12-02-2003, 08:09 PM
Shlama Akhi Dave,
Yes, I have a complete copy of the Khabouris manuscript. It is identical to the modern printed copies of the Peshitta. It is a complete text of all of the 22 books of the Peshitta canon, and the manuscript itself is carbon-dated to the 11th century. In the colophon the scribe states that he was commissioned by his bishop to copy the original because it was disintegrating. He stated that the original dated to the time of the "Great Persecution" ("Radpa Rabba" in Aramaic.)
In the CoE - there is only one persecution which is known by that name. In the year 340 A.D. the Persian king Shapur informed church leaders they must pay the taxes they collect from Christians. When the Patriarch Shimon bar-Sabbae refused, he was summoned to the court and given a final chance to agree. He again refused saying: "I am no tax-collector but a shepherd of the Lord???s flock." The Great Persecution began. On Good Friday, April 17 341 A.D., he and about 100 other Christians, including many clergy and some monks and nuns, were put to death. This slaughter lasted for almost 60 years. ( see http://www.oxuscom.com/timeline.htm )
So this means that the Khabouris is a copy of a mid-late fourth century manuscript (not 2nd-century, unfortunately.)
As for the Peshitta OT - this version is quite different and has an independent history from the Peshitta NT. The earliest reference to any bible being called by the name "Peshitta" is the 9th-century historian Moses bar-Kepha. He used the name to distinguish these versions from other Aramaic versions. The name literally means "straight" (as opposed to "crooked~perverted"), which is figuratively speaking - "true."
For references to the origin of the Peshitta OT - see this article in the Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society: (footnote #5 on page 3): http://www.jaas.org/edocs/v12n1/JohnJoseph.pdf
Yes, I have a complete copy of the Khabouris manuscript. It is identical to the modern printed copies of the Peshitta. It is a complete text of all of the 22 books of the Peshitta canon, and the manuscript itself is carbon-dated to the 11th century. In the colophon the scribe states that he was commissioned by his bishop to copy the original because it was disintegrating. He stated that the original dated to the time of the "Great Persecution" ("Radpa Rabba" in Aramaic.)
In the CoE - there is only one persecution which is known by that name. In the year 340 A.D. the Persian king Shapur informed church leaders they must pay the taxes they collect from Christians. When the Patriarch Shimon bar-Sabbae refused, he was summoned to the court and given a final chance to agree. He again refused saying: "I am no tax-collector but a shepherd of the Lord???s flock." The Great Persecution began. On Good Friday, April 17 341 A.D., he and about 100 other Christians, including many clergy and some monks and nuns, were put to death. This slaughter lasted for almost 60 years. ( see http://www.oxuscom.com/timeline.htm )
So this means that the Khabouris is a copy of a mid-late fourth century manuscript (not 2nd-century, unfortunately.)
As for the Peshitta OT - this version is quite different and has an independent history from the Peshitta NT. The earliest reference to any bible being called by the name "Peshitta" is the 9th-century historian Moses bar-Kepha. He used the name to distinguish these versions from other Aramaic versions. The name literally means "straight" (as opposed to "crooked~perverted"), which is figuratively speaking - "true."
For references to the origin of the Peshitta OT - see this article in the Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society: (footnote #5 on page 3): http://www.jaas.org/edocs/v12n1/JohnJoseph.pdf
+Shamasha Paul bar-Shimun de'Beth-Younan
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