A Critical Examination of the Peshitta Version of the Book of Ezra

For the Biblical scholar, however, and especially for the textual critic, the greatest value of the Peshitta of Ezra lies in the fact taht it has in forty-two instances preserved the original reading, and therefore it must be employed to reconstruct the Hebrew text of the Massorites. --from the IntroductionCharles Arthur Hawley (b. 1889) is the author of ''The Teaching of Old Testament History,'' ''The Teaching of the Prophets,'' and ''The Teaching of Apocrypha and Apocalypse.''