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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"syriac"”.
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The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew
… changing religious landscape. This situation led Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew scholars to develop new fields of linguistic science in order to better analyse the languages of the Bible and the Qurʾān. Part of this work dealt with the issue of vocalisation in Semitic scripts, which lacked the letters …
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Language Contact and Inner-Syriac Developments: Lexical Study of the Peshitta Genesis
… by identifying language contact (Aramaic-Greek-Syriac) and corpus contact (LXX-P, T-P) on the one hand, and inner-Syriac developments on the other. Using case studies from Peshitta Genesis, the thesis responds to proposals of Septuagint or Targumic influence upon the Peshitta, and demonstrates …
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The Persian Persecution: Martyrdom, Politics, and Religious Identity in Late Ancient Syriac Christianity
<p>According to the Syriac <italic>Acts of the Persian Martyrs</italic>, the Sasanian king Shapur II began persecuting Christians in Persia soon after Constantine's death in 337 CE. Previous studies of the <italic>Acts</italic> (and related material) set Shapur's persecution within the context of …
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A Diachronic and Areal Perspective on Subordination in Syriac and North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic
… and areal perspective on subordination in Syriac and North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA), tracing its development from Late Antiquity to the present. The first two chapters outline the aim and scope of the thesis and also provide an introduction to the development of Syriac and NENA verbal …
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The Oriental Orthodox Communion in Modern Egypt: The Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, and Syriac Orthodox Churches, 1805 CE- Present
… century CE Council of Chalcedon. The Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, and Ethiopian churches demonstrate a profound sense of theological and cultural unity. This study delineates the historical underpinnings of this unity set in Egypt, illustrating how this communion contributes to the vitality of …
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A Critical Comparative Scriptural Analysis of Genesis 1:1-5 based on Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Greek, and Coptic Manuscripts
… of Gen. 1:1-5 from Hebrew to Aramaic, Syriac, Greek, and Coptic, their translations suggest what they were doing as scribes, their ideologies, and their methodology for their word choices. Fascinatingly, Gen. 1:1-5 meant different things for interpreters of the same biblical passage …
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Sanctifying Boldness: New Testament Women in Narsai, Jacob of Serugh, and Romanos Melodos
… of their audiences. These male poets, writing in Syriac and Greek, explored the hermeneutical possibilities of female voices and perspectives. While previous scholars have shown that early Christian authors portrayed female martyrs and ascetics subverting normative behavioral expectations, I argue …
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Amidst the Trees: Encountering the Arboreal in Late Antiquity
… that world. This relationship is seen across Syriac, Latin, and Greek writers, with chapters devoted to Ephrem the Syriac, Augustine of Hippo, and Origen of Alexandria. These writers, far from being unique, offer us a gaze onto the tree as a meaningful other in cultural and ecological life.
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The homilies of Mose bar Kepha on the early chapters of the Gospels.
Jhis thesis is a study and partial edition of a Syriac text known as the Book of Homilies attributed to the Jacobite (i.e. Syrian Crthodox) bishop of Mosul Mose bar Kepha. The Book of Homilies is a collection of approximately thirtyeight treatises for the festivals of the liturgical year. The …
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A Critical Edition of the Hexaplaric Fragments of Genesis
… since they provide Aristarchian signs. Princeton Syriac manuscript will be used as well. This chapter also incorporates the works of Françoise Petit, a four-volume critical edition of the catena manuscripts of Genesis and the edition of the Catena Graecae in Genesim et in Exodum. Her work …
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Books, Homilies, and Medicine: Sogdian Christians and Christian Networks along the Silk Roads
… comparisons with the Christian Sogdian and Syriac literary corpuses, among others. Consideration of material culture, particularly as concerns manuscripts, also features prominently in this study. Within the burgeoning scholarship on Christianity outside of the Roman empire, the high degree …
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Haunted Paradise: Remembering and Forgetting Among Ascetics of the Egyptian Desert
… Interpreting texts (in Coptic, Latin, Greek, Syriac, and Classical Arabic) and archaeological remains associated with the northwestern Egyptian desert, my dissertation investigates ascetic ideas about the relationship between memories and places: memory-acts as preserved in the liturgical and …
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The Book of Resh Melle by Yoḥannan bar Penkaye: an Introduction to the Text and a Study of its Literary Genres
… and translations of Resh Melle. A survey of Syriac literature is undertaken to explain the idiomatic meaning of the title. A description of the four manuscripts of Resh Melle which were consulted by this study is also given, along with information on the other extant (but unedited) …
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A Critical Edition of the Hexaplaric Fragments of Job 22-42
… available evidence from Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Syriac, and Armenian sources. Chapter 1 provides a summary of the history of the Hexapla and hexaplaric research. This chapter also presents the methodology for the project and an introduction to interpreting the apparatuses. Chapter 2 gives a full …
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A critical edition of the hexaplaric fragments of Ecclesiastes
… Bible manuscripts, marginal readings in Syriac from the Syro-Hexapla, the works of early church fathers, and the Catena traditions. The chapter also takes note of certain source materials that were not available at the time that the dissertation was completed. Chapter 3 constitutes the …
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The Textual Relation of the Peshitta of Ezekiel 1-12 to MT and to the Ancient Versions (Tg-J and LXX)
<p><em>Problem</em> . The dilemma of the Syriac version is its mysterious provenance and the direct relationship it may have to the other versions (particularly <strong>G </strong>[Septuagint] and <strong>C</strong><sup>J </sup>[Targum Jonathan]). Thus some scholars have automatically discarded or …