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The Place of the Syriac Versions in the Textual History of the Psalter

The Classical Syriacl versions of the Bible are of considerable text critical significance, as a perusal of editions like Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (B H S), Septuaginta: Vetus Testamentum Graecum (Gottingen), and The Greek New Testament (United Bible Societies) makes clear. When it comes to the Old Testament, the fact that Syriac was the first Semitic language into which the whole of the original Hebrew/ Aramaic canon was translated further demonstrates that the importance of this segment of the larger textual history must not be underestimated. In this chapter, highlights of that history are surveyed and comparisons of Hebrew, Greek, and Syriac versions are carried out in order that the kinds of textual relationships that exist among them may be explicated. The chapter further argues that there is good reason to suspect that Paul's Syriac translation base for the Psalter was the Philoxenian Psalter mentioned by Moses of Aghel. Keywords: Bible; Greek New Testament; Moses of Aghel; Psalter