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There is reason to believe that his so-called translation is partly a work of his own imagination, making the Passion ‘Translation’ in turn wholly unreliable. Alexander is a film-maker, and does not appear to have any qualifications to translate ancient Syriac. Shortly afterwards, I was able to identify the main source of Simmons’ ‘translations’ from the Peshitta as being Victor Alexander’s ‘Aramaic Bible’, which purports to be an English translation of ancient Aramaic scriptures. Then after an exchange on Facebook with Simmons about his ‘translation’ of Galatians 3.1, I realised that Simmons was almost certainly not translating from Syriac at all.

It soon became apparent that most of the purported translations were incorrect. While these questions about the source text are of vital importance, an even more serious matter surfaced in March 2017 through a brief investigation I undertook of those occasional words, phrases, clauses and sentences that Simmons said he had translated from the ‘Aramaic’ (which I will henceforth refer to as the Syriac Peshitta on the basis of his web-site’s FAQs). 2 What is Brian Simmons’ view? Does his switching from Greek to a supposed ‘original’ Aramaic text source perhaps indicate that he has been sufficiently influenced by ‘Aramaic primacy’ to have become unsure what language Paul wrote in? Did Simmons actually translate from the Peshitta? The best known was George Lamsa, who was a member of the Church of the East, which has held this position as a matter of dogma. In fact, there do exist proponents (the best known being George Lamsa) of the view that the entire New Testament was written in Aramaic. If he had, it would not have been understood by many of the saints in Rome: In a review of ‘Romans: Grace and Glory’, Lionel Windsor, Lecturer in New Testament and Greek at Moore College Sydney, wrote that ‘nobody’ thinks that Paul wrote Romans in Aramaic. The second question raised is whether Simmons believes that it is possible that Paul wrote to the Romans in Aramaic. What is the logic of this? Does Simmons believe that Paul wrote some of his letter in Greek and some in Aramaic? Instead he gives the appearance, as marked by endnotes, of switching between translating from Greek and translating from ‘the Aramaic’ (identified as the Peshitta by the above statement about textual source materials). To my knowledge, Simmons does not use the Peshitta for either of these scholarly purposes. It is normal for translators of Paul’s letters to make use of Latin, Syriac, Coptic and other early translations for a) deciding which of alternative readings of the Greek texts is more likely to be the original, and b) deciding which of alternative meanings of a Greek word, phrase or sentence is more likely to be correct. Simmons says that for the New Testament he used the Greek New Testament (Nestle-Aland, 27th ed.) as his base text, while incorporating ‘insights’ from the Syriac Peshitta (Syriac being an ancient dialectic of Aramaic 1):

How can a single letter from Paul have both ‘original’ Greek texts and ‘original’ Aramaic texts? Surely he must have written Romans in either one language or the other? Raising first of all a question of logic: Likewise, the first edition of ‘Letters from Heaven by the Apostle Paul’ (2014) was claimed to have been translated ‘directly’ from the ‘original Greek and Aramaic texts’ by Simmons:Īs was the first edition of Romans: Grace and Glory (2015): For example, The Psalms: Poetry on Fire (2015) was said to have been ‘translated directly from the original Hebrew text’:

Andrew Chapman on Grenfell Tower: the road to ambiguity (part 3)īrian Simmons, along with BroadStreet Publishing, claimed in early editions of the so-called ‘Passion Translation bible’, that he had ‘translated directly’ from the original text.

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