F. C. Burkitt

A transcript of the famous Syriac Sinaiticus Palimpsest discovered at "in the Convent of St. Catharine, on Mount Sinai." Also includes an introduction in English which explains the importance of the manuscript, as well as many of the interesting readings contained therein. From the Introduction: "THE manuscript from which this version of the Four Gospels has been transcribed was found by me in the Convent of St Catharine, on Mount Sinai, in the month of February, 1892. It was shown to me by the late Librarian, Galaktion, amongst a number -of other Syriac MSS. and I was attracted by its look of venerable antiquity, also still more by the fact that, as nearly all its leaves were glued together, my eyes were undoubtedly the first which had gazed intelligently on it for centuries. On separating the leaves with my fingers I saw that it was a palimpsest; that the upper, or later writing, was a Martyrology, or collection of lives of women-saints, and that the under, or earlier one, con-tained a good portion of the Synoptic Gospels. This I judged from the titles, and from the initial or final words of the lines which I could decipher along the margins. I therefore resolved, with the help of my sister, Mrs James Young Gibson, to photograph the whole book and thus take a complete copy home to Cambridge. During the process of development the first pages were shown to several Syriac scholars, whose eyes were, like my own, not sufficiently keen to read between the lines of writing in .the photographs; but presently more favour-able specimens appeared, and in the month of July 1892 some of these were deciphered by Professor Bensly and 'by Mr F. C. Burkitt, and were pronounced by them to belong to a version nearly allied to the so-called Curetonian, which has hitherto been known only from a single imperfect copy. It was now apparent that the manuscript was of great importance for Biblical criticism..." Originally published as: THE FOUR GOSPELS IN SYRIACTANSCRIBED FROM THE SINAITIC PALIMPSESTBY THE LATE ROBERT L. BENSLY M. A. Lord ALMONER'S PROFESSOR OF ARABIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE...

An in-depth investigation of the ancient Syriac Gospels. Very valuable for anyone interested in the Aramaic New Testament, Textual Criticism and transmission, and the Eastern Church. DURING the greater part of the first nine centuries of our Era the language commonly used in the Valley of the Euphrates and the neighbouring provinces was the dialect of Aramaic which we call Syriac. The literary headquarters of the Syriac-speaking Church was the city of Edessa (in Syriac Urhaii), which also had been the centre from which Christianity spread in all that region. The beginnings of Christianity at Edessa are lost in legend, but it is certain that the new religion was well established there before the city was absorbed into the Roman Empire during the reign of Caracalla (AD 216). The political independence of the little state accounts for the early translation of the Scriptures into the vernacular of the Euphrates Valley. About the year 420 AD the Gospel was extant in Syriac in three forms: The Peshitta; the Diatessaron of Titan; and the Old Syriac Gospels, called Evangelion Da-Mepharreshe.'The main object of the following pages is to trace the history of the Evangelion Da-Mepharreshe, and to determine as far as possible its relations to the Diatessaron and to the Peshitta. Originally published as: EVANGELION DA-MEPHARRESHEThe Curetonian Version of the four Gospels, with the readings of the Sinai Palimpsestand the early Syriac Patristic evidence, edited, collected and arranged byF. Crawford BurkittVolume II: Introduction and Notes

A thorough English translation and Syriac transcript of the Old Syriac Gospels - and older Syriac version than the well-known Peshitta. Very valuable for anyone interested in the Aramaic New Testament, Textual Criticism and transmission, and the Eastern Church. Originally published as: EVANGELION DA-MEPHARRESHEThe Curetonian Version of the four Gospels, with the readings of the Sinai Palimpsestand the early Syriac Patristic evidence, edited, collected and arranged by F. Crawford Burkitt

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Originally published in 1930, this book contains the last of three volumes on the origin and progress of the Christian faith from its origins in Judaism until the early twentieth century. Volume Three reviews the current status of Church doctrine and methods of worship, particularly in England, and examines the Church's on-going tasks in the world, with particular reference to other religions. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of Christianity and the Church's role in the lives of its devotees.

Francis Crawford Burkitt (1864–1935) was a prominent theologian and biblical scholar. Originally published in 1932, this book contains the substance of five lectures delivered by Burkitt during October 1931 at Union Theological Seminary, New York, as the Morse Lectures for that year. Various aspects of the relationship between Church doctrine and Gnostic thought are discussed, providing a highly informative analysis of a complicated topic. Rigorous and thought-provoking, this text will be of value to anyone with an interest in the early development of Christianity and biblical scholarship in general.