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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 standard version of the Bible in the
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Syriac language . It was 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, bishop of Edessa, early in the 5th century, an attempt at standardizing the Syriac text such as Jerome had made for the Latin in his Vulgate .

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