Humanities
Pages: 494
ISBN: 9781607248606
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Pages: 338
ISBN: 9781607248613
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
These two volumes present a German translation of Barhebraeus’s longer Syriac grammar, which covers both the eastern and western dialects of Syriac. In addition, Moberg includes an introduction, textual apparatus, and a lengthy appendix on grammatical terminology.
Pages: 338
ISBN: 9781607248613
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Pages: 494
ISBN: 9781607248606
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
These two volumes present a German translation of Barhebraeus’s longer Syriac grammar, which covers both the eastern and western dialects of Syriac. In addition, Moberg includes an introduction, textual apparatus, and a lengthy appendix on grammatical terminology.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 294
ISBN: 9781607248767
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
This volume contains a unique theological-philosophical text in Syriac known as the Book on the Knowledge of the Truth, or the Cause of Causes. The author describes it as “a common book for all peoples under heaven.”
Pages: 856
ISBN: 9781607248408
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Pages: 714
ISBN: 9781607248415
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
Ciakciak’s dictionary is one of the standard resources for the study of classical Armenian. The words are defined in both Armenian and Italian. Following prefaces in both languages, the author gives some helpful grammatical reference tables.
Pages: 714
ISBN: 9781607248415
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Pages: 856
ISBN: 9781607248408
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
Ciakciak’s dictionary is one of the standard resources for the study of classical Armenian. The words are defined in both Armenian and Italian. Following prefaces in both languages, the author gives some helpful grammatical reference tables.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 162
ISBN: 9781607248200
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
Using manuscripts from the British Museum, Sachau here presents a number of unique Syriac texts translated from Greek, including philosophical, medical, and maxim texts. The appendix includes astronomical texts from Sergius of Reshaina and Severus Sebokt.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 534
ISBN: 9781607249092
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
This volume presents, in Syriac and English, Job of Edessa’s encyclopedic work covering all manner of scientific topics. It will be of interest to readers interested in Aristotelianism and the intellectual climate of the Middle East around the ninth century.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 504
ISBN: 9781607248446
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
From the storied transmission of this famous collection of Indian fables came two Syriac translations. This is an edition of the earlier translation (re-edited after the editio princeps) with German translation and notes.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9781607248620
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
Moberg had already published a German translation of Barhebraeus’s longer Syriac grammar based on a critically established Syriac text and here presents that text in this volume, along with an introduction (in French) and two indices (Syriac and French).
Format: Hardback
Pages: 206
ISBN: 9781607248668
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
This volume contains four East Syriac treatises: two dealing with words forms and lexicography, two dealing with the interpretation of difficult words in the Bible. The book will be of interest to students of Syriac grammar and biblical interpretation.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9781607249344
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
Drawing on the more progressed fields of Greek and Roman and Arabic rhetoric, Haefeli here presents Aphrahat’s style in terms of numerous stylistic categories. Naturally, the work is brimming with examples (in Syriac and German) from Aphrahat.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 372
ISBN: 9781607247951
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
Jessie Payne Margoliouth here continues the work of her father’s Thesaurus Syriacus, including new words and meanings that had been discovered after publication of the Thesaurus. The Supplement gives definitions in English (not Latin).
Format: Hardback
Pages: 297
ISBN: 9781607247845
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
The ninth-century Syriac-Arabic lexicon of Bar Ali stands with Bar Bahlul’s as a main witness to contemporary Syriac lexicography. Hoffmann presents the first half of the work—the second was edited by Gottheil—with a critical apparatus.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 130
ISBN: 9781607248774
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
Baethgen produces here both the Syriac text and a German translation with notes, including remarks on Elias’s grammar in connection with Greek and Arabic grammatical traditions; the Syriac text includes textual notes.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 504
ISBN: 9781607248439
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
This second Syriac version of the famous collection of fables of Indian origin was translated from the Arabic version of ibn al-Muqaffa‘. Wright gives the Syriac text with notes, a lengthy introduction, and select glossary.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 306
ISBN: 9781607247821
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
The encyclopedic lexicon of Bar Bahlul (10th century) explains Syriac words, as well as Greek words met in Syriac literature, in Syriac and Arabic. Vol. 3 includes an introduction and indices for the individual languages and biblical passages cited.
