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Western Five
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Shlama Akhi Stephen,

Stephen Silver Wrote:This at first appears to be only the Apocalypse (Book of Revelation) but it also contains II Peter, II John, III John and Jude. Only a close study will show whether it is Harklean or some other translation from the Greek.

It seems to be a relatively modern version made by a "Caspar", an Indian from the Malabar region. In 1599, Elias Hutter supplied these western five books in his Polyglot New Testament (http://www.ilab.org/db/book1462_15125.html). In 1627, Louis de Dieu published this work at the University of Leyden from a manuscript of Hutter's work that was bequeathed to the university by Josephi Scaligeri, whose name appears in the front page of this book.

Notice at the end of the translation of Revelation, he includes the normal Syriac beseeching for prayers for the author and includes the name of the region of "Hinduaye" where he lived ("Hanravitarum", mistakenly translated in Latin), which of course means the land of the "Hindus."

See:

http://books.google.com/books?id=HYFJAAA...#PPA280,M1

Where some further theories are presented. For instance, some were of the opinion that it was Philoxenian before Thomas of Harkel revised it, others feel otherwise. Others still conjectured that it was made by Mar Abba the Great, Patriarch of the Church of the East during the 6th century (although that's the most doubtful theory.)

Interesting.

+Shamasha Paul
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Western Five - by Stephen Silver - 08-02-2008, 06:07 PM
Re: Western Five - by Paul Younan - 08-03-2008, 04:25 AM
Re: Western Five - by Stephen Silver - 08-05-2008, 01:36 AM
Re: Western Five - by Paul Younan - 08-05-2008, 03:00 AM

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