Murdock Peshitta New Testament

A major nineteenth-century American English translation of the Syriac Peshitta New Testament, known by the name of its translator, Murdock. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, rendered from Syriac, with the Syriac Peshitta serving as its base text and the Peshitta standing as its predecessor or base translation. The Peshitta is the standard Syriac version long used in the churches of the Syriac tradition, and Murdock's rendering was undertaken to make that tradition accessible to English readers. The translation philosophy is formal and Syriac-based, and the work is classed as a fresh translation rather than a revision of any earlier English version. Its distinctive contribution is to provide an English witness to the Syriac textual tradition, independent of direct translation from the Greek, and it has accordingly been consulted alongside Greek-based versions by those interested in comparative textual study.