![]() ![]() These books were not popular in the Syriac Church till much later. Unlike the Old Syriac, the Peshitto includes all the books of the New Testament, apart from the Minor Catholic Epistles (2 Peter, 2 and 3 John and Jude) and Revelation. It became the authoritative translation of all Syriac-speaking Churches till this day (Syriac Orthodox, Assyrian Church of the East, Maronite, Chaldean and Syrian Catholic). The end result was what we now know as the Peshitto version, completed sometime around the 4th or 5th century. These revisions were done by a number of translators during a long period of time. Since the Old Syriac was a free translation, it went through a series of revisions to make it closer to the original Greek text. After the Old Syriac was replaced by the Peshitto (see below), it was forgotten by the Syriac Church until two manuscripts containing portions of its texts were discovered in the nineteenth century. They had in mind the reader rather than the original text. The Old Syriac is a 'free' translation from the Greek text it is 'free' in the sense that the translators paraphrased the text in order to make it as clear as possible to the native Syriac reader. However, the ancient Syriac church which used this translation named it in Syriac Evangelion Dampharshe which means 'Gospels of the Separated' in order to distinguish it from 'Gospel of the Mixed'. ![]() Since it is older than the text of the Syriac Bible which is current, it was called by scholars the Old Syriac. This translation was unknown to the Syriac Church or to Biblical scholars until its discovery in the nineteenth century. The Syriac Church produced another version of the Gospels in the 2nd-5th century. Some verses can be found as citations in the writings of the Church Fathers. Alas, the text of the Syriac Diatessaron is lost, but Popular in the early Syriac Church, but later was replaced by the four (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) into one text. Sources as the Diatessaron, a Greek word meaning 'through four '.Īs its name implies, this Gospel was made up by 'combining' the four Gospels Translators of the Septuagint, according to tradition.Īs for the New Testament, the earliest form used in the early Syriacĭamhalte which means 'Gospels of the Mixed'. Translation is known in Syriac as dshab`in or 'translation of the seventy', a reference to the seventy (which in turn was translated from the original Hebrew and Aramaic). Major translation of the Old Testament was done from the Greek Septuagint Period of time in the first two centuries of the Christian Era. It was accomplished by many different translators over a considerable The Old Testament into Syriac was the Peshitto. The first major translation from the original Hebrew and Aramaic of In our European libraries we have Syriac Bible manuscripts from Lebanon, Egypt, Sinai, Mesopotamia, Armenia, India (Malabar), even from China" ('Syriac Versions,' in Hastings's Dictionary of the Bible, iv, 1902). In his brief article on the Syriac Versions of the Bible, the German New Testament scholar Eberhard Nestle notes: "No branch of the Early Church has done more for the translation of the Bible into their vernacular than the Syriac-speaking. This is a noteworthy testimony to their critical study of the Holy Scriptures. ![]() The Syriac Church Fathers produced no less than six different versions of the New Testament and at least two major versions of the Old Testament. Translations and Revisions of the Syriac Bible ![]()
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