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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent portable Syriac NT,
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This review is from: Syriac New Testament and Lexicon Syriacum (Paperback)
Wipf and Stock has produced a very nice reprint of this 1836 publication. It is a clear reproduction of a text in a very legible Serto font with full vocalization.
The largest part of the book is the New Testament in Syriac, which begins, in good Semitic fashion, on the right-hand side of the book (where the end of an English book would be found). The NT text is preceded by a short introduction (in Syriac) and a table of contents. The 550 pages of the NT text have Syriac numbers by the outside margin of the top of the page, and Roman numbers at the same margin at the bottom of the page. Following the NT text, pages 551-568 contain a list of "variant readings of the New Testament from the version of the British and Foreign Bible Society," as the Syriac title explains. The other major part of this book is the "Lexicon Syriacum," which begins at the left-hand side of the book. This occupies pages 1-135, numbered separately from the NT text. It consists of all the words in the Syriac text of the NT, in Syriac alphabetical order, with Latin glosses. It is quite handy to have this glossary bound with the NT text. This makes the text convenient to read while waiting for appointments, on airplanes and in other locations where handling multiple books is inconvenient.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Dated and dithered,
By Ken Weisz (FL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Syriac New Testament and Lexicon Syriacum (Paperback)
Although the original text of this reprint is from a known author of some 170+ years ago it is remarkably out of date. The vocalizations are from an era when typesetting incorrectly placed many of the vowels as subtext,(as in this case), that are now corrected as super-text. The Lexicon Syriacum in this text is also not a model one would want to adopt unless re-learning Syriac from more modern updated sources was your goal. The new updated Brockelmann is best for a Syriac lexical reference.
As far as print goes this one is blurred a bit too much for my liking and the print is very small. If you've ever tried to read Serto that was well printed then you know reading it in a small foggy print isn't the best of situations. There are far better original works out there and a couple of new great Syriac NT releases out there with new and original bound lexicon's with excellent print. Just my opinion but I suggest keep looking... This one gets gifted to the local library.
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