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Text, Translation, and Tradition: Studies on the Peshitta and its Use in the Syriac Tradition Presented to Konrad D. Jenner on the Occasion of His … 14
Author(s): Willem Th Van Peursen (Editor), Bas Ter Haar Romeny
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 15 May 2006
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 266 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004153004
- ISBN-13: 9789004153004
Book Description
This volume contains eighteen articles in honour of Konrad D. Jenner written by his friends and colleagues from all parts of the world and presented to him on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. The laureate has been a staff member of the Leiden Peshitta Institute for 35 years and has been its director since 1993. The contributions cover the broad field of Peshitta studies, addressing text-critical and text-historical questions, linguistic and translational issues, and the use of the Peshitta in the Syriac tradition. Thus the reader is given an up-to-date picture of research into the Syriac Bible. The editors, Wido van Peursen and Bas ter Haar Romeny, are two colleagues of Konrad Jenner at the Leiden Peshitta Institute.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“It is clear that organized research into the Peshitta is on a sound footing. The Peshitta Institute undertakes many activities, such as the consistent publication of its monograph series on applicable themes and the successful organization of conferences. With this publication they make available insights into novel developments in this research field on all levels.” – Johann Cook, in: Review of Biblical Literature, 2007
About the Author
Wido van Peursen, Ph.D. (1999), Leiden University, is a research fellow at the Peshitta Institute Leiden. He has published on Hebrew and Aramaic languages and literature including The Verbal System in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira (Brill, 2004).
R. Bas ter Haar Romeny, Ph.D. (1997), Leiden University, is University Lecturer in Old Testament and director of the PIONIER and EURYI programmes in Eastern Christianity at Leiden University. He has published on Old Testament and Eastern Christianity, including A Syrian in Greek Dress (Peeters, 1997).
R. Bas ter Haar Romeny, Ph.D. (1997), Leiden University, is University Lecturer in Old Testament and director of the PIONIER and EURYI programmes in Eastern Christianity at Leiden University. He has published on Old Testament and Eastern Christianity, including A Syrian in Greek Dress (Peeters, 1997).
