10-11-2011, 11:53 PM
gbausc Wrote:Even the Eastern church has the Western five books in their Eastern NT (1886 edition & 1986 edition) , with notes to the effect that the Peshitta mss. do not contain those books, but other ancient mss. do have them.
Shlama Akhi Dave,
One small correction here. If by the "Eastern Church", you mean the Church of the East, then the statement above is incorrect and should be clarified. The printed editions from 1886 and 1986 were, in fact, produced by the Syriac Catholic Church along with the Chaldean Catholic Church, both of whom regard these books as fully canonical.
This work is popularly known as the "Mosul Edition", as the Patriarchate of the Chaldean Church resided in Mosul, Iraq at the time. This edition was published 1888-1892 by Clement Joseph David (Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Damascus) and by Mar Georges Ebed-Iesu Khayyath (Chaldean Patriarch in Mosul) for the Dominican (Roman Catholic) mission.
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I know of no printed edition of the Peshitta, by the Church of the East, which has the five "Western" books.
+Shamasha