F. Crawford Burkitt

Excerpt from The Gospel History and Its Transmission The more we investigate the early history of the Christian Church with open and unprejudiced eyes, the more we find ourselves in a strange world, dominated by fixed ideas that are not our fixed ideas and permeated by an intellectual atmosphere quite different from ours. We come to ourselves, and we rub our eyes and wonder if what we have been gazing upon ever had any reality. It was for the student in this state of mind that my book was written. What I have attempted to shew is, that at least the Gospel according to 5. Mark is in touch with the actual condition of Palestine in the times of the Herods; and, further, that the course of events in the second century enables us to understand some of the reasons which led the Church to cherish on the whole a historical, as distinct from an ideal, account of the foundation of Christianity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Gospel History and Its Transmission

J. Rendel Harris

Robert L. Bensly

Transcribed from the Sinaitic Palimpsest

The Four Gospels in Syriac

William Sanday

Frederic G. Kenyon

A. C. Headlam

J. H. Bernhard

A seminal collection of introductory essays by some of England's leading biblical scholars at the turn of the twentieth century. Contributions include an introductory lecture by William Sanday; Frederick Kenyon on manuscripts; F.C. Burkitt on ancient versions of the New Testament; F.H. Chase on the history of the New Testament Canon; A.C. Headlam on the dates of New Testament books; and J.H. Bernard on the historical value of the Acts of the Apostles.

St. Margaret's Lectures, 1902

Criticism of the New Testament

Originally published in 1904, this book is the second of a two-volume edition of the Curetonian manuscript, comprising the four Gospels and the Sinaitic Palimpsest, all of which were written in Syriac. This second volume contains a detailed introduction to the manuscript and the text's relationship to later Syriac versions of the same texts. Burkitt also includes patristic commentary on the manuscript and the differences between it and the Diatessaron. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the transmission of the Christian Gospels or the history of the Syriac church.

Evangelion Da-Mepharreshe

Donnellan Lectures for 1924

The Religion of the Manichees

The Curetonian Version of the Four Gospels, with the readings of the Sinai Palimpsest and the early Syriac Patristic evidence, edited, collected, and arranged by F. Craw Burkitt, MA University Lecturer in Palaeography.

Volume 1

Originally published in 1904, this book is the first of a two-volume edition of the Curetonian manuscript, comprising the four Gospels and the Sinaitic Palimpsest, all of which were written in Syriac. This first volume contains the standard edition of the Syriac text, with an English translation provided on the facing page. Footnotes are provided, linking the Curetonian version with the Sinai text. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the transmission of the Christian Gospels or the history of the Syriac church.

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