Lexicon to the Syriac New Testament by William Jennings provides and handy and inexpensive Syriac-English dictionary for the beginning student. Syriac is the English name for the dialect of Aramaic of the city of Edessa (Urhai) which became the liturgical and literary language of the large body of Christians in the eastern Roman and Persian empires of antiquity. Along side Latin and Greek, Syriac is one of the most important original languages in which Christianity developed and spread. Knowledge of Syriac is the key to unlock the vast literary treasures of the Assyrian Church of the East and the Syriac Orthodox Church.