08-24-2014, 04:27 AM
Shamasha (Deacon) Paul Younan's interlinear is very close to the text he uses there, it being a word for word rendering. Although, he has used the UBS text as his source, he has given the Eastern readings where there is a major difference in the texts...and this is rare, but a few are important.
If you can afford her interlinear volumes, I would get them, as well as her other helps which are geared for them, as they are much more detailed than the The Way's edition....which she also had worked on. You will find that they are very much the same, but she has given her own choices in her's, so they are not word for word in every place, though I have found the content to be very much the same.
She told me personally, after studying Lamsa's version carefully over the years, and becoming more informed about the actual wording of the Aramaic NT, she realized that it could be done much more accurately. I can confirm that she was right, and so far as I have seen, her version is indeed much closer to the actual wording and content of The Aramaic NT.
Lamsa's version isn't always literal, but often he gives his interpretation, and sometime the translation will follow that of the KJV, rather than what The Peshitta text has. He also has a mix of the Western Peshitto readings, with the Eastern Peshitta NT text, so it isn't strictly an Eastern Aramaic Text, as is claimed on the cover. His also, like Magiera's has the Western Five, books, which were never part of The Peshitta NT.
The world has yet to see a printed edition of a real Peshitta NT, in English translation, rendered from the actual Peshitta (Eastern) manuscripts themselves. But in a few years, this will not be the case, as there are a few versions in the works, and hopefully an Official Church of the East edition, which we have heard is planned... The Peshitto (Western) manuscripts were compromised, in various places, and have added the 5 books to the Aramaic NT text, which were never part of the Original Aramaic form of the NT.
Mr. Bauscher's version is very close to the text he used (the UBS printed Peshitto version), as he started out with it being an interlinear, then edited that work into a flowing translation. It's not the Peshitta though, but the later Western version of it's text, with the added 5 books translated from the Greek version.
Shlama,
Chuck
If you can afford her interlinear volumes, I would get them, as well as her other helps which are geared for them, as they are much more detailed than the The Way's edition....which she also had worked on. You will find that they are very much the same, but she has given her own choices in her's, so they are not word for word in every place, though I have found the content to be very much the same.
She told me personally, after studying Lamsa's version carefully over the years, and becoming more informed about the actual wording of the Aramaic NT, she realized that it could be done much more accurately. I can confirm that she was right, and so far as I have seen, her version is indeed much closer to the actual wording and content of The Aramaic NT.
Lamsa's version isn't always literal, but often he gives his interpretation, and sometime the translation will follow that of the KJV, rather than what The Peshitta text has. He also has a mix of the Western Peshitto readings, with the Eastern Peshitta NT text, so it isn't strictly an Eastern Aramaic Text, as is claimed on the cover. His also, like Magiera's has the Western Five, books, which were never part of The Peshitta NT.
The world has yet to see a printed edition of a real Peshitta NT, in English translation, rendered from the actual Peshitta (Eastern) manuscripts themselves. But in a few years, this will not be the case, as there are a few versions in the works, and hopefully an Official Church of the East edition, which we have heard is planned... The Peshitto (Western) manuscripts were compromised, in various places, and have added the 5 books to the Aramaic NT text, which were never part of the Original Aramaic form of the NT.
Mr. Bauscher's version is very close to the text he used (the UBS printed Peshitto version), as he started out with it being an interlinear, then edited that work into a flowing translation. It's not the Peshitta though, but the later Western version of it's text, with the added 5 books translated from the Greek version.
Shlama,
Chuck