11-10-2008, 05:06 AM
November 9, 2008
Dear Andrew
In reading your new book, ARAMAIC ENGLISH NEW TESTAMENT (Netzari Press, 2008), I need some help from you in understanding better the text that you used for the Western 5 and Revelation in particular. You mention the 1890 Mosul edition and the Crawford text. Also, the British and Foreign Bible Society added the Western Five to the 1905 Peshitta text in 1920, and has been republishing that text several times. I have a copy published in 1950. They state in their Preface that the Revelation text was based on "a manuscript formerly in the possession of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres". They also state that the "text of the four Epistles follows the Philoxenian Version".
I think that the version of the "Peshitta" in the ONLINE BIBLE" on the internet is the same as the 1920 British and Foreign Bible Society version which is really the Western Peshitto. Also, I think that the 1905 British and Foreign Bible Society text is the Western Peshitto version of the 22 books and does not match the Eastern text of the Peshitta.
I would very much appreciate your help in clearing up my confusion about the Western 5 texts and which texts you have printed in your book. Did you use the Mosul edition of Revelation? Is that the so-called Philoxenian Version of Revelation? I see that you have many comments about the Crawford version in which you indicate that you have contrasted it.
Sincerely,
Otto
Dear Andrew
In reading your new book, ARAMAIC ENGLISH NEW TESTAMENT (Netzari Press, 2008), I need some help from you in understanding better the text that you used for the Western 5 and Revelation in particular. You mention the 1890 Mosul edition and the Crawford text. Also, the British and Foreign Bible Society added the Western Five to the 1905 Peshitta text in 1920, and has been republishing that text several times. I have a copy published in 1950. They state in their Preface that the Revelation text was based on "a manuscript formerly in the possession of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres". They also state that the "text of the four Epistles follows the Philoxenian Version".
I think that the version of the "Peshitta" in the ONLINE BIBLE" on the internet is the same as the 1920 British and Foreign Bible Society version which is really the Western Peshitto. Also, I think that the 1905 British and Foreign Bible Society text is the Western Peshitto version of the 22 books and does not match the Eastern text of the Peshitta.
I would very much appreciate your help in clearing up my confusion about the Western 5 texts and which texts you have printed in your book. Did you use the Mosul edition of Revelation? Is that the so-called Philoxenian Version of Revelation? I see that you have many comments about the Crawford version in which you indicate that you have contrasted it.
Sincerely,
Otto