• Benslv died ft few days after the return to Cambridge, 23rd April 189.1.
t Reviews and papers called forth by the p'^^'i^^tion ar« mentioned, Urt. 112 ff. ; add to them FaVrar in the Expositor, Jan. 1895. On the reading Mt 11^ 'Joseph, to whom the Virgin .Marv was betrothed, begat Jesus,' see the correspondence in tlis Academii, 1894, Nov. 17, 24, Dec. 1, 8, 16, 22, '29; 1896, Jan. 5, 12, April IS, May 18, June 8, 29, by Allen, Badham, Charles, Conder, Conybeare, Farrar, Lewis, Nestle, Rahlfs (who first pointed out that it was also found in Greek, 29th DecX Sand.ay, Simcox, White; further, O. H. Skipwith, 'The first chapter of St Mattbt w's Gospel in the light of recent research (Nottingham Tracts, iii., London, 1895); and the Additional Notes in the second vol. of Westcott-Hort's Greek Testament, (reprint 1896).
SYRIAC VERSIONS
SYRIAC VERSIONS
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Ceriaiii {Munumentn sacra et profana, V. i. 1-40, ls>7:i|. The text of the Gospels exists, according to Uernstein {Das Eratr/elium (Irs Ju/imnfs, 1S5H, p|). H, •J'.i), in tlie codex A"2 of the Bibliotheca An- j;elicii at Koine. lu 1S>S4 Isaac II. Hall puhlislied Hyriftc Jlnniisvript Gospels of a pre- 1 1 arldensian version. Acts ami Epistles of the Peshito version, written (jirobably) between 700 and 900 (I'bila- deliihia).
'1 lie minor epistles of the Philoxeniana were first puljlished l)y Ed. Pococke (Leiden, lOIiO), and Btill earlier iltil-) at Mayence a Latin translation of them (by Nieulaus Servasius, Comment, in Epiit. Canonicas) from a MS brought to Rome. Pococke's text was taken over into the Peshito editions of the NT and emended by Lee (1823) ; still more in the New York impres.sion, 1888. Gwj-nn collated fifteen MSS and gave a survey of the chief points, pending the publication of the emeiuled text with a complete Apparatus Criticus (Ifrrmrithena, No. 16, vol. vii. pp. 281-314 IT. : 'The older Sj-riac Version of the tour Minor Catholic K|iistles'). Cf., further. Ad. Merx, 'Die in der I'eschito fehlenden Briefe des Neuen Testaments in arabischer der Philoxeniana entstanimender Uebersetzung. Nach der Abschrif t einesManu.se ripts des Sinaiklosters von Frau A. Persis Burkitt voroll'entlicht und niit Anmerkungen versehen ' (ZA xii. 240-252, 348-381, xiii. 1-28). Merx fre- cjuently <lisagrees with Gwj'nn as to the value of the variunts.
2. The Harklensis. — A hundred years later the work of retranslation and revision was taken up at Alexandria for the OT by Paul of Telia (see p. 445'), for the NT by Thomas of ^arkel (Heraklea in Mcsoiiotamia). This version comprises (as printed at present), like the Philoxeniana, all the books of the NT except Revelation, and was pub- lished under the (inappropriate) title of Versio P/iiluxeniana by Jos. White at Oxford, between 1778 and 18ii3. A lacuna in the Epistle to the Hebrews (ir-''-13-^) has been sujiplied by Bensly (CamV)ridge, 1889). Its importance rests on the fact that one of the (Jreek MSS of Acts used by Thomas bore the closest relation to codex I), and that for the Epistles of Paul his text goes back to the library of Pani[ihilus (codex H). On Acts see Aug. Pott, Der AbcmUaniliS''lie Text der Apostel- gisckielUe und die Wir-Qiicllc, Leipzig, I'JOO ; U. Corssen, ' Die Recension der Philoxeniana durch Thomas von Mabu^' (ZNTW, 19U1, 1-12);* A. Hilgenfeld, ' Thomas von Ileraclea und die Apostel- geschichte' (ZWTIi, 43, lOHO, 3). W. Dearie had prepared a new edition ; it is an urgent want for the textual criticism, especially of Acts.
3. Revelation. — A Syriac text of the last book of the NT was lirst |)nblished by L. de Dieu (Leiden, 1627) from a -MS of Scaliger, now at Leiden, written by a certain Caspar from the land of the Hindus (' Ilanravitarum,' as de Dieu read). The text of the Paris (and London) Poljglot seems to be taken from an imlcpcndcnt .M.S. It does not belong to the origiiuil work of Polycarp, but to that of Thoma.s — a fact verified at last by the docu- mentary evidence of the Florence M.S rediscovered by Gwyim [lleriiuithena, 1808: 'On the recovery of a missing Syriac Manuscript of the Apocaly|j»e,' PI). 227-245).
The same scholar discovered, in 1S92, in a codex belonging to Lord Crawford, another and older tr.ansliition of Revelation, and publishe<l it as the lirst Syriac book issued from the Dublin University Prew, in 1897 {The Apocalypse of St. John in a
• To be used with caution. The intention of Thoma-i wm certainly not ' to restore with the help of his Greel< .MSS tlie original text of I'hiloxetiiig,' and * the old Syrian ' nientionefl l»y hiin in >lt i?:" 'is^ Mli 8" is not I'hiloxcn'uK, but tlie I'esliilo. CI. also A. lliliccnfeid, 7.\\Th, 44 (1901), 318-320.
Syriac Version hitherto nnknovn ; edited . , . with Critical Notes on the Syriac Text and an annotated Reconstruction of the underlying Greek Text. To which i.9 added an Introductory Dissertation on tht Syriac Versions of the Apocalypse, Dublin, 4to).
4. The pericope de adultera and other passages, (rt) The jiassage .Jn 8-"" missing in the common Syriac Bible became known to the learned at an early date. Mara, bishop of Amid (about 519), wr'-'e a Greek prologue to a copy of the Tetra- evangelium, in Avhicli this pericope had a place in canon 89, i.e. at Jn S-"", where also the pseudo- Athanasian Synopsis mentions it. With tlio Pro- logue this pericope has been translated into Syriac in the so-called Church history of Zacharias Rhetor (Land, A necdota Syriaca, iii. 252, 255).