Janet Magiera is an ordained minister and the founder of Light of the Word Ministry, a ministry dedicated to teaching and making known the understanding of the Aramaic language, figures of speech and customs of the Bible. For over 38 years, she has taught in Bible fellowships and churches in the United States and other countries. In 1990, Jan began compiling a database of the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament. It has been developed as a software module by BibleWorks and is also available online at www.aramaicdb.lightofword.org. In 2006 she published The Aramaic Peshitta New Testament Translation, the first book of a complete Aramaic Peshitta New Testament Library. The library includes an interlinear, lexicon, concordance, Messianic version and parallel translations. Jan has also authored topical books on Biblical subjects about giving, ministries, Aramaic and Hebrew word pictures and the armor of God.