Andrew Gabriel Roth is a frequent scholarly contributor to peshitta.org, and author of the book “Signs of the Cross” (2001).  He is a passionate advocate for his Hebraic culture, and the early Nazarene writings which sprung from it.

Raised in New York as a Reform Jew, Andrew took an early interest in Hebrew prayer and liturgy.  For more than three decades he has studied Hebrew, Aramaic, and the histories behind them.

After ten years of research into the Eastern Peshitta dialect, he released his preliminary findings in "Signs of the Cross".  But his research did not stop there, and in his latest book, “Ruach Qadim”, he details the case for Aramaic written originality of 22 New Testament books, pointing to the Eastern Peshitta traditions as the best bearer of those writers’ original words.  Andrew’s painstaking attention to linguistic detail has resulted in a much better scholarly understanding of the true origins of the New Testament writings and the Hebraic roots of their thought.

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Special Note from Andrew December 3, 2007 regarding home visits and phone calls:
Shlama to all of you who read this.  It is my honor and privilege to provide all of you information on the Netzari faith and the Aramaic language.  I am grateful to everyone who has taken even a moment to read and consider my teachings, but I also wanted to take a moment to explain why my ministry for the present must just reside in cyberspace.
 
Some years ago I was mailing out CD-Rom copies of my Ruach Qadim rough draft and also was corresponding with many well meaning folks that I met at various teaching conferences across the country.  Other worthy organizations also sought to be able to have my email at least so they could have me help them answer questions about Aramaic mostly to their sincere seekers of truth.  All of this was tov and kosher.  Then and now, I am honored to help via email when I can.
 
However, my contact information, including my address and phone number, also got on the web, and what followed was much confusion.  Well meaning people thought I was running a synagogue from my residence, and I am not. They left messages at all hours asking when services were and lately began stopping by unannounced, when I could not receive them properly.  Even if I was holding prayers, those who stopped by unannounced would have clearly disturbed the people who would have already been here and were polite enough to make appointments in advance. 
 
But no one is "at fault" here because both those who put my address and phone on the web and those who acted on that information did so from a wonderful place of desiring to praise YHWH and His Son Y'shua. It's just that they need to go to places that are properly set up in their infrastructure to accommodate them, for their own sake.  A good place for them to start is www.2house.org but there are many other great search engines on the internet that can assist and I pray their endeavors bear much fruit.
 
Another issue is that I have long advocated a more standardized yeshiva program for all rabbis in the Netzari faith.  Such is not meant to take away from any person who has felt the calling to serve and preach the Torah and the Gospel. I judge no one's scholarship or faith walk as wanting as that is not my job or my intention. 
 
Instead, I knew from my time as an anti-missionary before I came to know Y'shua that it was very easy to discredit folks on the "Messianic" side when it became clear their training in Hebrew was not as strong as their rabbinic counterparts.
 
Again, I refer to NO ONE IN PARTICULAR CURRENTLY IN THE MOVEMENT; THIS IS INSTEAD SOMETHING I WISH FOR AND APPLY TO MYSELF FROM WHAT I SAW IN THE 1980'S.  As a result, I feel that since I am not properly ordained, I am not worthy of a physical congregation anyway. Whatever callings people have now, it is not for me to question it as YHWH knows and judges all things for us. Rather, I am simply explaining the standard I hold for myself and myself alone. 
 
In the future of course, YHWH can and may lead me in another direction. For now though my privacy is tantamount so that I may continue the scholarship for the kingdom of YHWH that I am called to do. I firmly believe that it is better to try to help many at once than one or two at a time, although I have strived to do my best for all concerned. My free writings, books and my upcoming Aramaic-English interlinear NT, along with many other projects, exist to meet this need, to go where I cannot and explain what is needed to the many who ask when they need those answers. If there are remaining questions though, email still remains the best way to contact me.
 
Todah (thank you) for your understanding in this matter.
 
Andrew Gabriel Roth
December 3, 2007