Reconstruction of a lost Syriac text: "Apocalipsis of Baruch" and its Syriac, Arabic and Greek witnesses of the papyrus fragments from Oxyrrhinchos

In the present paper we offer a comparative analysis of the Arabic version and the Syriac text which has survived (together with the respective fragments from the Oxyrhincus) of a fragment from the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch: 12:1-5, 13:1-2.11-12, and 14:1-3. The aim of this analysis is to restitute the possible Syriac Vorlage that has not survived. At the same time we hope to demonstrate that this Syriac text used by the Arab translator was not much different from the text gathered in the unicum syriacum ambrosianum.