The Antioch Bible: The Syriac Peshiá¹ta Bible with English TranslationCall Number: All volumes begin with BS315.S9 P47
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This edition published by Gorgias Press contains both the Old and New Testaments. Contrary to the Leiden volumes, these are NOT critical editions and should be handled with that caveat in mind. To date (2018) twenty-two of the projected thirty-five volumes have been published. The Western-Syriac tradition, in terms of script, spelling, and pronunciation, is used with an English Translation on facing pages.
The New Testament text is taken from the 1920 Edition of the British and Foreign Bible Society. The Old Testament text finds its base in the East Syriac Mosul edition of 1887-8 (Repr. Beirut 1951). Consequently, the adaptation of an Eastern Syriac Tradition to a project in Western Syriac provides the student with an excellent first recourse in the OT volumes on spelling differences between the two traditions. The English translations, especially those of the NT, are are idiomatic translation for lay audiences. Thus, these volumes are no substitute for the meticulous work of translation. One last thing to keep in mind. Due to copyright issues, the editors of this edition may have misspelled words on purpose.