I want to recommend a paperback volume of only 130 page, but a book I gleaned a lot of understanding from. And that word, "understanding," is part of its title.
Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights From a Hebraic Perspective by David Bivin and Roy Blizzard, Jr. is the book.
Their theses include:
1. Hebrew, not Aramaic, was the common language in Judea and Galilee in Jesus' day.
2. Not only Matthew, but all the synoptic gospels were originally written in Hebrew and not Greek.
3. The Hebrew of the day was highly idiomatic. Literal translation into Greek is often without meaning. From Greek, then, into English can be even worse.
Read it. It cleared up a lot of things for me before. I'm beginning now to read it again.
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