Codex Sinaiticus Arabicus and Its Family

Download or read book Codex Sinaiticus Arabicus and Its Family written by Robert Turnbull and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-10-21 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arabic versions of the New Testament have been overlooked for too long. The Sinai New Finds of 1975 unearthed Codex Sinaiticus Arabicus which preserves an Arabic translation of the Gospels differing markedly from the Majority Text. Here Robert Turnbull undertakes a wide-ranging study of this version, discovering many lectionary manuscripts with the same text. Several open-access datasets are made available. Bayesian phylogenetics and other computational techniques are used to draw insights into the transmission history of this version and its place in the wider New Testament textual tradition. This Arabic version will be indispensable in future textual scholarship on the Gospels.