קָלָא דְּיֵשׁוּעַ

Qala d’Yeshua

An Aramaic-aware translation of the four Gospels

Jesus taught in Aramaic. The Gospels were written down in Greek. This is a translation that listens for his voice beneath the Greek to try to learn from him on the firmest possible ground.

What is this?

A new combination of long-existing sources.

Qala d’Yeshua is Aramaic for the voice of Jesus.

It is a rendering of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John that starts from the Greek text and listens for the Aramaic beneath it.

Read and listen

The four Gospels.

Matthew
28 chapters
Read & listen
Download: Word · MP3 · 91 MB
Mark
16 chapters
Read & listen
Download: Word · MP3 · 57 MB
Luke
24 chapters
Read & listen
Download: Word · MP3 · 98 MB
John
21 chapters
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Download: Word · MP3 · 75 MB

These are living drafts.

Matthew 5 · The Beatitudes
“Fortunate are those poor in Ruha, for the reign of the heavens is theirs.”
Where the ground is firm, the Aramaic shapes the English:
  • Turn around, not repent
  • Release, not forgive
  • Reign, not kingdom
  • Fortunate, not blessed
  • The Immerser, not the Baptist
Method

How can we find firm ground?

The Greek text is the base, yet Yeshua spoke Aramaic. With care we can sometimes know what his specific words were, and we can be methodical about how confident we are in a given word.

  1. T1 Certain Aramaic-governed
  2. T2 Confident Aramaic-enriched
  3. T3 Uncertain Hybrid
  4. T4 Narrative frame Greek-governed

Read the method

Study the Gospels

Study the sources.

Try it: open Talitha, qum · Mark 5:41, where the Greek itself preserves the Aramaic.