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Assyrian author (–)

George Mamishisho Lamsa (Syriac: ܓܝܘܪܓܝܣ ܠܡܣܐ) (August 5, – September 22, ) was an Assyrian^[1] author. He was born in Mar Bishu in what is now the extreme east of Turkey. A native Aramaic speaker, he translated the Aramaic PeshittaOld and New Testaments into English. He popularized the claim of the Assyrian Church of the East that the New Testament was written in Aramaic and then translated into Greek, contrary to academic consensus.

Life

Lamsa fled from the Ottoman Empire during the s during World War I,^[2] initially settling in South America. In the s, he immigrated to the United States, where he lived for the rest of his life. He studied at the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia and at Dropsie College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On September 22, , he died in Turlock, California.^[3]

History and views

Lamsa was a member of the Assyrian Church of the East, a Syriac church that uses George m. lamsa biography net worth.