The Peshit?ta as a Translation: Papers Read at the II Peshit?ta Symposium Held at Leiden 19-21 August 1993

The Peshit?ta as a Translation contains the eleven papers which were read at the Second Peshit?ta Symposium, held in Leiden 19-21 August 1993, as well as two reports on the ongoing work on the Peshit?ta in Stellenbosch and Leiden, and as, an Appendix, an update of the Annotated Bibliography of the Peshit?ta of the Old Testament (MPI 5, 1989).
The papers discuss various aspects of the Peshit?ta as a Translation: its translation technique(s), its relation to Septuagint and Targum, its language, and its use for text-critical purposes. This new addition to the MPI-series will be important for scholars who are engaged in research of the Peshit?ta, and in the history of the Old Testament text, as well as for Syriacists.