Debunking another Trimmism

[Paul Younan]

Shlama Akhi Abudar,

breekh ramsho oh Paul,

Aside from the added 5 books, and the few added passages, the Peshitta and Peshitto are virtually identical. In the Peshitto, the added passage are indicated in brackets, so that we known that they don't belong to the original Peshitto.

taybutho dmoryo 'amokh habr Paul,
keefa-moroon

I agree. What Yuri calls "variants" are actually little misspellings or other scribal errors between the eastern and western textual tradition. There are very few real "variants" between the two traditions, at least in the Greek "sense" of "variants" where they insert an entirely fabricated story (the woman caught in adultery!)

But if Yuri wants to nit-pick about spelling variations and such, then of couse there will be differences because the two textual traditions were seperated for many centuries. And especially because the western tradition lived under the domination and persecution by the Byzantine Greek church - then it is to be expected that certain pressures were applied on them that were not applied on the CoE because it lived as a minority under a pagan Persian government, a government which could care less about Christian scriptures and standardizing them to the "official version" of the empire.

See what I mean? The Encyclopedia Britannica quote I gave is very important, because I totally agree that the isolation of the eastern textual tradition kept dirty hands out of the text. It kept the text more "original."