FC Burkitt proposed the theory that Rabbulas was responsible for the Peshitta, the Syriac translation of the Bible, based on a life of the bishop written around AD 450. This theory was at one point widely accepted. However, since then Arthur V��rbus (Investigations into the Text of the New Testament used by Rabbula of Edessa [Pinneburg, 1947]) has furnished evidence that the Peshitta was older than Rabbulas' time.
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