06-09-2012, 02:54 PM
Shlama Akhay,
It went great, thanks for asking. I spent 2 hours with His Grace Mar Awa, along with two other bishops (the newly ordained bishop for Chicago/Eastern US, His Grace Mar Paulus, and also His Grace Mar Narsai of Tehran, Iran.) We spoke at length about the project and the next steps. In the short term, we are interviewing people with various abilities who would like to participate in some capacity.
There will be three main teams: (a) the collators/proofreaders of the primary Aramaic text, (b) the translators and © the English editors.
Longer term, after the teams are set, we will be producing an English-only translation with study notes and CoE-specific patristics for reference. We may include the Aramaic or an Interlinear as an addendum or a different volume perhaps.
His Grace Mar Awa's goal is to provide the English reader with a study bible akin to the Orthodox Study Bible, but of course drawn from the Aramaic sources rather than the Greek.
While our initial goal is to translate the New Testament, we will in the future also work on the Old Testament from the important Peshitta translation.
We hope to use the existing interlinear on this site as a basis for the ongoing work. That means there will likely be revisions and/or corrections to this interlinear as they are discovered or suggested.
Please let me know if you or anyone you know would like to be involved in this historic project.
Bless, oh my Lord (Barikh Mar),
+Shamasha
It went great, thanks for asking. I spent 2 hours with His Grace Mar Awa, along with two other bishops (the newly ordained bishop for Chicago/Eastern US, His Grace Mar Paulus, and also His Grace Mar Narsai of Tehran, Iran.) We spoke at length about the project and the next steps. In the short term, we are interviewing people with various abilities who would like to participate in some capacity.
There will be three main teams: (a) the collators/proofreaders of the primary Aramaic text, (b) the translators and © the English editors.
Longer term, after the teams are set, we will be producing an English-only translation with study notes and CoE-specific patristics for reference. We may include the Aramaic or an Interlinear as an addendum or a different volume perhaps.
His Grace Mar Awa's goal is to provide the English reader with a study bible akin to the Orthodox Study Bible, but of course drawn from the Aramaic sources rather than the Greek.
While our initial goal is to translate the New Testament, we will in the future also work on the Old Testament from the important Peshitta translation.
We hope to use the existing interlinear on this site as a basis for the ongoing work. That means there will likely be revisions and/or corrections to this interlinear as they are discovered or suggested.
Please let me know if you or anyone you know would like to be involved in this historic project.
Bless, oh my Lord (Barikh Mar),
+Shamasha