Sote.—The Nomocanon of Barhebrxus, ch. 7, 5 3 (p. 103, ed. BedJHii) oil the number of the holy books and those besides(!t«), quotes canon 81 of the Apostles, that all clergy and laymen ought to have the Holy Scriptures of the OT, i.e. 5 books of Moses, Josh., Judges, Ruth, Judith; 4 books of Kin^s ; 2 of Chron. : 2 of Ezra ; Esth., Job ; 3 of Mac. ; Job, David ; 6 of Solomon ; 16 Prophets. Of ' books without,' there is to be Bar Asira for the teachinu of the young. The NT is to include 4 Oos^iels, 14 letters of Paul, 2 of Peter, 3 of John ; James, Jude ; 2 of Clement, 8 books of the mysteries of the same Clement, and the Praxeis of the Apostles.
The ehicidation says that the 4 of Kings are Samuel and Kiugs, and of Solomon we know only 4 (Prov., Eccl., Cant., Wisd.); and it is possible that the 5th is that which is in- scribed * the deep Proverbs of Solomon ' ; and the Book of Susanna is reckoned with Daniel.
Then he quotes the great Athanasius on the great Wisdom, Bar Asira, Esther, Judith, Tobia, what is called Si«T«fi,.- kirtr- Ti>ji,, and the Shrpherd ; Dionysius of Alexandria on Revela- tion as being bv Ctrinthus or another John ; Oritren on He- brews. Apocalypsxs tauli, and other Revelations, Tlie Doctrine of the Apostles, EpMU o/ Barnabas, Tobia, the Shepherd, Bar
Asira ; the Patriarch Cyriacus on the Book of Hierotheos at being not by him, but probably by the heretic Stephen hu ^udaile.
syr^". syrhr or i^'cf, syr«l» ( = Schaaf-Peshito), ByrP (=posterior = Philoxcniana), syr-^i' { = White = Heraclensis). Westcott-Ilort used syr»» = syr*"," and now syr crt and syr sin (see vol. ii. 1896, notes, p. 5), svr vg( = Peshito), syr hl(= Harklean), sjT hr. Zuhn proposed Si=Peshito, S'-= Philoxcniana, S3 = Harklensi9 : for the Gospels Sc, Ss, Sh. To avoid figures, the Philoxcniana might be represented by Sf , the versions of Thomas by SO.
• In support of the Jewish origin of the Syr. version of Chronicles, Noldeke (.((((Mt. Lil. p. 169) quotes the translation of 1 Ch 62 ' from Judah will go out (piEO the king Messiah ' ; the copyist of cod. F wrote pSJ (' A« »»"» •»< ">•
1
2
3
4
1 (
Cod.
Cod.
Cod.
Cod.
Ed. Lee.
Sin.
Vat.
Bart>.
Paris
10.
159.
vi. 62.
W.
Gen. ,
4516
4631
=2
4638
4509
Ex. . .
3378
3560
=2
3660
3626
Lev. .
2684
2445
= 2
=2
2454
Num. .
3481
3560
= 2
=2
3521
Deut. .
2982
2979
2783
= 3
2796
Pent.* .
17041
Josh. ,
1953
2167
2150
2160
=2
Judges .
2088
2249
= 2
2089
4033
Sam.
3436
5230
= 2
=2
= 1
Kings .
6113
5323
=2
=2
>**
Ruth .
246
= 1
= 1
• •>■
David .
4830
= 1
= 1
= 1
Chron.t
3553
5630
Job . .
1548
2553
= 3
= 3
Prov.t .
1762
1866
= 2
— o
1863
[Cant.] .
296
= 2
290
[Eccles.]
616
=2
627
• •<
Twelve §
3643
3321
= 3
• ••
Is.aiah .
3656
...
4801
= 3
■ ••
Jer. . .
4252
4824
= 3
.»
Lam.
433
...
...
Dan. .
1.555
2273
= 3
...
Ezek. .
4376
4154
= 2
= 2
...
Esth. .
650
...
...
• •■
Ezra .
2308
...
...
2361
1 Mac. .
2766
...
„.
... 1
2 Mac. .
5600
...
...
... 1
.Judith .
1268
...
= 1
= 1
Wisd.ll .
1550
•••
1236
= 3
Sir.H .
2550
...
2500
=3
...
Total .
1
71574
A singular division found in some MSS is that the Law (xn'nix) is directly followed by n'an unna Kjnis = /i'>cr sessiomim, /9i/3Xos Ka0ioij.6.Tbiv, i.e. Job, Josh., Judges, Sam., ICings, Prov., Sir., Eccl., Ruth, Canticles.
The Psalter also is divided into KaBlaiuna, (20). This is the favourite book of the Syriac Church, which must be known by heart if one wishes to become a deacon, and was recited daily by certain monks. In accurate MSS there are ilassoretical notes ; cf. the edition of Bedjan (Liber Psalmorum. hornrum diurnarum, ordinis officii divini et homi lifirum rogationum ad usum scholarum, Parisiia, 1886, p. 117).
The number of Psalms b 150, of Hallelujahs «), Section! (urins) 29, Embolisms (K.^ip-i;) 67, Stichi (iCjnB) 4833, and Books 5. The number of Words is 19,934, and the number of Letters 90,862. ' Lord ' occurs 732 times, ' God ' 400, ' because ' (7^0) 285, ' Moses ' 6, ' Aaron ' 6, ' Jacob ' 24, ' Saumel ' 1, 'Benjamin' 2, 'Israel' 44, 'namely' iyi)b, 'but' (t■^) 5. And 'know that there is not found in David the form n'nn for th« preposition " under," as there is not found mrui in the Apostle*, ninn occurs 13 times ; and ' from now and to eternity '4 time&
There is a strange statement at the head of many Psalter MSS (already in the cod. Ambr.) that the Psalms were translated from the Palestinian language into Hebrew, from Hebrew into Greek, from Greek into Syriac. In the cod. Hunt 109 (Oxford, Bodleian) this statement is transferred to the whole Syriac OT, and in cod. Rich 7154