This may be of interest.
I haven't seen it and cannot judge it. I am just forwarding it.


Best wishes
Wieland
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:35:12 +0100 (BST)
From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...>
Reply-To: bookoflife@...
To: bookoflife@...
Subject: [bookoflife] Classical Armenian Bible (The Zohrab
Bible)

Greetings,

Bibles.org.uk in collaboration with the Bible Society of Armenia
published the critical edition of the Classical Armenian Bible
(aka "The Zohrab Bible"). It is available as of now at our
website:

http://www.bibles.org.uk

The edition is split into 3 volumes due to Lulu's 800-page limit
per volume:

Vol I: Genesis - Nehemiah (773 pages)
Vol II: Esther - Ezekiel (799 pages)
Vol III: New Testament and Additions (538 pages)

This is the ancient Armenian text of 5th century translated out
of the Greek (Septuagint) and Syriac (Peshitta) sources and
should not be confused with the modern Armenian translations
based on the MT. I wrote a very brief Introduction in English
specifically for this edition but I didn't go into the history
of the text and the purposes/plan behind this work because these
issues were very thoroughly explained in the original
Introduction written by Dr Zohrabian which is included in the
Vol I of our edition.

The base text and the apparatus (of over 30,000 readings) is
based on the work of Dr H Zohrabian (western spelling
"Zohrapean") published by the Mechitarist Congregation of St
Lazarus in 1805 in Venice. This is why it is commonly known as
"The Zohrab Bible". It is the only critical edition of this
ancient text and so it is cited by the scholarly editions such
as BHS, NA27, Cambridge LXX and others whenever they refer to
the "arm" witness. The original has been out of
print for many years and the only way to access the great wealth
of material collected by Dr Zohrabian was (until today) via poor
quality facsimile edition available at $200 (inc shipping). Our
edition costs half as much and is much
more readable because:

a) it was re-typeset using modern technologies

b) it uses a larger font size both for the text and apparatus,
as well as "ancient editorial" material throughout the Bible
(ancient armenian chapter lists, ancient introductions to
individual books etc).

c) last but not least --- all the abbreviations used in the
original have been expanded. (I should have mentioned that the
original 1805 edition uses abbreviations for nomina sacra and
many common words which makes it harder to
read for those without prior experience with such abbreviated
texts).

All 82 books are included in exactly the same order as in the
original 1805 edition.

We spent almost 2 years on typesetting this work and many years
prior to this were spent on entering the actual data into
electronic form.

The book is typeset using the latest version of the
state-of-the-art technologies such as XeLaTeX and OpenType and
professionally designed (commercial, bought by myself) fonts
with several dozens of ligatures which simulate the "look and
feel" of the typefaces used in original 1805 edition.
All other features of the original such as lettrines, ornamental
decorations, pictures etc are also preserved.

We hope you enjoy studying this Bible and would appreciate any
feedback you might have.

Shalom
Tigran

PS. As with all Bibles.org.uk publications the books are sold
strictly at the cost of printing+shipping. These prices are set
by the print-on-demand provider (Lulu.com in our case) and we
have no influence over them.