Charles — Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha Vol. I — Section 704
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Work: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament — Vol. I
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hsu_f2a6a4db-e441-4a11-9c6d-c3844ba0faf2This identity belongs to this edition’s reading. Cross-witness correspondence awaits review.
R. H. Charles ed. 1913, Vol. I
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This is a translation of the Peshitta (Syriac Vulgate). ‘The translator’, says Smend, ‘ was not concerned to offer a careful translation of his copy; he desired rather to present an elegantly- written Arabic book.’ His translation is, therefore, throughout a free one, and he inserts additions of his own. The text, or that of the MS. from which it was made, has been influenced by the Greek. But the manifold /acwae of the Syriac version recur in the Arabic. The version is of but small value. §$ 6. AUTHORSHIP AND DATE. . ἢ i. The name and personality of the author. In the MSS. of the Greek…
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- R. H. Charles, ed., 1913 — Internet Archive
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- Public-domain-era 1913 edition; unrestricted Internet Archive derivative required
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- English
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