[djmcmath]

I am, in fact, of the belief that the NT was written in Greek. In fact, I would hold with the majority of conservative scholars that we have some manuscripts that even predate the fall of Jerusalem in 65AD, written in Greek. The Greek text that I keep on my desk is (for all intents) identical to the early Greek mss. It's tough to do much better with ancient documents, imho.

As to a Greek translation from Aramaic ... there are a couple of translations of the OT floating around -- the Septuagint was an early latin translation of the OT, and the Masoretic texts are an early Greek translation (~150BC, give or take). Either way, both of those started with the Hebrew OT. Only a few snippets of the OT are done in Aramaic. In fact, little enough of the OT was done in Aramaic that most Bible school students don't even bother learning it. For the limited amount of text they'll need to read, it just isn't worth it.

I must be confused. What am I missing?