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158:. Although there are many so-called manuscript witnesses to the Diatessaron, they all differ, and, ultimately only witness to the enduring popularity of such harmonies. Rescensions appeared in later centuries as translation of originals. Many medieval European harmonies draw on the
283:). It is the oldest Syriac version which has survived to the present day in its entirety. It contains the entire Old Testament, most (?) of the deuterocanonical books, as well as 22 books of the New Testament, lacking the shorter
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Scholars have distinguished five or six different Syriac versions of all or part of the New
Testament. It is possible that some translations have been lost. Other than Syria, the manuscripts also originate in countries like
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These four manuscripts represent only the
Gospels. The text of Acts and the Pauline Epistles has not survived to the present. It is known only from citations made by Eastern fathers. The text of Acts was reconstructed by
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in eastern Syria. This translation contains the five books not found in the
Peshitta: 2 Peter, 2 John, 3 John, Jude, and the Apocalypse. This translation survived only in short fragments. It is designated by
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Die alten Übersetzungen des Neuen
Testaments, die Kirchenväterzitate und Lektionare: der gegenwärtige Stand ihrer Erforschung und ihre Bedeutung für die griechische Textgeschichte
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This is the earliest translation of the gospels into Syriac. The earliest translation of any New
Testament text from Greek seems to have been the
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Brock, Sebastian P. (2016). "Two hitherto unattested passages of the Old Syriac
Gospels in palimpsests from St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai".
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The Text of the New
Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism
407:. It is represented by some 35 manuscripts dating from the 7th century and later; they show kinship with the Western text-type.
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More than 350 manuscripts survived, several of which date from the 5th and 6th centuries. In the
Gospels it is closer to the
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in Rome. Although no original text of the
Diatessaron survives, its foremost witness is a prose commentary on it by
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42:. Syriac translations of the New Testament were among the first and date from the 2nd century. The whole
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and edited by him in 1858. The manuscript is dated paleographically to the 5th century. It is called
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are only recensions of
Peshitta, but according to others they are independent new translations.
235:. Two additional manuscripts of the Old Syriac version of the gospels were published in 2016 by
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617:"A New (Double Palimpsest) Witness to the Old Syriac Gospels (Vat. iber. 4, ff. 1 & 5)"
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consist of fragments of the four Gospels. The text was brought in 1842 from the
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are believed to have been written. Syria was the country in which the
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was translated by the 5th century. Besides Syriac, there are
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The Old Syriac version translation of the four gospels or
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Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum
814:. Tiruvalla: Christava Sahitya Samithy. pp. 103–118.
287:(2-3 John, 2 Peter, Jude, as well as John 7:53-8:11) and
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Peshitta with analytical lexicon and English translation
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341:— the oldest dated Syriac manuscript of the two Gospels
347:— the whole Peshitta text from the fifth/sixth century
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788:"Greek Words in the Syriac Gospels (Vet. and Pe.)"
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317:The earliest manuscript of the Peshitta is a
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860:. Oxford: 195–208. 1891.
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