Aramaic Old and New Testament Manuscript Medeltidshandskrift 58

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Medeltidshandskrift 58 is a critically important manuscript of the Aramaic Old Testament or Peshitta Tanakh. It also contains the Aramaic New Testament or Peshitta. It is owned by St. Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library at Lund University in Sweden.

Medeltidshandskrift 58 is an Eastern manuscript of the Aramaic Old Testament and Aramaic New Testament which was copied in Tikrit in Iraq by the scribe Mattai, son of Yochanan around 1205 C.E. Its importance lies in the fact that it contains a very rare Massorah of the Syriac (Eastern Aramaic) Old and New Testament texts, similar in concept to the Hebrew Massorah used in the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible.

In addition to the Aramaic Old and New Testaments, Medeltidshandskrift 58 also contains works of Epiphanius bishop of Salamis, Gregory bishop of Nazianzus and Jacob bishop of Edessa.

High-resolution images of Medeltidshandskrift 58 are available at Lund University's St. Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library website.

Many thanks to Lund University for making these images available to the public, allowing people to have a greater understanding of the Aramaic Old and New Testaments. Would that other Universities and Libraries around the world followed their lead, and allowed their Biblical manuscripts to be photographed and the images made available to the public as PNG or JPEG images which are accessible to all, rather than gathering dust in a basement somewhere, or locked inside proprietary electronic formats which will be obsolete in a few years. Let YHWH's Word be available to all, rather than jealously guarded by 'scholars' in universities of the world who for the most part can neither read these texts, nor believe they are the inspired Word of YHWH, nor understand their importance.

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