04-24-2013, 04:02 AM
Thirdwoe Wrote::
He sent me a free PDF copy, havent looked it over just yet. I read the intro to it though, and you can see right there his belief that the Eastern Peshitta NT is a corruption, and not the Western Peshitto version, which he thinks is the original God inspired New Testament.
He uses the CAL Peshitta OT text as his base, but mixes it with some other Aramaic MS texts where he feels has the right/best reading.
Not sure where as yet. If you read the intro, you can see that David likes to think that what he does in his translations is along the lines of restoring the Original Bible text, so he goes long on trying to prove that his version's source texts are the special ones, where others all fail the test in some way, so his translations are the good ones. I feel he needs to feel this way about it, in order to make it worth the trip. Just an observation, based on reading his statements and talking with him online.
But, it's good to see the text, in any fashion, seeing the light of day in English, since all we have had till now is Lamsa's version. I think Andrew Roth is at work on his POT version as well...and he better make sure he does it the right way too, or Dave will accuse him again of stealing and lying... <!-- s--><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="
One day it seems, Dukhrana.com will have the Peshitta OT up online, so we can check for our self. We can now though, at CAL, but it's a bit troublesome...
Blessings,
Chuck
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Shlama,
both endeavors are HUGE and i hope they render fine end-products for the sake of all believers.
CAL does show variant readings for the Peshitta AN"K, so i'd be interested in knowing how the specific readings were chosen, etc.. for me personally, i will stick with the Hebrew Masoretic text foremost, and still compare with the DSS as available, the Peshitta AN"K, and the targums, where available.
Chayim b'Moshiach,
Jeremy