This volume, while including English translations of the Gospel of Matthew and the Hebrew Epistle from the ancient Syriac, contains great explanations of the various Aramean dialects and of the different versions of the Bible extant in them. Providing in-depth introductions to both New Testament works, Etheridge compares the Syriac translations with the Greek texts, offering the view that these works should be studied in the original vernacular dialect of ancient Judea.