01-24-2008, 04:09 PM
For the 22 books of the Peshitta canon, does anyone have a definite list of actual differences between "the" (an) Eastern text and a Western text? Is the 1905 BFBS edition a Western text? Is the Khabouris manuscript an Eastern text, and is it considered to be a reliable? If so, then judging from Stephen Silver's transcription of the Khabouris manuscript, it is difficult to see any differences of much consequence, if you exclude minor differences such as split words (e.g. barnasha vs. bar anasha), proclitics which are optional, etc. These are in line with the sort of differences you find between Hebrew manuscripts of the Tanakh, for instance. Gwilliam's Critical Edition of the Gospels compares lots of manuscripts, but most of those are Western manuscripts.
- Ewan MacLeod
- Ewan MacLeod