Biblical and Other Christian Sogdian Texts from the Turfan Collection

by Nicholas Sims-Williams

This new volume in the series Berliner Turfantexte contains the edition, with translation and detailed commentary, of a series of important Christian texts in Sogdian, most of them previously unpublished. The emphasis is on Biblical texts translated into Sogdian from the Syriac Peshitta version: a Psalter in Sogdian script, fragments of Gospel lectionaries, and a double-folio from a lectionary of the Pauline Epistles. Other texts edited in the volume...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2503552382
• ISBN13: 9782503552385
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.