Abstract Some of the ancient manuscripts and versions Mark 15.15 add phrase ‘to them’ after verb ‘[Pilate] delivered [Jesus]’, suggesting that Pilate Jesus to Jewish crowd who subsequently crucified him. This textual variant was well-established in Syriac Ethiopic traditions while it remained marginal Greek, Latin, Coptic traditions. pattern suggests those translators readers gospels lived on E...

Transitivity and Aspect in Sahidic Coptic consists of three studies united by the common topic voice alternations Sahidic. Having established that verbal system is based on split causativity (for term see Kulikov L.I., “Split causativity: remarks correlations between transitivity, aspect, tense”), work introduces concept an aspect-transitivity grid, which unmarked infinitival form ascribed voic...