12-10-2008, 05:24 AM
Shlama all---
Very interesting. It seems almost a partial sequel to Dr. Grant's "Nestorians or Lost Tribes" as it deals with what happened after he wrote that book, how he actually died. Here is a very cool quote, from p. 36:
"The missionary then showed them copies of the gospels, prepared by the British and Foreign Bible Society, and the Nestorian Spelling Book, prepared at Malta. They kissed the books and pronounced them excellent. The bishop then produced a copy of the New Testament, which Messrs Smith and Dwight had given him; he had kept it enveloped in a shawl, as a choice treasure, and he and his father had not only read it carefully, comparing it with their manuscript of the New Testament, to ascertain if it was a true copy, but he had actually counted the letters, in each verse of the two copies, and found them to agree exactly."
Does this sound a bit familar? This is exactly the practice also developed by the Masoretes for the Tanakh, so when I call the Peshitta the NT Masorah, this is exactly part of what I am talking about.
Very interesting. It seems almost a partial sequel to Dr. Grant's "Nestorians or Lost Tribes" as it deals with what happened after he wrote that book, how he actually died. Here is a very cool quote, from p. 36:
"The missionary then showed them copies of the gospels, prepared by the British and Foreign Bible Society, and the Nestorian Spelling Book, prepared at Malta. They kissed the books and pronounced them excellent. The bishop then produced a copy of the New Testament, which Messrs Smith and Dwight had given him; he had kept it enveloped in a shawl, as a choice treasure, and he and his father had not only read it carefully, comparing it with their manuscript of the New Testament, to ascertain if it was a true copy, but he had actually counted the letters, in each verse of the two copies, and found them to agree exactly."
Does this sound a bit familar? This is exactly the practice also developed by the Masoretes for the Tanakh, so when I call the Peshitta the NT Masorah, this is exactly part of what I am talking about.
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Andrew Gabriel Roth
Andrew Gabriel Roth