The Peshitta of Daniel

by Richard A. Taylor

Publisher:

Brill

, 1994

Overview

The Peshitta of Daniel sets forth an analysis of the Syriac text of the Book of Daniel. It discusses the relationship of the Peshitta text of Daniel to the Hebrew/Aramaic text of this portion of Scripture, and its relationship to the Old Greek and Theodotionic versions as well. Making use of the Leiden edition of the Syriac text, it seeks to evaluate the text-critical value of the Peshitta of Daniel and describes various translation techniques employed in the Peshitta of Daniel and evaluates its qualities as a translation.

This volume will be of particular interest to Syricists, specialists in the Syriac Bible (or other early versions of the Bible), students of the Book of Daniel, and Old Testament textual critics.

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Key Features

• Contains a complete textual commentary on the Peshitta of Daniel, including the Deuterocanonical portions
• Includes an appendix and bibliography

Praise for the Print Edition

The reviewer is impressed with the method of the author, and his capacity in preparing camera-ready copy of a complex multi-lingual text, and commends the volume as a pattern of Peshitta studies which properly takes into account translation technique as well as text-criticism.

—D. J. Lane, Journal of Semitic Studies, 1995

This is an important work for all students of Daniel and the Peshitta.

—Old Testament Abstracts, 1995

Product Details

• Title: The Peshitta of Daniel
• Author: Richard A. Taylor
• Series: Monographs of the Peshitta Institute Leiden
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 1994
• Pages: 344

About Richard A. Taylor

Dr. Taylor has accumulated more than 30 years of graduate-level teaching experience and maintains his academic sharpness through active memberships in a dozen professional societies and groups. Dr. Taylor’s specialties include Aramaic studies and Syriac literature. His travels have taken him throughout Central America, Europe, the Near East, Canada, and India. His wife is a Christian school administrator, his daughter is a public-school teacher, and his son is a Ph.D. student in Washington, D.C.