11-09-2012, 03:03 AM
Thirdwoe Wrote::I think we both know this very well, but other than the vowel pointing, spelling variations, and the big 17 places you have in the other thread, I don't think there is much difference (and less so in English since spelling variations and vowel pointing don't come though).
The Khabouris is an Eastern NT, the UBS is a critical text of a number of Western "Peshitto" versions, which in its text varies in those 17 places I've shown, that I have seen. There are most likely more, and I ll show them there when/if I find them.
Roth's version has 1 western reading and perhaps more, I haven?t looked over the whole NT yet, but plan to, plus he has the Western 5 which are of the Peshitto version. I don't really have a problem with that 1 reading or the W5, but they are not and were never part of the Eastern Aramaic NT.
And the term "Peshitta" came into use in the 900s A.D. by the western Churches....and really applied to the text that they were using...later the term "Peshitto" was used to differentiate the two versions...the Peshitto applying to the Western and Peshitta applying to the Eastern...But really, The Eastern Text is simply The Aramaic New Testament Scriptures, as passed down from the Apostles, while the other is an edited version of it, to bring it's text closer in line with what was found in the Greek copies in use by the Wester Syiac groups, who used the original Aramaic NT. They brought in various versions, whereas the Eastern NT Text, as witnessed by Khabouris has stayed the same.
Anyway, I'll have to check it myself when I get home, but the Matthew 21:4 passage is interesting because I thought Paul was translating from the Peshitta, not the UBS.