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		Definition of Peshitta in English: Peshittanoun pəˈʃiːtəpəˈSHēdə The ancient Syriac version of the Bible, used in Syriac-speaking Christian countries from the early 5th century and still the official Bible of the Syrian Christian Churches.  Example sentencesExamples -  Burgon's followers dated the Peshitta in the second century and defended the view that it was Byzantine.
 -  Modem expositors simply cannot control the information from the Aramaic Targums, Syriac Peshitta, or Latin Vulgate, to name the most important.
 -  As for versional evidence, there used to be, about 70 years ago, the dispute as to whether the Syriac Peshitta was Byzantine or not.
 -  After all these years, we now can come to a better perception than either side had: the Syriac Peshitta is indeed fairly early, sometime before the year AD 451.
 -  The LXX may have been influenced by the Targum; or the Peshitta and the Vulgate may just be following the LXX.
 
 
 Origin   Syriac, literally 'simple, plain'.    Definition of Peshitta in US English: Peshitta(also Peshito) nounpəˈSHēdə The ancient Syriac version of the Bible, used in Syriac-speaking Christian countries from the early 5th century and still the official Bible of the Syrian Christian Churches.  Example sentencesExamples -  Burgon's followers dated the Peshitta in the second century and defended the view that it was Byzantine.
 -  After all these years, we now can come to a better perception than either side had: the Syriac Peshitta is indeed fairly early, sometime before the year AD 451.
 -  As for versional evidence, there used to be, about 70 years ago, the dispute as to whether the Syriac Peshitta was Byzantine or not.
 -  Modem expositors simply cannot control the information from the Aramaic Targums, Syriac Peshitta, or Latin Vulgate, to name the most important.
 -  The LXX may have been influenced by the Targum; or the Peshitta and the Vulgate may just be following the LXX.
 
 
 Origin   Syriac, literally ‘simple, plain’.     |