On the influence of the Septuagint on the Peshitta

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: April 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

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WHAT ARE WE DOING when we compare the Peshitta to the Masoretic Text? E. G. Mathews, Jr., raises this fundamental question in a recent review of a book of mine.1 Mathews states that

In evaluating a translation of a biblical work one must be reasonably sure of dealing with a translated text and of having a reasonably close idea of its immediate Vorlage. In the application of her model to the Peshitta Book of Job, S[zpek] compares the Syriac text of Job prepared by L. G. Rignell (The Old Testament in Syriac according to the Peshitta Version 2/la: Job [ed. the Peshitta ...

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