The Syriac New Testament Translated into English from the Peshitto

The Syriac New Testament has a unique double value: evidential and exegetical. As an early translation of the New Testament, it is highly valued both for textual criticism and exegesis. James Murdock’s translation makes available in English this important version for the study of the New Testament. This particular edition also includes a convenient introduction to the Syriac New Testament, its origins, and history as well as a biography of the translator provided by the publisher. The volume concludes with two appendixes. The first divides the translation into reading lessons and the second presents a survey of the various Syriac translations of the Greek New Testament, outlining not only the Peshitta, but also the other Syriac versions: the Curetonian, Philoxenian, Harclensian, and Jerusalem translations. The Syriac text used by the translation is that printed by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1816 by Claudius Buchanan and Samuel Lee, Professor of Arabic at Cambridge. Deviations of the Syriac text from the Greek are noted in the side margins. This makes it possible to quickly and easily compare the Syriac with the Greek New Testament.