01-20-2008, 05:23 PM
Shlama Ya'aqub,
The mss. are mostly Western Peshitto. There are at least 9 Eastern mss. used among them: 7 in the Gospels and 2 or 3 in Paul's epistles.
Since the majority of mss. collated were Western, and the editors Gwilliam, Pusey, Pinkerton and Gwynn generally followed the majority readings,
the resulting text is the Western Peshitto. All post 1920 editions seem to have remained the same as the 1920 edition.
To my knowledge, there has never been a collation of Eastern mss. to produce a critical Eastern edition. All that would be required are 4 or 5 complete
Eastern mss. and an editor with a lot of time and patience, and we could have a critical Eastern Peshitta edition.
The West-East differences are generally insignificant, apart from the Western 5 books and the Pericope de Adultera.
Dave
The mss. are mostly Western Peshitto. There are at least 9 Eastern mss. used among them: 7 in the Gospels and 2 or 3 in Paul's epistles.
Since the majority of mss. collated were Western, and the editors Gwilliam, Pusey, Pinkerton and Gwynn generally followed the majority readings,
the resulting text is the Western Peshitto. All post 1920 editions seem to have remained the same as the 1920 edition.
To my knowledge, there has never been a collation of Eastern mss. to produce a critical Eastern edition. All that would be required are 4 or 5 complete
Eastern mss. and an editor with a lot of time and patience, and we could have a critical Eastern Peshitta edition.
The West-East differences are generally insignificant, apart from the Western 5 books and the Pericope de Adultera.
Dave