The
Hebraic Keys to the New Testament Series
presents the
Hebrew Names Version
(HNV) of the World English Bible (a modern-language update of the highly literal
American Standard Version
) in parallel with the British & Foreign Bible Society's critical edition of the most ancient Semitic-language version of the complete New Testament to survive to the present day, the Aramaic Peshitta (converted here to the Ashuri square script familiar to readers of Hebrew). For each verse, Biblical Hebrew equivalents are provided for multiple keywords of the Greek Textus Receptus underlying the English translation, allowing readers to consider the Peshitta scribes' renderings of the expressions of the Greek Testament into Aramaic side-by-side with the words and phrases of the Hebrew Scriptures (i.e., the Christian "Old Testament") that the earlier scribes of the Septuagint (LXX) glossed using these very same Greek words. With three helpful lexicons and a classic commentary by John Lightfoot based on rabbinic and other traditional Jewish sources, little to no prior familiarity with Hebrew or Aramaic is required; basic Hebrew letter recognition and awareness of alphabet order (skills which can be acquired in a single afternoon) will enable hours of fruitful textual study. This volume of the series also includes a facsimile of the Du Tillet-Mercier Old Hebrew Matthew.