Parallel Statement

[Aaron S]

It is written in the NAB introduction to the book of Baruch, "The prose sections were certainly composed in Hebrew, though the earliest known form of the book is in Greek" (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/baruch/intro.htm">http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/baruch/intro.htm</a><!-- m -->). It seems easy for scholars to say that Baruch, a work possibly contemporary with the Peshitta, was written in Hebrew, though the manuscript chronology begs to differ; the same cannot be said for a scholar making a claim about the Peshitta. Though there is the house of scholars which would say the Peshitta text is the earliest known form of the book, the most liberal Peshitta primacist would say, "The writings were certainly composed in Aramaic, though the earliest known form of the book is in Greek," and that would be scoffed upon.