Product Description: A new English translation of the book of Lamentations and the Epistles of Baruch in the Syriac Peshitta, accompanied by the fully-vocalized Syriac text on facing pages so that both can be studied together. Greenberg and Walter furnish an Introduction giving background information about the Syriac text, and explain and illustrate their translation technique, and Addenda, giving examples of mistranslation from the original Hebrew into Syriac, examples of apparent corruption of the Syriac text which occurred prior to our extant manuscripts, and a discussion of the Syriac translation of many passages of particularly difficult Hebrew...read more

Product Description: This volume is the first in a series of English translations of the Syriac Peshitta along with the Syriac text carried out by an international team of scholars. Greenberg and Walter have translated the Peshitta of Isaiah, while Kiraz and Bali have prepared the Syriac text in the west Syriac script fully vocalized and pointed...read more

Product Description: An analysis of translation technique, defining and measuring areas of literalness and of freedom, and discussing the evident acceptability of a non-literal approach, in both the original translation and later editorial work, to relevant communities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Dr Michael Weitzman was one of the leading biblical scholars of his generation. This volume brings together his most important contributions to the study of the Hebrew and the Syriac bibles, and the relationship between ancient Judaism and emerging Christianity...read more