Harklean Syriac
Early translation · syr h · AD 616
A very literal Syriac translation, made in 616 by Thomas of Harqel at a monastery near Alexandria. He revised an earlier Syriac version (the Philoxenian, 508) word for word against Greek manuscripts, and put readings of other manuscripts in his margins.
Contents
The whole New Testament.
Cited For
- Matthew 6:13 “For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen”
- John 7:8 “not up yet”
- Acts 8:37 “And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God”
Early translations show the Greek their translators had, sometimes older than any Greek manuscript of the passage that survives. Their abbreviations name the language: it (Old Latin), vg (Vulgate), syr (Syriac), cop (Coptic), arm (Armenian), goth (Gothic), slav (Slavonic).
