Hebrew New Testament Books. There have been claims that descendants of first century Hebrew New Testament Books have recently surfaced, but the copy of Matthew that I have seen, purporting to be a copy of the original, contains passages that were added to the Byzantine text in later centuries, so that cannot be a copy of a first century text. Scholars also say the Syriac texts, a language close to Aramaic and related to Hebrew, were translated from Greek, not originally written in Syriac or translated from Hebrew. The descendants of the oldest Syriac texts were probably translated from Greek at the end of the second century or the beginning of the third century. The most reliable Syriac texts are from the fifth century and later, with the best known being the Peshitta, translated from Greek early in the fifth century.