The Peshiṭta
Subtitle: its uses in literature and liturgy : papers read at the third Peshiṭta Symposium
By: edited by Bas ter Haar Romeny.
Contributors: Haar Romeny, R. B. ter.
Series: Monographs of the Peshiṭta Institute, Leiden -- v. 15
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9789004156586
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Versions -- Peshiṭta -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Use of the Syriac versions in the liturgy /  Sebastian P. Brock; value: Between the school and the monk's cell : the Syriac Old Testament commentary tradition /  Lucas Van Rompay; value: Problems in the Syriac New Testament and how Syrian exegetes solved them / William L. Petersen; value: Biblical text in the Disputation of Sergius the Stylite against a Jew / A. Peter Hayman; value: Reworking the biblical text in the dramatic dialogue poems on the Old Testament patriarch Joseph / Kristian Heal; value: Old Testament in the new : the Syriac versions of the New Testament as a witness to the text of the Old Testament Peshiṭta / Jan Joosten; value: 'Syriac Masora' and the New Testament Peshiṭta / Andreas Juckel; value: Four kingdoms in Peshiṭta Daniel 7 in the light of the early history of interpretation /  Arie van der Kooij; value: Aphrahat's use of his Old Testament / Marinus D. Koster; value: 'There is no need of turtle-doves or young pigeons ...' (Jacob of Sarug) : quotations and non-quotations of Leviticus in selected Syriac writers / David J. Lane; value: Ephrem, his school, and the Yawnaya : some remarks on the early Syriac versions of the New Testament / Christian Lange; value: Ishoʻdad's knowledge of Hebrew as evidenced from his treatment of Peshiṭta Ezekiel / Jerome A. Lund; value: Text of the New Testament in the Acts of Judas Thomas / Craig E. Morrison; value: Interpretation in the Greek Antiochenes and the Syriac Fathers / Shinichi Muto; value: Book of Proverbs in Aphrahat's Demonstrations / Robert J. Owens; value: Sirach quotations in the Discourses of Philoxenus of Mabbug: text and context / Wido van Peursen; value: Reception of Peshiṭta Chronicles: some elements for investigation / David Phillips; value: Greek vs. the Peshiṭta in a West Syrian exegetical collection / Bas ter Haar Romeny; value: Peshiṭta and biblical quotations in the longer Syriac version of the commentary of Athanasius on the Psalms (BL Add. 14568), with special attention to Psalm 23 (24) and 102 (103) / Harry F. van Rooy; value: Reception of the Peshiṭta Psalter in Bar Salibi's Commentary on the Psalms / Stephen D. Ryan; value: Obscure words in the Peshiṭta of Samuel, according to Theodore bar Koni / Alison Salvesen; value: New Testament quotations in the breviary of the Syrian Orthodox Church,example : The Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38) / Aho Shemunkasho; value: Psalm headings in the West Syrian tradition / David G.K. Taylor; value: Peshitta New Testament quotations in the West Syrian anaphoras : some general observations / Baby Varghese.