text-criticism

Transmission

The Armenian Bible

Armenia had no written literature at all until the fifth century of the common era. When Mesrop Mashtots, a former royal secretary who had become a priest and then a hermit, sat…

Transmission

The Syriac New Testament

In the monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, a scholar lifted a palimpsest from a shelf and found beneath it the oldest surviving…