Revisiting the Ten Commandments.

That is interesting, I will order that and read it. But a few problems spring immediately to mind. Syriac and Aramaic are similar Semitic languages but not the same. The Aramaic Christ spoke was not the Syriac that is translated in this work. Further the New Testament was written in Greek, while Aramaic was the local dialect of Judea at the time, it was not the common language of letters, trade and academia. The epistles were sent to Churches and people scattered around the Roman world, people who would have no knowledge of an obscure local dialect and thus were written exclusively in the accepted "world" language of Greek.

I will reserve judgement until I have actually read it but it would seem to be another "version", much like the Gnostic Bible, that tends to support a particular position or belief. I would be hesitant to take it too literal, or authoritative, or proclaim it a more accurate translation.
But thank you for bringing it to my attention. It will be an interesting study.

From the wikipedia link it says;

Lamsa was a strong advocate of a belief traditionally held by part of that Church; that the Aramaic New Testament of the Peshitta was the original source text, and that the Greek texts were translated from it. In support of this, he claimed that Aramaic was the language of Jesus and his disciples.[2] According to Lamsa, "Aramaic was the colloquial and literary language of Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, from the fourth century B. C. to the ninth century A. D."[3] This view of the Assyrian Church regarding the Language of the New Testament is rejected by mainstream scholarship, but Lamsa's views won support among some churches such as The Way.[4]

Lamsa further claimed that while most of the Old Testament was written in Hebrew, the original was lost and the present Hebrew version, the Masoretic text, was re-translated from the Peshitta.[citation needed]

Lamsa produced his own translation of the Bible in the form of The Holy Bible from Ancient Eastern Manuscripts, which is commonly called the Lamsa Bible.[5]

Where many scholars hold that the sources of the New Testament and early oral traditions of fledgling Christianity were, indeed, in Aramaic, the Peshitta appears to have been strongly influenced by the Byzantine reading of the Greek manuscript tradition, and is in a dialect of Syriac that is much younger than that which was contemporary to Jesus.[8]

Critics of Lamsa assert that he, like many native Aramaic speakers, extend the semantic areas of words beyond the evidence of existent texts.

 

"There is some contention as to whether or not the people who left Egypt had in fact been slaves. Certainly if the Exodus narrative in the Tanakh is to be believed, some considerable time had elapsed, and many who were present when the Decalogue had been received, had not been born slaves"

True Chell, most scholars believe them to have been more of an indentured servant class than what we would consider as "slaves". No more slaves than anyone living in a society in which the Pharaoh had ultimate authority over his subjects, even over life and death. Of a lower class, and with less rights certainly but not slaves in the conventional definition.

 

The majority of the New Testament is comprised of the "Epistles" or the letters written to the new churches scattered around the Roman world. The Church in Galatia, in Rome, in Thessalonica. The people there would not have spoken or understood Aramaic. Paul was an educated man and would have been fluent in Greek. The Gospels were intended at first as a message to the Yahwist church and the Israelite people in Judea. They may have been originally written in Aramaic but as the church grew it is likely that the original authors themselves or their immediate disciples would have transcribed them into the more common and wider spread language of Greek.

 

ANYONE who lets a "Preacher", "Priest" or some other type of Religious Human Entity get between themselves, and their GOD, has a Weak Mind, and deserves to be Deluded..... I am completely competent to Speak to, and Hear, the Promptings of MY GOD, all on my own... I believe in Direct Revelation, between a Human, and His/Her GOD, and have found this to be the BEST Way for Me.... Others may, and Do, find their Own Way, but for Me and Mine, This is Our Way....

 

Whenever I am asked to speak to an assembly, the first thing I say is "Don't believe anything I say". That gets their attention. I tell people to have a Berean mind and to prove all things. The Bereans while listening to Paul preach would go home at night and search out what he had said to prove if he was right. Talk about a tough crowd!
It's said that the Bible is the most published book of all time, and the least read.

 

I've discussed this before, the Bible is not a word for word "translation". That is simply not possible. There are some words in the original languages that have no direct corresponding word in English and many of the original words have different meanings depending on the context that they are used. The English language Bible is a "transliteration", meaning that medieval monks would read the text in the original language then write in English what they believed it was saying. You can see the huge potential for errors. Such is the case with Exodus 20:12 which is the 6th commandment "Thou shalt not kill". But the original word that is used for "kill" has a far more complicated meaning. If one looks at other places in scripture where that term is used it is most often meant as "to kill unlawfully" or more simply to murder. There are many places in scripture where killing in war, executions, and killing in self defense is quite acceptable and even encouraged. "Those without a sword, sell your cloaks and buy one".
And you are quite correct in the meaning of "eye of a needle". That is referring to the small door in a city gate. To get a camel through would not be an easy task but would be possible. But in the broader lesson of that phrase, it would require the rider to dismount (come off their high horse/camel) and crouch or bow down to get through. It is symbolic of humbling ones self to enter the gate of heaven.
As for someone telling you the meaning of scripture. There is a thought, one in which I agree with, that scripture speaks to people differently in different generations. The Bible is the living word of God and it has so many deep layers that it has the power to "speak" to people throughout time. What was given and told to the ancient Israelites had meaning to them but the words given to them mean something different to our generation. Two men can read the same verses of holy writ and it will mean something different, it will speak to each one differently. That is the glory and the mystery of scripture. There is no other written words in the history of mankind that hold the power that is found in the pages of holy scripture.