Errors in the Peshitta OT from the Leiden instittute.

[Dave]

As can be seen from the gospels, the Peshitta is not a new translation, but a revision of the Old Syriac, bringing it more closely into line with the Greek; for this purpose a Greek ms (or mss) with an early form of the Byzantine text was evidently used. The revision must have been completed in the early decades of the 5th century and it was propagated very effectively, for it soon replaced its earlier rivals. Although the famous bishop of Edessa Rabbula (died 435) may well have had a hand in propagating the revised text, he cannot have undertaken the revision himself (as Burkitt proposed), for there is evidence for ???revised??? readings in existence before his time. It is now recognized that the process of revision must have taken place over an extended period (each of the two Old Syriac mss indeed already show traces of such revision here and there on the basis of the Greek).

Here, let me put some salt on the wound:

Freedman, David Noel, ed., The Anchor Bible Dictionary, (New York: Doubleday) 1997, 1992.

See that Dave, this is not the 1800's here, we are talking 1997, less than 10 years ago, this is very recent scholarship.