02-10-2008, 06:13 PM
abudar2000 Wrote:My understanding of the Peshitta OT was that it was produced prior to the Christian era, and based on a proto-Masoretic Text. It seems to be the one that was most favoured by the Syriac-Aramaic speaking community (msheeHoye), and eventually ended up being the OT Text of the Peshitta.
Shlama,
True. Paul Younan attests to this fact in a comment from the archives where he said:
Quote:The LXX (and Peshitta OT) was made from a Hebrew original that differed in places from the modern Masoretic. The Masoretic is a late work, far surpassed in age by the LXX and the Peshitta OT.
The Peshitta Tanakh is a JEWISH work, not a Christian work! ...
It's a JEWISH work.
The Peshitta Tanakh is a Targum, just like any other Jewish Aramaic Targum (Onkelos, Yonathan, etc.) It was a Targum in the Aramaic dialect of the hundreds of thousands of Mesopotamian Jews in modern-day Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran. (who stayed behind in the Babylonian Captivity). Just because Christians later adopted it as their own, does not mean it is a "Christian work"! Christians later adopted the Peshitta NT as well, which also was a Jewish work originally!
and that the Church of the East
Quote:uses the Peshitta OT which it inherited from Babylonian Jewry.