Encore -- :(Kiraz George Anton Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage)

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Synopses and Lists : Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World

Teresa Bernheimer;Ronny Vollandt;Teresa Bernheimer;Ronny Vollandt

eBook | 2023; Vol. 00022 Please log in to see more details

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Synopses and Lists : Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World

2023; Vol. 00022

Textual practices in pre-modern societies cover a great range of representations, from the literary to the pictorial. Among the most intriguing are synopses and lists. While lists provide a complete enumeration of ideas, people, events, or terms, synopses juxtapose one against the other. To understand how they were planned, produced, and consumed, is to gain insight into the practices of what one can call management of knowledge in a time before our own. The present volume is the product of two workshops held in 2019 and 2021 as part of the research focus Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World: Texts and Ideas between Aksum, Constantinople, and Baghdad, which was generously supported and funded by the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. Aiming to understand how synopses and lists function in the literatures of the great intellectual traditions of late antiquity—the ancient Near East, ancient philosophy, and the three monotheistic religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—the volume offers a historical and transcultural perspective on synopses and lists, highlighting the centrality of these textual practices to allow storing, retrieving, selecting, and organising this knowledge. Both make deliberate – yet not always explicit – choices as to what is included and excluded, thereby creating lasting hierarchies and canons.

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Lists

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Entangled Confessionalizations? : Dialogic Perspectives on the Politics of Piety and Community Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th18th Centuries

Tijana Krstić;Derin Terzioğlu;Tijana Krstić;Derin Terzioğlu

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Entangled Confessionalizations? : Dialogic Perspectives on the Politics of Piety and Community Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th18th Centuries

2022; Vol. 00015

Historians of the early modern Ottoman Empire have long been pointing out that in the early sixteenth century the religious outlook of the sultans and the imperially sponsored hierarchy of religious scholars underwent a shift: while heretofore they had been largely unconcerned with defining, observing or enforcing a Sunni ‘orthodoxy'and ‘orthopraxy', they now became increasingly invested in precisely such a project. How did the understanding of what constituted a Sunni orthodoxy and orthopraxy evolve across the spectrum of Ottoman society between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries and how did it affect various Ottoman communities? Was it by chance or perhaps due to similar social and political processes that the growing polarization between Sunnism and Shi‘ism, as well as contemporaneous building of Ottoman and Safavid empires, precisely coincided with the Catholic-Protestant (and later Calvinist) polarization and the rise of confessional states in Europe? Were these contemporaneous projects of defining correct belief and/or practice in some sort of dialogue, and is this dialogue traceable in the sources left by various individuals and communities living in or passing through Ottoman domains between c. 1500 and c. 1750? The present volume explores these questions and early modern Muslim, Jewish and Christian discourses on communal belonging, ‘orthodoxy'and ‘orthopraxy'through the framework of a shared ‘confessional age', thus obviating the top-down model of inter-confessional relations in which Christians and Jews are always seen solely as Ottoman subjects. It offers a unique perspective on Ottoman society and early modern politics of piety by approaching empire's religious groups not as homogenous blocks of ‘Muslims', ‘Jews'and ‘Christians'but rather highlighting intra-communal diversity. By adopting a wider Eurasian perspective, contributors explore the repercussions of the developments within various Ottoman communities as far afield as the Safavid Empire, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Russia, and Europe, and vice versa. The papers focus on specific people who disseminated ideas about ritual and creedal normativity and social clusters through which such ideas spread. At the same time, they also explore the limits of such normative discourses and their agents, as well as the role of alternative ideas about confessional and communal belonging informed by various forms of ambiguity.

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Religions--Relations--History - Religion and politics

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The Good Christian Ruler in the First Millennium : Views From the Wider Mediterranean World in Conversation

Philip Michael Forness;Alexandra Hasse-Ungeheuer;Hartmut Leppin;Philip Mich...

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The late antique and early medieval Mediterranean was characterized by wide-ranging cu... more

The Good Christian Ruler in the First Millennium : Views From the Wider Mediterranean World in Conversation

2021; Vol. 00092

The late antique and early medieval Mediterranean was characterized by wide-ranging cultural and linguistic diversity. Yet, under the influence of Christianity, communities in the Mediterranean world were bound together by common concepts of good rulership, which were also shaped by Greco-Roman, Persian, Caucasian, and other traditions. This collection of essays examines ideas of good Christian rulership and the debates surrounding them in diverse cultures and linguistic communities. It grants special attention to communities on the periphery, such as the Caucasus and Nubia, and some essays examine non-Christian concepts of good rulership to offer a comparative perspective. As a whole, the studies in this volume reveal not only the entanglement and affinity of communities around the Mediterranean but also areas of conflict among Christians and between Christians and other cultural traditions. By gathering various specialized studies on the overarching question of good rulership, this volume highlights the possibilities of placing research on classical antiquity and early medieval Europe into conversation with the study of eastern Christianity.

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Authority--Religious aspects--Christianity - Church history--To 1500

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CURATING THE SYRIAC LITERARY HERITAGE IN EGYPTIAN MONASTERIES: A NEWLY IDENTIFIED NUMERAL SYSTEM IN SYRIAC (BRITISH LIBRARY, ADD. 14587).

FORNESS, PHILIP MICHAEL

Academic Journal | Journal of Semitic Studies; Spring2022, Vol. 67 Issue 1, p151-168, 18p Please log in to see more details

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CURATING THE SYRIAC LITERARY HERITAGE IN EGYPTIAN MONASTERIES: A NEWLY IDENTIFIED NUMERAL SYSTEM IN SYRIAC (BRITISH LIBRARY, ADD. 14587).

Journal of Semitic Studies; Spring2022, Vol. 67 Issue 1, p151-168, 18p

Syriac manuscripts feature several systems of numerals, and earlier studies have identified three based on the Syriac alphabet. Marginal notes found in the manuscript London, British Library, Add. 14587 preserve a fourth and previously undescribed alphabetic numeral system. After presenting this system and discussing the evidence that led to its identification, this article argues on palaeographic grounds that the late eighth century forms a terminus post quem for the numerals found in this manuscript. Analyses of a donation note and another manuscript further suggest that the numerals were added by a monk or monks from the Syriac tradition residing in Egypt, associated with either a monastery in Upper Egypt or the Monastery of the Syrians (Dayr al-Suryan) in Wadi al-Naṭrun. In either case, the alphabetic numeral system found in the margins of this manuscript reflects the efforts of Syriac monastic communities in Egypt to curate the Syriac literary heritage and shape the way others encountered it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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SYRIAC alphabet - SYRIAC manuscripts - SYRIAC language - MONASTERIES - MONKS

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Material Aspects of Reading in Ancient and Medieval Cultures : Materiality, Presence and Performance

Anna Krauß;Jonas Leipziger;Friederike Schücking-Jungblut;Anna Krauß;Jonas L...

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Material Aspects of Reading in Ancient and Medieval Cultures : Materiality, Presence and Performance

2020; Vol. 00026

This publication seeks to endeavour the relationship between material artefacts and reading practices in ancient and medieval cultures.While the acts of reception of written artefacts in former times are irretrievably lost, some of the involved artefacts are preserved and might comprise hints to the ancient reading practices. In form of case studies, the contributions to this volume examine various forms of written artefacts as to their implications on modes of reading. Analyzing different Qumran scrolls, codices, Tefillin, Mezuzot, magical texts, tablets, bricks, and statues as well as meta-textual and iconographic aspects, the articles inquire the possibilities of how to correlate material aspects to assumed modes of reception and practices of reading. The contributions stem from Egyptology, Papyrology, Qumran Studies, Biblical Studies, Jewish Studies, Ancient Christianity, and Islamic Studies.In total, this volume contributes to the research on practices of reception in times past and demonstrates the potential hidden in text-bearing artefacts.

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History, Ancient

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Creating Standards : Interactions with Arabic Script in 12 Manuscript Cultures

Dmitry Bondarev;Alessandro Gori;Lameen Souag;Dmitry Bondarev;Alessandro Gor...

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Creating Standards : Interactions with Arabic Script in 12 Manuscript Cultures

2019; Vol. 00016

Manuscript cultures based on Arabic script feature various tendencies in standardisation of orthography, script types and layout. Unlike previous studies, this book steps outside disciplinary and regional boundaries and provides a typological cross-cultural comparison of standardisation processes in twelve Arabic-influenced writing traditions where different cultures, languages and scripts interact. A wide range of case studies give insights into the factors behind uniformity and variation in Judeo-Arabic in Hebrew script, South Palestinian Christian Arabic, New Persian, Aljamiado of the Spanish Moriscos, Ottoman Turkish, a single multilingual Ottoman manuscript, Sino-Arabic in northwest China, Malay Jawi in the Moluccas, Kanuri and Hausa in Nigeria, Kabyle in Algeria, and Ethiopian Fidäl script as used to transliterate Arabic. One of the findings of this volume is that different domains of manuscript cultures have distinct paths of standardisation, so that orthography tends to develop its own standardisation principles irrespective of norms applied to layout and script types. This book will appeal to readers interested in manuscript studies, sociolinguistics, literacy studies, and history of writing.

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Literature (General)

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Transformations of Romanness : Early Medieval Regions and Identities

Walter Pohl;Clemens Gantner;Cinzia Grifoni;Marianne Pollheimer-Mohaupt;Walt...

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Millennium überschreitet Grenzen, Grenzen zwischen den Epochen und regionalen Räumen w... more

Transformations of Romanness : Early Medieval Regions and Identities

2018; Vol. 00071

Millennium überschreitet Grenzen, Grenzen zwischen den Epochen und regionalen Räumen wie auch Grenzen zwischen den Disziplinen. Die Schriftenreihe Millennium-Studien ist, genauso wie das Jahrbuch, international, interdisziplinär und epochenübergreifend ausgerichtet. Das Herausgebergremium und der Beirat repräsentieren ein breites Fächerspektrum: Kunst- und literaturwissenschaftliche Beiträge kommen ebenso zu ihrem Recht wie historische, theologische und philosophische, und die Millennium-Studien bieten gleichermaßen Raum für Arbeiten zu den lateinischen und griechischen wie zu den orientalischen Kulturen. In die Studien finden einschlägige Monographien und Sammelwerke aus dem gesamten Themenspektrum Aufnahme, zudem Kommentare und Editionen. Publikationssprachen sind vornehmlich Deutsch und Englisch; die Aufnahme französischer, italienischer und spanischer Arbeiten ist möglich. Falls Sie ein Manuskript für die Studien einreichen möchten, bitte wir Sie, sich an den fachnächsten Herausgeber zu wenden: Wolfram Brandes, Frankfurt (Byzantinistik und Frühes Mittelalter): brandes@rg.mpg.de Peter von Möllendorff, Gießen (Gräzistik): peter.v.moellendorff@klassphil.uni-giessen.de Dennis Pausch, Dresden (Latinistik): dennis.pausch@tu-dresden.de Rene Pfeilschifter, Würzburg (Alte Geschichte): Rene.Pfeilschifter@uni-wuerzburg.de Karla Pollmann, Bristol (Frühes Christentum und Patristik): K.F.L.Pollmann@bristol.ac.uk Alle Manuskripte werden von dem jeweiligen Herausgeber und von einem externen Gutachter beurteilt. Dabei gilt das Single-blind peer review-Verfahren.

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Civilization, Medieval--Roman influences - National characteristics, Roman

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Manuscript Discoveries and Debates over Orthodoxy in Early Christian Studies: The Case of the Syriac Poet-Theologian Jacob of Serugh

Fomess, Philip Michael

Academic Journal | Harvard Theological Review. July, 2022, Vol. 115 Issue 3, p416, 25 p. Please log in to see more details

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المناطق الحضريَّة في العراق والعالم في القرن الأَول - الثالث الميلاديّ بحسب المصادر السريانية - الجزء الأول. (Arabic)

مازن زارا

Academic Journal | Athar alrafedain; Jun2023, Vol. 8 Issue 2, p243-273, 31p Please log in to see more details

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المناطق الحضريَّة في العراق والعالم في القرن الأَول - الثالث الميلاديّ بحسب المصادر السريانية - الجزء الأول. (Arabic)

Athar alrafedain; Jun2023, Vol. 8 Issue 2, p243-273, 31p

Copyright of Athar alrafedain is the property of Republic of Iraq Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research (MOHESR) and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

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IRAQ - ANCIENT cities & towns - RESEARCH questions - LANGUAGE policy - INFORMATION resources - HISTORIANS

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The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature

George Thomas Kurian;James D. Smith;George Thomas Kurian;James D. Smith

eBook | 2010; Vol. 00002 Please log in to see more details

The written word is one of the defining elements of Christian experience. As vigorous ... more

The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature

2010; Vol. 00002

The written word is one of the defining elements of Christian experience. As vigorous in the 1st century as it is in the 21st, Christian literature has had a significant function in history, and teachers and students need to be reminded of this powerful literary legacy. Covering 2,000 years, The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature is the first encyclopedia devoted to Christian writers and books. In addition to an overview of the Christian literature, this two-volume set also includes 40 essays on the principal genres of Christian literature and more than 400 bio-bibliographical essays describing the principal writers and their works. These essays examine the evolution of Christian thought as reflected in the literature of every age.The companion volume also features bibliographies, an index, a timeline of Christian Literature, and a list of the greatest Christian authors. The encyclopedia will appeal not only to scholars and Christian evangelicals, but students and teachers in seminaries and theological schools, as well as to the growing body of Christian readers and bibliophiles.

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Christian literature--Encyclopedias

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The Gendered Body in Verse: Jacob of Serugh and Romanos Melodos on the Woman with a Flow of Blood.

Walsh, Erin

Academic Journal | Journal of the Bible & its Reception. 2022, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p1-26. 26p. Please log in to see more details

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Ortaçağ İslâm Dünyasında Süryani Tarih Yazıcılığı.

TOMAKİN, Ahmet Yasin

Academic Journal | Sirnak University Journal of Divinity Faculty / Sirnak Üniversitesi Ilahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi. 2017, Vol. 8 Issue 18, p233-254. 22p. Please log in to see more details

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Manuscript Discoveries and Debates over Orthodoxy in Early Christian Studies: The Case of the Syriac Poet-Theologian Jacob of Serugh.

Forness, Philip Michael

Academic Journal | Harvard Theological Review; Jul2022, Vol. 115 Issue 3, p416-440, 25p Please log in to see more details

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Manuscript Discoveries and Debates over Orthodoxy in Early Christian Studies: The Case of the Syriac Poet-Theologian Jacob of Serugh.

Harvard Theological Review; Jul2022, Vol. 115 Issue 3, p416-440, 25p

The uncovering of manuscripts over the last one hundred years has repeatedly changed how early Christian history is told. With no signs of this trend abating, this article seeks to take stock of how scholars respond to manuscript discoveries by focusing on three debates over the orthodoxy of an early Christian figure that extend over two hundred and fifty years. New manuscript evidence sparked no less than three debates over the christological views of the Syriac author Jacob of Serugh (d. 520/521) from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. In the first debate, the arrival of manuscripts in Western Europe led to a conflict between the Maronite scholars who viewed Jacob as a Chalcedonian thinker and certain textual evidence that suggested otherwise. The second debate began in the late nineteenth century after manuscripts from Egypt arrived in London that contained Jacob's extensive epistolary corpus, which includes clear expressions of non-Chalcedonian, miaphysite christology. A new acquisition by the Vatican Library in the mid-twentieth century featured a previously unknown homily that included two lines that could be interpreted in a Chalcedonian manner. This inspired several Western scholars to dig yet deeper into the manuscripts to resolve this long-standing debate over his christological views. The focused analysis of the pendulum swings initiated by manuscript discoveries in the scholarly discourse surrounding Jacob of Serugh serves as a mirror for self-reflection on the way that scholars discuss a past whose many unknowns still await discovery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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EIGHTEENTH century - INTROSPECTION - MANUSCRIPTS - PRIMITIVE & early church, ca. 30-600 - LIBRARY acquisitions

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From Amida to Famagusta via Cairo: The Syrian Scribe Yūsuf ibn Sbāṭ in His Eastern Mediterranean Context c. 1350–1360.

Croq, Alice

Academic Journal | Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean; Dec2021, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p235-256, 22p Please log in to see more details

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From Amida to Famagusta via Cairo: The Syrian Scribe Yūsuf ibn Sbāṭ in His Eastern Mediterranean Context c. 1350–1360.

Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean; Dec2021, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p235-256, 22p

This article is based on the analysis of two manuscripts in the Arabic language produced by the West Syrian scribe Yūsuf ibn Sbāṭ of Amida/Diyarbakır, in 1352 in Cairo and in 1358 in Famagusta, respectively. The former is one of the earliest complete and dated manuscripts written in Garshuni (Arabic in Syriac characters), whereas the latter is written in a fine, Arabic hand. By following Yūsuf across the eastern Mediterranean, this article seeks to explain his journey and scribal practices in light of contemporary cultural and socio-economic trends. Retrospectively, it also aims to demonstrate how Yūsuf's case can shed light on the history of Syriac Christians living outside their historical homeland. It thus investigates the various ways they dealt with a challenging multi-cultural context, and how the latter influenced several aspects of their habits and practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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FAMAGUSTA (Cyprus) - CAIRO (Egypt) - SYRIAC Christians - MANUSCRIPTS - GARSHUNI

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The Mathematical Sciences in Syriac: From Sergius of Resh-‘Aina and Severus Sebokht to Barhebraeus and Patriarch Ni‘matallah.

Takahashi, Hidemi

Academic Journal | Annals of Science. Oct2011, Vol. 68 Issue 4, p477-491. 15p. Please log in to see more details

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A Winged Word on Marriage: Socrates and the Gnomological Tradition.

Lin, Lijuan

Academic Journal | Oriens; 2020, Vol. 48 Issue 3/4, p251-281, 31p Please log in to see more details

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A Winged Word on Marriage: Socrates and the Gnomological Tradition.

Oriens; 2020, Vol. 48 Issue 3/4, p251-281, 31p

A foreign saying on marriage became widely known in China through Qian Zhongshu's 1947 novel Fortress Besieged. As the novelist tells us, this saying has its source in both English and French literature, and in its different versions, marriage is either likened to a besieged fortress or a bird cage. This paper examines the origin and transmission of the saying in Greek, Arabic and Syriac sources, and argues that this saying originated in the so-called literature of the Christianized Socratic-Cynic philosophy, which once flourished in Syria. It became popular in the Byzantine and Arabic world after having been included into several famous Greek and Arabic gnomologies. Then it was introduced into modern languages, developed into different versions, finally came to China and became a household word among Chinese people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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German Orientalism in Times of Turmoil: The Kahle-Strothmann Correspondence (1933 through 1938, 1945 through 1950).

SCHMIDTKE, SABINE

Academic Journal | Arabist - Budapest Studies in Arabics; 2022, Vol. 43, preceding p1-308, 314p Please log in to see more details

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PROLEGOMENA TO A NEW EDITION OF ELIYA OF NISIBIS'S KITĀB AL-TURJUMĀN Fī TA'LīM LUĠAT AL-SURYĀN.

MCCOLLUM, ADAM

Academic Journal | Journal of Semitic Studies; Autumn2013, Vol. 58 Issue 2, p297-322, 26p Please log in to see more details

Eliya of Nisibis (975-1046), Patriarch of the Church of the East, has earned a notewor... more

PROLEGOMENA TO A NEW EDITION OF ELIYA OF NISIBIS'S KITĀB AL-TURJUMĀN Fī TA'LīM LUĠAT AL-SURYĀN.

Journal of Semitic Studies; Autumn2013, Vol. 58 Issue 2, p297-322, 26p

Eliya of Nisibis (975-1046), Patriarch of the Church of the East, has earned a noteworthy position among both Syriac and Arabic writers for his works in grammar, lexicography, historiography and theology. His Kitãb al-turjumdn, a topically classified (i.e. non-alphabetic) Syriac-Arabic glossary, serves as an important monument to both Syriac and Arabic in a Christian and philosophical setting at an important juncture for both of these languages. In this work, Eliya lists vocabulary in both languages for general topics, as well as theological and philosophico-scientific terms, and at the end he offers a long list of colours, verbs and various phrases. Eliya's book is relatively well attested in manuscripts from both the western and eastern Syriac traditions, but there has been some confusion on the manuscripts that actually contain the work. In 1636 a version of the work appeared with a Latin translation, but without naming Eliya at all, and in 1879 the industrious Paul de Lagarde published the first real edition of the Kitāb, though with some shortcomings (a not insignificant one being that the Syriac was printed in Hebrew square script and the Garšūnī in Arabic script, instead of the whole work being in Syriac script as it is in most known manuscripts). Eliya's work has somewhat recently been discussed by scholars, but only cursorily. The aim of this study is to provide a fuller introduction and analysis of the work and its extant manuscripts; this goal is made the more possible by the recent discovery from a collection in Aleppo of what is the earliest dated manuscript known (1523/4), and five more manuscripts from Horns, Mardin, and northern Iraq, only two of which are of relatively recent date. The prospects for a new edition of Eliya's important lexico- graphical work are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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LITERARY criticism - SYRIAC literature - ARABIC literature - LEXICOGRAPHY - HISTORIOGRAPHY - SYRIAC language

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