Peshitta Electronic Text Project

The aim of the Peshitta Electronic Text Project is to stimulate Peshitta studies by making the electronic text of the Peshitta available. The first phase of this project concerns the preparation of (a) a lemmatized text of the Pentateuch; this text includes also a selection of variant readings; and (b) a running text of the other books of the Peshitta, including all the Apocrypha that have been or will be included in the Leiden Peshitta edition. In those cases where the Peshitta edition offers two parallel versions (e.g. in the case of parts of Tobit and 1 Maccabees), both versions are included in the electronic text.

Products of the first phase will become available in the near future in the and the UBS Paratexts Software and the Logos Bible Software. In will also become available in the database of the database of the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon(part of the Peshitta text is already available on this website) and the software packages of Accordance and Bible Works.

The director of this project is Wido van Peursen. For more details about the contents of the collection, its textual basis and remarks concerning individual books, see below the Introduction to the Electronic Peshitta Text.