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PESHITTO, or PESHITO (i.e. " simple ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 283 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PESHITTO, or PESHITO (i.e. "
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simple ")  , the
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standard version of the
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Bible in the
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Syriac
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language . It was
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long supposed to be the
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original Syriac version, but is now generally recognized as representing a revision made by
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Rabbula,
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bishop of
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Edessa,
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early in the 5th
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century, an
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attempt at standardizing the Syriac
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text such as
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Jerome had made for the Latin in his
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Vulgate .

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