09-10-2011, 01:50 AM
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Will you have other Peshitta Manuscripts up someday to compare, like you have the 2 already? Like the Mingana and the Younan Codex perhaps...and the Ambrosianus for the OT???
Mr. Bauscher has told me that he is half way done in rough draft of the OT from the Ambrosianus text. And Mr. Roth might be working on one as well.
Blessings
Shlama Akhi:
Unfortunately both the Younan (displayed at the Holyland Museum in Orlando Florida) and the Mingana Codex (at the Manchester Library in England) are copyrighted and are not available for display on the internet. The best I can recommend is that you download each page of the Mingana Codex and study it at your own leasure. There are virtualy no significant variants between the Mingana Codex, Khabouris Codex and the short section of the Younan transcription at Dukhrana which I transcribed. So, personally I see no gain in any modern translaton. Murdock ad Ethridge trump all modern translations that I have seen and read.
Translation of the Peshitta New Testament continues to trouble translators. There is no way of accurately bridging the gap between semitic grammer, idioms and poetry and English, or for that matter any non-semitic language. It is for this reason that it is paramount to work with Aramaic and Hebrew, and get a working knowledge. Mine is small, but I have been richly rewarded for my diligence. Dukhrana Biblical Research and Peshitta.org are the best tools on the internet for study and discovery.
Having said this, there is no greater thrill, in my personal opinion, than finding the original treasures in Aramaic and Hebrew, both of which predate Greek. Remember, Abraham's mother tongue was Aramaic and he had to earn Canaanite (paleo-Hebrew). Isaac and Jacob both spoke Aramaic and Hebrew fluently.
Shlama,
Stephen Silver