Peshitta New Testament

Peshitta New Testament — Murdock — Section 3

The Syriac text followed in the first part of this translation, was that of the beautiful edition printed by the British and Foreign Bible Society, London, 1816, 4to., whieli was prepared for the press, as far as the Acts of the Apostles, by the late Rev. Claudius Buchanan, D.D., Author of " Christian Researches," " Star in the East," &c., and the remainder by the Rev. Samuel Lee, D.D., Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, England. The latter part of the translation was made from the second edition of the same Bible Society, London, 1826, 4to. ; but the text of Leusden and Schaafs edition, Leyden, 1717, was everywhere consulted, and much use was made of their Latin translation of it. The pocket edition of Gutbir, Hamburgh, 1664, 12mo., was also generally con- sulted. The Lexicons constantly used throughout, were the Lexicon Syriacum Concordantiale in Nov. Testamentum of Charles Schaaf, Leyden, 1717, 4to. ; the Lexicon Syriacum of Edmund Castell, revised and enlarged by J, D. Michaelis, Gottingen, 1788, 4to. ; and the small Lex- icon Syriacum in Nov. Testamentum of Giles Gutbir, bound up with his Syriac New Testament. The Grammars relied upon were, the elaborate Grammaticoe Syriacae Libri iii. of Andr. Theoph. Hoffmann, Philos. et Theol, Doctor, Halle, 1827, 4to. ; and the Elementarlehre der syrischen Sprachc, by Prof Fred. Uhlemann, Berlin, 1829, 8vo. In this translation, the Books of the New Testament are divided into Paragraphs, accordmg to the sense ; just as in Campbell's translation of the Four Gospels, and in the Greek Testaments of Bengel, Gricsbach, Knapp, and others. The common divisions into Chapters and Verses arc noted in the margin, and the Verses are also put in parentheses in the middle of the lines. For the benefit of those who have some knowledge of the Syriac language, the more important words are frequently placed in the side margin, with references to the corresponding words in the transla- tion. Deviations of the Syriac text from the Greek, and also the suscep- tibilities of the Syriac words, or phrases, of a diflTerent rendering from that PREFACE. vii