The Syrian Churches: Their Early History, Liturgies, and Literature: With a Literal Translation of the Four Gospels from the Peschito, or Canon of Holy Scripture in Use among the Oriental Christians from the Earliest Times

J. W. Etheridge provides a comprehensive introduction to the ancient Syrian Church before providing English translations of the four Gospels directly from the Syriac language. The object of the translation is to offer in English an accurate representation of these venerable Eastern scriptures. In order to preserve the air and manner, as well as meaning of the original, Etheridge has retained the Syrian orthography of the proper names, and has left some of the peculiar denominatives of the gospel narrative untranslated.