The Palestinan Syriac Lectionary of the Gospels
The Palestinan Syriac Lectionary of the Gospels

Author: Agnes Smith Lewis

Publisher: Gorgias PressLlc

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9781593339173

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The work of the remarkable sisters Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson, this lectionary of what is now known as Christian Palestinian Aramaic, was re-edited in the light of two manuscripts from the Sinai, which they recovered, and from Paul de Lagarde's Evangeliarium Hierosolymitanum. An important document for the textual criticism of the New Testament as well as for the early practice of the church, Lewis and Dunlap added to its value by composing this light "critical edition." Presented in Syriac with English annotations to the Greek text of the Gospels, this useful study will be welcome by New Testament scholars and Syriac scholars alike.

Tatian and the Jewish Scriptures
Tatian and the Jewish Scriptures

Author: Robert F. Shedinger

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9789042910423

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It has long been argued that Tatian, in the production of the Diatessaron, made regular reference to the Old Testament Peshitta when he came across Old Testament citations in the Gospels. This book argues on the contrary that Tatian made little or no use of the Old Testament Peshitta, but regularly took over the text of the Old Testament citations as he found them in the Gospel sources out of which he created his harmony. Where they differ from the form of these citations in the standard Greek text tradition of the Gospels, it is because, in the second century, Tatian had access to Gospel sources which may have varied significantly from the text of the later manuscripts on which our modern critical editions are based. Thus, Tatian's Diatessaron becomes a window into an early state of the Gospel texts and supports the idea that a significant amount of textual fluidity characterized the Gospel texts in the first two centuries of their transmission. This study will be of interest to those working in the fields of Diatessaronic studies, New Testament Textual Criticism, and the history of the Syriac Church.

The Arabic Versions of the Gospels
The Arabic Versions of the Gospels

Author: Hikmat Kashouh

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-11-30

Total Pages: 777

ISBN-13: 3110228599

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This book is concerned with the Arabic versions of the Gospels. It is an attempt to examine a substantial number of Arabic manuscripts which contain the continuous text of the canonical Gospels copied between the eighth and the nineteenth centuries and found in twenty-one different library collections in Europe and the Orient. Following the introduction, Chapter Two presents the state of research from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present time. Chapter Three introduces and reflects on the two hundred plus manuscripts examined in this work. Chapters Four to Eight concentrate on grouping these manuscripts into twenty-four families and examining their Vorlagen (Greek, Syriac, Coptic and Latin). In order to examine the relationship between the families, phylogenetic software is used. Consequently, the manuscripts are grouped into seven different mega clusters or tribes. Finally the date of the first translation of the Gospels into Arabic is addressed and (a) provisional date(s) suggested based on the textual and linguistic analyses of the manuscripts. The conclusion in Chapter Ten gives the overall contribution made by this thesis and also future avenues for the study of the Arabic versions of the Gospels.

Studies on the Text of the New Testament and Early Christianity
Studies on the Text of the New Testament and Early Christianity

Author: Daniel Gurtner

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-09-29

Total Pages: 732

ISBN-13: 9004300023

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The collection of essays focuses on the twin areas of research undertaken by Prof. Michael W. Holmes. These are the sub-disciplines of textual criticism and the study of the Apostolic Fathers. The first part of the volume on textual criticism focuses on issues of method, the praxis of editing and collating texts, and discussions pertaining to individual variants. The second part of the volume assembles essays on the Apostolic Fathers. There is a particular focus on the person and writings of Polycarp, since this is the area of research where Prof. Holmes has worked most intensively.

Tatian's Diatessaron
Tatian's Diatessaron

Author: William L. Petersen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 9004312927

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A gospel harmony composed c. 172 C.E., the Diatessaron is one of the earliest witnesses to the gospels. Regarded as the first version of the gospels in Latin, Syriac, and Armenian, the Diatessaron was used by Encratites, Judaic-Christians, and “Great Church” Christians alike. This study is the first comprehensive treatment of the Diatessaron in more than a century. After sketching the second-century setting and Tatian's biography, it describes virtually every Diatessaronic witness and provides a scholar-by-scholar summary of research from 546 to the present. Criteria for reconstructing Diatessaronic readings are developed, and numerous examples offer the reader first-hand experience with the witnesses. It contains the first Bibliography of research on the Diatessaron (600+ titles) and the first “Catalogue of Manuscripts of Diatessaronic Witnesses and Related Works” ever published.

Codex Climaci Rescriptus
Codex Climaci Rescriptus

Author: Agnes S. Lewis

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2004-05-19

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1592447090

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Agnes Lewis Smith and her twin sister, M. D. Gibson, traveled the Near East, and St. Catherine's monastery at Mt. Sinai in particular, hunting and purchasing ancient texts. This volume includes fragments of sixth-century Palestinian Syriac texts of the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, and Paul's Epistles. Also included are fragments of an early Palestinian lectionary of the Old Testament.