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CODEX EPHRAEMI SYRI

A Greek codex (fully named Ephraemi Syri rescriptus Parisiensis), written in the 5th or 6th century c.e., probably in Egypt. Originally consisting of the entire Bible, the manuscript was unbound and reused in the 12th century. The codex is thus a palimpsest and owes its name to the second text, a Greek translation of treatises by the Syrian Church Father Ephraem, which was written over the original. The codex presently consists of 209 leaves: 64 leaves of the OT and 145 of the NT. Every canonical book of the NT is represented; only portions of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Canticles, Job, Wisdom, and Sirach from the OT are extant. Corrections were made to the biblical text in the 6th and again in the 9th century. The codex is important for textual criticism, although the manuscript remains difficult to decipher due to its palimpsest character.

Tawny L. Holm






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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