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At 02:04 PM 1/28/97 -0700, you wrote:

>
>So I would ask again: Is there any evidence available which actually
>fixes the date of the Peshitta, other than the date of the earliest
>manuscripts?
>
>                            Robert B. Waltz
>                         waltzmn@skypoint.com

The obvious answer is no.  But this is true of any manuscript and any
reading; the earliest evidence is the manuscript or the reading itself.
What lay behind it or from whence it sprang is always and only hypothetical.


Jim
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