Language and Textual History of the Syriac Bible

Collected Studies

Jan Joosten

• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Year: 2013
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781463234959
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Reference

The Syriac Bible is a fascinating field to which too little research has been devoted. In the present volume, Jan Joosten gathers a number of pilot studies, published in various journals and collective volumes, shedding light on the Syriac Old Testament, New Testament, and the relation between them. A number of studies advance the claim that the Old Syriac and Peshitta gospels preserve echoes of an Aramaic gospel tradition that gives independent access to the earliest, oral traditions on the life and teaching of Jesus.

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Old Testament Peshitta
• General
• La Peshitta de l’Ancien Testament dans la recherche récente
• Language
• The Use of some Particles in the Old Testament Peshitta
• Greek and Latin Words in the Peshitta Pentateuch First Soundings
• Materials for a Linguistic Approach to the Old Testament Peshitta
• The Peshitta and other Translations of the Hebrew Bible
• Doublet translations in Peshitta Proverbs
• Greek Words shared by the Peshitta and Targums to the Pentateuch
• The Use of the Peshitta in Textual Criticism
• 1 Sam xvi 6, 7 in the Peshitta Version
• The Hebrew and Syriac text of Deut 1:44
• The Old Testament Peshitta in the Syriac New Testament
• The Old Testament in the New; The Syriac Versions of the New Testament as a Witness to the Text of the Old Testament Peshitta
• Syriac Gospels
• West Aramaic Elements in the Syriac Gospel Version
• West Aramaic Elements in the Old Syriac and Peshitta Gospels
• Two West Aramaic Elements in the Old Syriac and Peshitta Gospels
• West Aramaic Elements in the Syriac Gospels: Methodological Considerations
• « Le Père envoie le Fils »: La provenance occidentale d’une locution syriaque
• The Aramaic Tradition of the Gospels and the Syriac Gospels
• La tradition syriaque des Évangiles et la question du « substrat araméén »
• The Text of Matt 13:21a and Parallels in the Syriac Tradition
• The Syriac Versions of the Gospels and the Old Testament Peshitta
• The Old Testament Quotations in the Old Syriac and Peshitta Gospels: a Contribution to the Study of the Diatessaron
• Tatian’s Diatessaron and The Old Testament Peshitta
• Miscellanea
• Odes de Salomon 7,3a Obervations sur un hellénisme dans le texte syriaque
• Éléments d’araméen occidental dans la version syriaque de Ben Sira
• Sources
• Index of Biblical References
• Index of Syriac Words