The "Isaiah the prophet" from Mark's account

[Stephen Silver]

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ok, here is my first step:

Byzantine text type, including Majority text and critical editions of TR (Erasmus, Elizer, Stephanus, Schrinver, etc.) read "in the prophets".

Eclectic text (WH, NA, UBS), and then Peshitto and Peshitta read "Isaiah the prophet".

Any speculation why this discrepancy is in the aramaic Mark 1:2? <!-- s:eh: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/eh.gif" alt=":eh:" title="Eh" /><!-- s:eh: --> <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/huh.gif" alt="" title="Huh" /><!-- s --> <!-- s:dontgetit: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/dontgetit.gif" alt=":dontgetit:" title="Dont Get It" /><!-- s:dontgetit: -->

Could Peshitta be derived from the same proto-source as the Critical text?

Shlama Draw Closer:
The Peshitta often agrees with some of the older Greek manuscripts and this case it does. The Majorty text and the TR as you probably already know are a collage of various manuscripts, many of which do not agree verbatim, while the Peshitta is the original text from which all of these individual texts are copied and interpreted. Some of the Greek texts are more liberal in their interpretation as the various scribes took licence and liberty to make changes. This was often done to fall in line with the dogma's of the Roman Church. The Peshitta is the straight goods from which all Greek texts find their origin, by different scribes, in different places and at different time periods.

Shlama.
Stephen Silver