10-27-2012, 03:15 PM
Yes it's the text and translation.
The price isn't surprising cause the Greek primacy centric NT scholarship world isn't too interested in funding Aramaic studies.
The NT is definitely the western text (note the Serto script). But still, it's about time we got a scholarly translation, the variants from the eastern text will probably be documented in the footnotes. The Peshitta Institute at Leiden University in the Netherlands is still working on their annotated translation (also of the entire Peshitta Bible) called "The Bible of Edessa". I expect them to use the western NT text as well, but still looking forward to that in the coming years:
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Now the COE just needs to translate their text.
The price isn't surprising cause the Greek primacy centric NT scholarship world isn't too interested in funding Aramaic studies.
The NT is definitely the western text (note the Serto script). But still, it's about time we got a scholarly translation, the variants from the eastern text will probably be documented in the footnotes. The Peshitta Institute at Leiden University in the Netherlands is still working on their annotated translation (also of the entire Peshitta Bible) called "The Bible of Edessa". I expect them to use the western NT text as well, but still looking forward to that in the coming years:
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Now the COE just needs to translate their text.