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Peshitta English New Testament (Gilded)

The Antioch Bible English Translation


After the success of the Antioch Bible, this publication is a new translation of the Peshitta English New Testament in a single volume. The English translations of the New Testament Syriac Peshitta were carried out by an international team of scholars.
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
SKU (ISBN): 978-1-4632-4217-6
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Publication Status: In Print
Publication Date: Jan 27,2021
Interior Color: Black
Trim Size: 5.25 x 7.75
Page Count: 736
Languages: English
ISBN: 978-1-4632-4217-6
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After the success of the Antioch Bible, this publication is a new translation of the Peshitta English New Testament in a single volume.  The English translations of the New Testament Syriac Peshitta were carried out by an international team of scholars.

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Excerpts from Kristian S. Heal, RBL 09/24

“This is a beautifully produced New Testament. It is tastefully bound, and the translation is clearly typeset with headings set in red. The front matter invites the reader into the world of the Syriac New Testament both ancient and modern…

The Syriac Bible has most frequently been written about by those outside the Syriac liturgical tradition. The preface to this volume offers the subtly different perspective of a scholar talking about his own tradition…and that difference is valuable. Kiraz speaks objectively but not dispassionately (viii–ix). He writes as an advocate of the importance of the Syriac Peshitta version, not just for Christians of the Syriac liturgical tradition, but for anyone who “wants a snapshot of what the Scriptures may have looked like during the first few centuries of the Christian era” (ix).

The introduction successfully reaches the target audience, which is not just English-speaking Syriac Christians but also English readers of the New Testament who want access to the ancient Syriac tradition (lix).

This latter section begins with a fascinating description of the first printed Peshitta New Testament, published in 1555. This edition was a collaboration between Moses of Mardin and Albrecht Widmanstadt, and Kiraz does a great job of giving a fuller account of Moses/Mushe of Mardin’s involvement in this project, which was obscured in earlier European accounts. The story of the printing of the Syriac New Testament thus offers a useful slice of European and Middle Eastern intellectual history from sixteenth century humanism to nineteenth- and early twentieth-century philology and text criticism, as well as the rise and role Bible societies and mission presses in the modern publication of the Peshitta New Testament. Kiraz offers a rich history, often augmented by insights from the Syriac churches absent from previous surveys.”

After the success of the Antioch Bible, this publication is a new translation of the Peshitta English New Testament in a single volume.  The English translations of the New Testament Syriac Peshitta were carried out by an international team of scholars.

REVIEWS

Excerpts from Kristian S. Heal, RBL 09/24

“This is a beautifully produced New Testament. It is tastefully bound, and the translation is clearly typeset with headings set in red. The front matter invites the reader into the world of the Syriac New Testament both ancient and modern…

The Syriac Bible has most frequently been written about by those outside the Syriac liturgical tradition. The preface to this volume offers the subtly different perspective of a scholar talking about his own tradition…and that difference is valuable. Kiraz speaks objectively but not dispassionately (viii–ix). He writes as an advocate of the importance of the Syriac Peshitta version, not just for Christians of the Syriac liturgical tradition, but for anyone who “wants a snapshot of what the Scriptures may have looked like during the first few centuries of the Christian era” (ix).

The introduction successfully reaches the target audience, which is not just English-speaking Syriac Christians but also English readers of the New Testament who want access to the ancient Syriac tradition (lix).

This latter section begins with a fascinating description of the first printed Peshitta New Testament, published in 1555. This edition was a collaboration between Moses of Mardin and Albrecht Widmanstadt, and Kiraz does a great job of giving a fuller account of Moses/Mushe of Mardin’s involvement in this project, which was obscured in earlier European accounts. The story of the printing of the Syriac New Testament thus offers a useful slice of European and Middle Eastern intellectual history from sixteenth century humanism to nineteenth- and early twentieth-century philology and text criticism, as well as the rise and role Bible societies and mission presses in the modern publication of the Peshitta New Testament. Kiraz offers a rich history, often augmented by insights from the Syriac churches absent from previous surveys.”

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I am so blessed!
I am not sure that I can put into writing how I feel about the gilded edition of the "Peshitta English New Testament".  I have been seeking my true divine soul for a year and a half (really all of my life) and have been lead by the Spirit to read and study many books and texts ..and then THIS! When I learned that I should be reading a Bible that was most closely translated from Jesus' (Yeshua's) words, I arrived here. I cannot explain, but in my simple words, for me the book "glows". Touching it brings me chills.  Now for the book itself. It is the perfect size, the cover is lovely, soft and pliable. The page weight could not be better, love the color, and the font is perfect (I can read it without glasses). Love the headings in red. There is not one complaint I have except I wish that I had arrived here sooner. Thank you Gorgias Press!
Susan | 7/8/2023 12:14 PM
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ContributorBiography

GeorgeKiraz

George A. Kiraz is the founder and director of Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, the Editor-in-Chief of Gorgias Press, and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He earned an M.St. degree in Syriac Studies from the University of Oxford (1991) and an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (1992, 1996). He has published extensively in the fields of computational linguistics, Syriac studies, and the digital humanities. His latest books include The Syriac Orthodox in North America (1895–1995): A Short History (2019) and Syriac-English New Testament (2020).

George is an ordained Deacon of the rank of Ewangeloyo (Gospler) in the Syriac Orthodox Church where he also serves on several Patriarchal, Synodal, and local committees. He lives in Piscataway, NJ, with his wife Christine and their children, Tabetha Gabriella, Sebastian Kenoro, and Lucian Nurono.

JeffChilders

Jeff W. Childers is Carmichael-Walling Professor of New Testament & Early Christianity in the Graduate School of Theology at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. He has a DPhil in Syriac Studies from the University of Oxford and specializes in the literature and history of Oriental Christianity.

J.Walters

James Edward Walters (PhD in Early Christianity, Princeton Theological Seminary) is currently an Assistant Professor of Religion at Rochester College in Rochester Hills, MI. He works primarily with the early Syriac tradition and is interested in late antique Christianity, the reception and transmission of Scripture, and ancient Mediterranean religions.

DanielKing

Daniel King (Translation Consultant, SIL International and Associate Fellow, Cardiff University) specializes in Greek-Syriac translations in Late Antiquity, and especially in Syriac philosophy. He has published on the Syriac reception of Aristotle, John Philoponus, and Cyril of Alexandria. He is the author, inter alia, of The Syriac World (Routledge, 2019) and The Earliest Syriac version of Aristotle’s Categories (Brill, 2010).

RobertKitchen

Robert A. Kitchen is the Minister of Knox-Metropolitan United Church, Regina, Saskatchewan. He holds a D.Phil in Syriac Language and Literature from the University of Oxford. Along with Martien F. G. Parmentier he has translated the Book of Steps for Cistercian Publications.

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