The Antioch Bible: Jeremiah According to the Syriac Peshitta Version With English Translation (Syriac and English Edition) - Hardcover

Gillian Greenberg; Donald Walter; Joseph Bali; George Kiraz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1611438926 ISBN 13: 9781611438925

Publisher: Gorgias Pr Llc, 2013

Synopsis

This volume is part of a series of English translations of the Peshitta, the Syriac translation of the Hebrew Bible. It is the work of an international team of scholars. Greenberg and Walter have translated the text. Kiraz has prepared the Syriac text in the west Syriac script, fully vocalized and pointed. The translation and the Syriac text are presented on facing pages so that both can be studied together. Extensive annotations give either literal, or alternative, translations to many verses. There are also three Addenda, giving examples of mistranslation from the original Hebrew into Syriac, examples of apparent corruption of the Syriac text which occurred prior to our extant manuscripts, and a discussion of the Syriac translation of many passages of particularly difficult Hebrew. There are additionally three Appendices: the first compares the versification of the Syriac text used here, printed in Mosul by the Dominicans in the nineteenth century, with that of manuscript 7a1 as edited and used as the basic text of the Leiden Peshitta edition of Jeremiah. A second compares the variants of Mosul with Leiden and indicates when its variants lack any support from ancient manuscripts. A third gives an overview of the rendering of Hebrew names into Syriac. This publication caters for all readers, those who want to read the text in English, those who want to improve their grasp of Syriac by reading the original language along with a translation, and those who want the opportunity to read a fully vocalized Syriac text.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gorgias Pr Llc
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1611438926
• ISBN 13: 9781611438925
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300