Old Testament Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Other versions=== While the Hebrew, Greek and Latin versions of the Hebrew Bible are the best known Old Testaments, there were others. At much the same time as the Septuagint was being produced, translations were being made into Aramaic, the language of Jews living in Palestine and the Near East and likely the [[language of Jesus]]: these are called the Aramaic [[Targum]]s, from a word meaning "translation", and were used to help Jewish congregations understand their scriptures.{{Sfn | Würthwein | 1995 | pp = 79–90, 100–4}} For Aramaic Christians, there was a [[Syriac language|Syriac]] translation of the Hebrew Bible called the [[Peshitta]], as well as versions in [[Coptic language|Coptic]] (the everyday language of Egypt in the first Christian centuries, descended from [[Ancient Egyptian language|ancient Egyptian]]), [[Geʽez|Ethiopic]] (for use in the [[Ethiopian church]], one of the oldest Christian churches), [[Armenian language|Armenian]] (Armenia was the first to adopt Christianity as its official religion), and [[Arabic]].{{Sfn | Würthwein | 1995 | pp = 79–90, 100–4}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page