Why did Rabulla make his own Aramaic gospels?

[Paul Younan]

Shlama Akhi,

I'm surprised you didn't find paragraph #16 clear?

The Monophysites did not like the Peshitta because it contained readings that they thought lended support to their theological opponents. Consequently, many of them (like Philoxenus and Thomas of Harkel) made their own versions after appealing to some Greek version or another.

I submit the same was true for Rabbula - who was a rabid Monophysite and maniac.

The PeshittO did not exist at the time of Rabbula. It was made later after the SOC rejected his OS garbage. By that time, they also adopted Thomas of Harkel's translation of the 5 disputed books and altered some other passages of the PeshittA - and, walla, you have the western textual transmission called PeshittO. But, again, that was after Rabbula was long gone.

Before Rabbula's, these versions existed:

(1) PeshittA
(2) Diatesseron (compiled Peshitta Gospels)
(3) All the various Greek versions and families

After Rabbula's time, these versions existed:

(1) PeshittA
(2) Diatesseron (compiled Peshitta Gospels)
(3) All the various Greek versions and families
(4) Old Scratch (Evangelion de Mapherreshe), his own hybrid PeshittA/Bezan Greek text

After Philoxenus and Thomas of Harkel, these versions existed:

(1) PeshittA
(2) Diatesseron (compiled Peshitta Gospels) - only in Persia because Rabbula and Theodoret destroyed all the copies in their areas
(3) All the various Greek versions and families
(4) Old Scratch (Evangelion de Mapherreshe), his own hybrid PeshittA/Bezan Greek text
(5) Harclean (Thomas of Harkel's text)
(6) Philoxenian (Philoxenus' revision of the Harclean)
(7) PeshittO - a revised PeshittA with the 5 disputed books added from the Harclean translation of the Greek

Rabbula did not have access to the PeshittO because it simply did not exist at his time.