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A Note to the Reader
Three English translations, J.W. Etheridge's English Translation of the Peschito, James Murdoch's New Translation from the Syriac Peshito Version and George Lamsa's New Testament according to the Eastern Text are very different translations with different aims and objectives. Each translator comes from a very different background, both culturally and linguistically, but the one thing that united them was the importance and relevance of the Syriac Biblical text in the life of the Christian. Each man in his translation sought to bring a fresh perspective to the text of Scripture. My hope is that this parallel translation will infuse your understanding of the Biblical text with wisdom and knowledge. Each of these translations has strengths and weaknesses but just as Ecclesiastes 4:12 says, "... a threefold cord is not quickly broken" and Proverbs 11:14 says, "in the multitude of counselors there is safety", I pray that you find strength and safety in this threefold Syriac scriptural cord.
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Resources below:
1. The life of the Rev. Adam Clarke, compiled from authentic documents. T. Gill, 1858.
2. The Apostolical Acts and Epistles, from the Peschito or Ancient Syriac:
to which are added, the remaining Epistles and the Book of Revelation after a
later Syrian text. Translated, with prolegomena and indices, by J.W. Etheridge. London: Longman & Co. 1849.
3. Jerusalem and Tiberias, Sora and Cordova, a Survey of the Religious and
Scholastic Learning of the Jews, Designed As an Introduction to the Study of
Hebrew Literature, by J.W. Etheridge. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1856.
4. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch, with
the fragments of the Jerusalem Targum. [Translated from the Chaldee] Two Volumes:
1862, 1865. Reprint New York, Ktav Pub. House, 1968.
5. The Syrian Churches: Their Early History, Liturgies, and Literature with a
Literal Translation of the Four Gospels from the Peschito, Or, Canon of Holy
Scripture in Use Among the Oriental Christians from the Earliest Times. London:
Longman, Green, Brown and Longmans, 1846.
6. Horae Aramaicae, Comprising Concise Notices of the Aramean Dialects in General,
and of the Versions of Holy Scripture Extant in Them, with a Translation of the
Gospel According to St. Matthew and of the Epistle to the Hebrews, from the Ancient
Peschito Syriac, by J.W. Etheridge. London: The author, 1843.
7. The Sacraments: a Discourse Delivered at St. Mary's Wesleyan Chapel, Truro.
W.J. Clyma: Truro, 1865.
8. Misericordia: Or Contemplations on the Mercy of God : Regarded Especially
in Its Aspects Towards the Young. London, 1842.
9. The Life of the Rev. Thomas Coke. Londres, 1860.
10. The Apostolic Ministry, and the Question of Its Restoration Considered
in an Exposition of Part of the Fourth Chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians.
Falmouth: Printed by J. Trathan, 1836.
11. Cooke, Corbett, William Hurt, and J W. Etheridge, Expostulations and Admonitions:
An Address from the Wesleyan Ministers of the Bristol North Circuit to Those Who Have
Lately Left the Methodist Society. Bristol: Printed by N. Lomas, 1850.
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