09-29-2004, 05:09 AM
Before I go to bed. I started reading some of the online Bethmardutho jounals. On of them kind of is on the topic.
"The Background
[1] This re-examination of ???Codex Phillipps 1388???1 resumes the work of Arthur Allgeier, who seventy years ago was the first to introduce this 5th/6th-century Gospel manuscript2 (held at the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin) to scholarly discussion3. Collating the codex with the text of the Peshitta Gospels published by E. Ph. Pusey and G. H. Gwilliam in 1901, Allgeier???s intention was to point to its significance for the history of the Peshitta text. According to him, ???Codex Phillipps??? is the only known Peshitta manuscript which shares a significant number of readings with the ???Old Syriac??? Gospel text, thus attesting a transition stage between the ???Old Syriac??? and the Peshitta. Discussing only two sample passages (Jn xiii.17 and Jn xviii.16) to set out this view in some detail, Allgeier???s primary concern was to resume the question of a revisional history of the Peshitta Gospels, which was answered in the negative by G. H. Gwilliam in an article of 18914. But meanwhile the reopening of this question had been effected by the discovery (1892) and successive publication (1894, 1896, 1910) of the ???Old Syriac??? Sinaitic manuscript, by the improved republication of the ???Old Syriac??? Curetonian manuscript by F.C. Burkitt (1904), and by Gwilliam???s splendid edition of the Peshitta Gospels (1901). All these publications had created new conditions for the discussion about the ???Old Syriac??? Gospels5 and about the early Peshitta text. Allgeier continued this line to add further manuscript evidence by introducing ???Codex Phillipps???.
[2] In the history of research attention was paid to the codex during the re-examination of F.C. Burkitt???s influential hypothesis6 on the origin of the Peshitta text by A. V????bus, which finally resulted in a modification of this hypothesis by M. Black."
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"The Background
[1] This re-examination of ???Codex Phillipps 1388???1 resumes the work of Arthur Allgeier, who seventy years ago was the first to introduce this 5th/6th-century Gospel manuscript2 (held at the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin) to scholarly discussion3. Collating the codex with the text of the Peshitta Gospels published by E. Ph. Pusey and G. H. Gwilliam in 1901, Allgeier???s intention was to point to its significance for the history of the Peshitta text. According to him, ???Codex Phillipps??? is the only known Peshitta manuscript which shares a significant number of readings with the ???Old Syriac??? Gospel text, thus attesting a transition stage between the ???Old Syriac??? and the Peshitta. Discussing only two sample passages (Jn xiii.17 and Jn xviii.16) to set out this view in some detail, Allgeier???s primary concern was to resume the question of a revisional history of the Peshitta Gospels, which was answered in the negative by G. H. Gwilliam in an article of 18914. But meanwhile the reopening of this question had been effected by the discovery (1892) and successive publication (1894, 1896, 1910) of the ???Old Syriac??? Sinaitic manuscript, by the improved republication of the ???Old Syriac??? Curetonian manuscript by F.C. Burkitt (1904), and by Gwilliam???s splendid edition of the Peshitta Gospels (1901). All these publications had created new conditions for the discussion about the ???Old Syriac??? Gospels5 and about the early Peshitta text. Allgeier continued this line to add further manuscript evidence by introducing ???Codex Phillipps???.
[2] In the history of research attention was paid to the codex during the re-examination of F.C. Burkitt???s influential hypothesis6 on the origin of the Peshitta text by A. V????bus, which finally resulted in a modification of this hypothesis by M. Black."
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