In the last decades of the eighteenth century, old arguments about what constituted true Christianity resumed with the newly refined tools and methods of linguistics, history, and comparative literature. The most sensitive questions sought to probe through the centuries and discover the original Jesus. Why, scholars asked, is the New Testament silent about most of Jesus's life? Why didn't Paul say more about the life of Jesus? To what extent was Jesus Jewish? How significant were the differences among the Gospels? What evidence could be trusted and what views justified? As scholars sought to...

Originally published in 1904, this book is the first of a two-volume edition of the Curetonian manuscript, comprising the four Gospels and the Sinaitic Palimpsest, all of which were written in Syriac. This first volume contains the standard edition of the Syriac text, with an English translation provided on the facing page. Footnotes are provided, linking the Curetonian version with the Sinai text. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the transmission of the Christian Gospels or the history of the Syriac church.

Originally published in 1904, this book is the second of a two-volume edition of the Curetonian manuscript, comprising the four Gospels and the Sinaitic Palimpsest, all of which were written in Syriac. This second volume contains a detailed introduction to the manuscript and the text's relationship to later Syriac versions of the same texts. Burkitt also includes patristic commentary on the manuscript and the differences between it and the Diatessaron. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the transmission of the Christian Gospels or the history of the Syriac church.