04-23-2004, 06:12 AM
Hehe, Yuri is taking quite a few shots across the bow there. Let me see if I can turn the attention to something else.
I have been doing some research as The Lord has led me lately on the western text. Some interesting things surfaced.
I have a copy of Ephraims commentary on Tatians Harmony. This is the "Syriac" version with the few missing parts from the Armenian. His biblical quotes are a mix of OS and Peshitta. They are neither dominant here, the mix is even. Interesting!
Also, From the earliest church father up to around the 4th century, almost all of the church fathers were quoting the Western style text, not the Majority/Received text. Interesting.
Almost all your older type texts have these "Western" readings mixed in!
Everything points to something happening around the 4th century. For the most part, the received text relates to the Peshitta. It is not hard to see the likeness.
What I would like to know is how this "condensed" version came about. If all the quotations from multiple church fathers are distinctly Western, then what happened? This would also point to one of the reasons why the scholar community as a whole would question the Peshitta, no?
(Paul, I'm over in Singapore! I'll fly over to Diego Garcia tonight, finally. I've been flying all week here).
I have been doing some research as The Lord has led me lately on the western text. Some interesting things surfaced.
I have a copy of Ephraims commentary on Tatians Harmony. This is the "Syriac" version with the few missing parts from the Armenian. His biblical quotes are a mix of OS and Peshitta. They are neither dominant here, the mix is even. Interesting!
Also, From the earliest church father up to around the 4th century, almost all of the church fathers were quoting the Western style text, not the Majority/Received text. Interesting.
Almost all your older type texts have these "Western" readings mixed in!
Everything points to something happening around the 4th century. For the most part, the received text relates to the Peshitta. It is not hard to see the likeness.
What I would like to know is how this "condensed" version came about. If all the quotations from multiple church fathers are distinctly Western, then what happened? This would also point to one of the reasons why the scholar community as a whole would question the Peshitta, no?
(Paul, I'm over in Singapore! I'll fly over to Diego Garcia tonight, finally. I've been flying all week here).