Against the Khaburs (the identity of the ancient Syriac text) 2
The identity of the ancient Syriac text numbers What is the script family that was prevalent in Syria in the first four centuries? The benefit of answering this question is to determine the date of the Peshitta. The Peshitta is an anonymous copy of the New Testament in Syriac, dating back to the fifth century AD according to the opinion of the overwhelming majority of textual critics. The benefit of determining the date of the Peshitta is to prove the presence or absence of any early witness to the Byzantine text (the Byzantine family). The Byzantine family is one of the families of New Testament manuscripts, as the New Testament manuscripts differed from each other in many deep-rooted differences such that each region had its own text. The manuscripts are divided into four families (Alexandrian, Western, Byzantine, and Caesarean). The printed text widely used by Eastern Christians is the Vandyke version, a translation of the Greek version prepared by Erasmus in the sixteenth cent...