As a scripture of the late antique Near East (180--632 CE), the Qur'an was in dialogue with numerous impulses coming from the Judeo-Christian as well as Zoroastrian sphere. The religious movement within which the Qur'an arose was the religion preached by Muh & dotbelow;ammad (d. 632), whose Arabic name Islam paralleled that of the waning mashlman uta, or "prophetic tradition," of the Syriac speaking churches, and which patriarchs like John of Ephesus (d. 586) and Babai the Great (d. 628) sought to reconsolidate.

This book is a study of related passages found in the Arabic Qur’ān and the Aramaic Gospels, i.e. the Gospels preserved in the Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic dialects. It builds upon the work of traditional Muslim scholars, including al-Biqā‘ī (d. ca. 808/1460) and al-Suyūṭī (d. 911/1505), who wrote books examining connections between the Qur’ān on the one hand, and Biblical passages and Aramaic terminology on the other, as well as modern western scholars, including Sidney Griffith who argue that pre-Islamic Arabs accessed the Bible in Aramaic. The Qur’ān and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions examines the history of religious movements in the Middle East from 180-632 CE, explaining Islam as a response to the disunity of the Aramaic speaking churches. It then compares the Arabic text of the Qur’ān and the Aramaic text of the Gospels under four main themes: the prophets; the clergy; the divine; and the apocalypse. Among the findings of this book are that the articulator as well as audience of the Qur’ān were monotheistic in origin, probably bilingual, culturally sophisticated and accustomed to the theological debates that raged between the Aramaic speaking churches. Arguing that the Qur’ān’s teachings and ethics echo Jewish-Christian conservatism, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Religion, History, and Literature.

An easy-to-understand book, "Gospel Light" has brief commentaries by Dr. Lamsa on stories and verses in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Key words are listed in English, Aramaic, and in English phonetic spelling for Aramaic syllables. The book can be read alone or as a great companion to any holy Bible.

This is the Gospel of John translated from the Aramaic text of the 1905 Syriac Peshitta New Testament, published by the British and United Bible Societies. Aramaic was the language of Jesus and his countrymen of Israel, as well as that of neighboring Syria, Persia, Asia, and all Jewish colonies throughout the known world. The Peshitta has a long tradition among Syrian and Assyrian (Iraqi and Lebanese) Christians as being the original text of the New Testament written by the Apostles and Evangelists of Jesus in the first century AD. Mel Gibson's film, The Passion of The Christ presented an Aramaic script for most of the dialogue of Jesus and the Apostles and other Jews, which added realism, historic accuracy and power to the film. Read this Gospel translated directly from inspired John's Aramaic words given by Rucha d'Qoodsha (The Spirit of Holiness) presenting The Lord Messiah Yeshua as Jehovah of Hosts- The Living God of Heaven and Creator of the universe, and according to the words which he himself spoke.

As I translated the Old Testament Scriptures from the Ancient Aramaic language, I discovered that these stories were the spiritual evolution for those people who would be transformed by the coming of Eashoa Msheekha (Jesus the Messiah) to the world two thousand years ago. Each book of the Scriptures was a prophetic journey for the followers of Eashoa Msheekha. When Eashoa came to the world, He gathered around him many disciples, out of which he chose twelve to be his torch carriers. One of the twelve was Judah of Iscariot who would betray him. This betrayal was anticipated, because Eashoa understood the nature of the human being when dealing with money: Judah of Iscariot was the purse keeper of the disciples and he took care of their finances. This led to his taking matters into his own hands as he made preparations for the survival of the group after Eashoa was going to be seized and killed - as Eashoa had told them that this would befall him - as it was prophesied. This practical sense of those who believe in money as the basis for survival, is what brings about most the betrayals of what is good in this world. In every group there are those individuals who will be swayed by evil; Satan assumed the role of misleading those people who love fame, money and power more than their creator, (who is known in the Aramaic language as Allaha and in English as God.) The religious establishment today is no different than the high priests, scribes and elders of the Hebrew people at the time of Eashoa. They were more devoted to their financial positions than the Scriptures. That is why the religious leadership with the power in Jerusalem, and protected by the Roman Empire, did not recognize Eashoa as the Messiah. They were possessed by Satan and did not interpret the Scriptures according to the Ancient Aramaic language; they chose instead other versions of the Scriptures as kept by the Essenes and other sects, such as the Pharisees and the Sadducees. And following the crucifixion of Eashoa they distorted the Scriptures some more to obliterate the prophecies that led directly to the recognition of Eashoa as the Messiah. In the same way today, the religious establishments have chosen other versions of the Bible, those that are not translated from the Ancient Aramaic language, the language that Eashoa Msheekha spoke, wrote, and read the Scriptures from. The Western Bibles, translated from the Hebrew Old Testament, the Greek Septuagint, and the Latin Vulgate (together with all their translations) are not consistent with the Ancient Aramaic Scriptures of the Ancient Church of the East. This is why I'm translating the original Scriptures, those that Eashoa Msheekha (Jesus the Messiah) read from when He walked the earth. You can read for the first time the real stories of the Old Testament and how they led to a clear identification of the Messiah who came two thousand years ago. You can now grow through the spiritual evolution of the Old Testament stories as they prophesied about the coming of Maran Eashoa Msheekha (our Lord Jesus the Messiah.)