This book is a response to a desire expressed by the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) who called for a diachronic study of the results of the historical-critical method. T
Carbajosa examines how the Syriac version of the Psalter differs from the Hebrew Septuagint of which it is a translation. One of his concerns is to back-translate Syriac variations as clues to the wor
