modern Assyrian, published by the Bible Society in Lebanon (1997).
The version is newly translated from
Koine Greek
Koine Greek (, ), also variously known as Hellenistic Greek, common Attic, the Alexandrian dialect, Biblical Greek, Septuagint Greek or New Testament Greek, was the koiné language, common supra-regional form of Greek language, Greek spoken and ...
, not a revision of the ancient translation from the Greek
Peshitta
The Peshitta ( ''or'' ') is the standard Syriac edition of the Bible for Syriac Christian churches and traditions that follow the liturgies of the Syriac Rites.
The Peshitta is originally and traditionally written in the Classical Syriac d ...
, still used in Orthodox and Catholic churches. Although written in the modern standard form, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, the version is also intelligible to speakers of the Chaldean Neo-Aramaic dialect.
References
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Bible translations into Aramaic
1997 books