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Approximation of the ‘traditions’ in Jacob of Edessa’s Revision of Isaiah

This article contributes to the knowledge of Jacob of Edessa’s (d. 708) Old Testament revision by editing twenty texts (a total of 80 verses) from the Book of Isaiah and comparing them with the Greek recensions of the Septuagint, with the Peshitta, and the Syrohexapla. Two special features are introduced to set out Jacob’s revision technique in some detail: 1. comparison with an earlier undeveloped stage of Jacob’s revision extant in Ms Add 17,134 of the British Library; and 2. the distinction (by different colours and fonts) of the ‘traditions’ involved in the definite stage of his revision. Both features point to the emphasis given to the Peshitta in translating the substantial Greek text of the Old Testament.
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Publication Date: Mar 27,2009
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ISBN: 978-1-60724-036-5
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This article contributes to the knowledge of Jacob of Edessa’s (d. 708) Old Testament revision by editing twenty texts from the Book of Isaiah and comparing them with the Greek recensions of the Septuagint, with the Peshitta, and the Syrohexapla. Two special features are introduced to set out Jacob’s revision technique in some detail: 1. comparison with an earlier undeveloped stage of Jacob’s revision extant in Ms Add 17,134 of the British Library; and 2. the distinction (by different colours and fonts) of the ‘traditions’ involved in the definite stage of his revision. Both features point to the emphasis given to the Peshitta in translating the substantial Greek text of the Old Testament. Depending on the (in)congruence of the Peshitta with the Greek, Jacob’s translation technique is governed by adoption, correction or substitution of the Peshitta. Due to their permanent incongruence in the Book of Isaiah, texts from this prophet offer the key for understanding Jacob’s revision technique. In this perspective approximation of the Syriac and the Greek traditions seems to be the general idea behind Jacob’s revision, i.e. to offer a Peshitta-based textual incarnation of the substantial Greek Old Testament text.

Andreas Juckel is a Research Associate at the Oriental Department of the Institute for New Testament Textual Research, University of Muenster/Germany. He received his Ph. D from Bonn University. His special area of research is the revisional development of the Syriac New Testament and its relation to the Greek.

This article contributes to the knowledge of Jacob of Edessa’s (d. 708) Old Testament revision by editing twenty texts from the Book of Isaiah and comparing them with the Greek recensions of the Septuagint, with the Peshitta, and the Syrohexapla. Two special features are introduced to set out Jacob’s revision technique in some detail: 1. comparison with an earlier undeveloped stage of Jacob’s revision extant in Ms Add 17,134 of the British Library; and 2. the distinction (by different colours and fonts) of the ‘traditions’ involved in the definite stage of his revision. Both features point to the emphasis given to the Peshitta in translating the substantial Greek text of the Old Testament. Depending on the (in)congruence of the Peshitta with the Greek, Jacob’s translation technique is governed by adoption, correction or substitution of the Peshitta. Due to their permanent incongruence in the Book of Isaiah, texts from this prophet offer the key for understanding Jacob’s revision technique. In this perspective approximation of the Syriac and the Greek traditions seems to be the general idea behind Jacob’s revision, i.e. to offer a Peshitta-based textual incarnation of the substantial Greek Old Testament text.

Andreas Juckel is a Research Associate at the Oriental Department of the Institute for New Testament Textual Research, University of Muenster/Germany. He received his Ph. D from Bonn University. His special area of research is the revisional development of the Syriac New Testament and its relation to the Greek.

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AndreasJuckel

Andreas Juckel is a Research Associate at the Oriental Department of the Institute for New Testament Textual Research, University of Muenster/Germany. His doctoral dissertation (1983, University of Bonn) provided an initial edition of Ktaba d-Durrasha (didactic poetry) of the East-Syriac writer Elija of Anbar. He is co-editor of the comparative edition Das Neue Testament in syrischer Überlieferung (cath. Epp. 1986, Pauline Epp. 1995-2002) and has published on textual criticism of the Syriac NT and on Syriac Lexicography. Inetje E. Parlevliet-Flesseman is a privat scholar who lives in Almelo/NL. She studied theology at the Groninger Universiteit and the Vrije Universiteit/Amsterdam and wrote a thesis entitled De Tekst van de Pesjitta in de Brief aan de Galaten (1993). Since 1992 she is associated with the Peshitta research of the Institute for New Testament Textual Research/Muenster.

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