• Preface


• Part One: Introduction


• From Judaism to Christianity: The Syriac Version of the Hebrew Bible


• Part Two: Translating the Hebrew Bible


• On Translating the Old Testament: The Achievement of William Tyndale


• The Interpretative Character of the Syriac Old Testament


• The Origin of the Peshitta Psalter


• The Peshitta Psalter and its Hebrew Vorlage


• The Hebrew and Syriac Test of the Book of Job


• Tiro - Wine or Grape? A Case of Metonymy


• What was Corinthian Bronze?


• Part Three: The Syriac Bible and Other Versions


• Peshitta, Septuagint and Targum


• Is the Peshitta of Chronicles a Targum?


• The Reliability of Retroversions of 'The Three' from the Syro-Hexaplar: A pilot study on Hosea


• Two Curious Passages in the Syriac Version of Wisdom


• The Originality of Unique Readings in Peshitta MS.9a1


• Part Four: Interpreting Numbers


• The Dates in Ezekiel


• Cracking the Codes


• Acknowledgements


• Index

This volume brings together Michael Weitzman's most important contributions to the study of the Hebrew and the Syriac bibles, and the relationship between ancient Judaism and emerging Christianity. This work will be useful to those interested in the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and its versions.