New Testament

===Syriac===
{{Main|Syriac versions of the Bible}}
[[File:RabulaGospelsFolio04vCanonTable.jpg|thumb|The [[Rabbula Gospels]], [[Eusebian Canons]].]]
Syriac is an [[Eastern Aramaic languages|Eastern Middle Aramaic]] spoken in [[Syria]] and [[Upper Mesopotamia]]. A cousin, the [[Western Aramaic languages|Western Middle Aramaic]] language known as [[Jewish Palestinian Aramaic]], was spoken in [[Syria Palaestina|Roman]] and [[Palaestina Secunda|Byzantine Palestine]]. Several Syriac translations were made and have come to us. Most of the Old Syriac and Philoxonian versions have been lost.

[[Tatian]] created the [[Diatessaron]], a [[gospel harmony]] written in Syriac around 170 and the earliest form of the Gospel not only in Syriac but probably also in [[Armenian language|Armenian]].

In the 19th century, manuscript evidence was discovered for an "Old Syriac" version of the four distinct (i.e., not harmonized) gospels. These "separated gospels" ({{lang-syc|ܐܘܢܓܠܝܘܢ ܕܲܡܦܲܪ̈ܫܸܐ|Ewangelion da-mp̄arrašē}}), though old, are later than the Diatessaron. The Old Syriac gospels are fragmentarily preserved in two manuscripts: the fifth-century [[Curetonian Gospels]] and the [[Syriac Sinaiticus]] from the fourth or fourth century.

No Old Syriac manuscripts of other portions of the New Testament survive, though Old Syriac readings, e.g. from the [[Pauline epistles]], can be discerned in citations made by Eastern fathers and in later Syriac versions. The Old Syriac version is a representative of the [[Western text-type]]. The [[Peshitta]] version was prepared in the beginning of the fifth century. It contains only 22 books; neither the [[Catholic epistles]] ([[Second Epistle of Peter]], the [[Second Epistle of John|Second]] and [[Third Epistle of John]], and the [[Epistle of Jude]]) nor the [[Book of Revelation]] were part of this translation).

The [[Philoxenian]] probably was produced in 508 for [[Philoxenus of Mabbug|Bishop Philoxenus of Mabbug]].{{sfn|Metzger|1977|pp=3–98}}