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Scribal Wit Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 198
ISBN: 9781611439045
Pub Date: 07 Dec 2013
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Texts and Studies
Description:
This book presents a detailed analysis of the Aramaic mnemonics, those short witty sentences written in Aramaic as memory aids in the margins of one of the oldest extant biblical Hebrew manuscripts, the Leningrad Codex (1008 CE). The material is presented in clear, user-friendly charts. Each mnemonic is set alongside the Hebrew verses it represents.
Syriac Christianity in the Middle East and India Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 182
ISBN: 9781463202477
Pub Date: 20 Nov 2013
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Pro Oriente Studies in the Syriac Tradition
Description:
This volume acknowledges the contributions of Syriac Christians in the fields of culture, education and civil society throughout the history in the Middle East and India, and examines the challenges of living and professing the Christian faith as a minority in a multi-religious and pluralistic society, giving special attention to religious freedom and personal status.
History of Martyrs in Palestine, by Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 156
ISBN: 9781607248989
Pub Date: 14 Nov 2013
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
This volume contains the Syriac version, with English translation and copious literary and historical notes, of Eusebius’s small book on the martyrs of Palestine, edited from a Syriac manuscript dated to 411.
The Homilies of Aphraates, The Persian Sage Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 584
ISBN: 9781607248972
Pub Date: 14 Nov 2013
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
Wright’s edition of the homilies of the early Syriac father, Aphrahat, includes the text, critical apparatus, and notes on biblical citations, which are also indexed. The preface surveys Aphrahat’s life and deals with the manuscripts used.
L'Expansion nestorienne en Asie Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 197
ISBN: 9781611438321
Pub Date: 13 Nov 2013
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Classic Archaeological Reprints
Description:
This early history of the Church of the East was part of a volume issued to commemorate the exhibition of thirty Syriac inscriptions from Central Asia at the Musee Guimet.
Colum Cille Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9781847304353
Pub Date: 07 Nov 2013
Imprint: Veritas Books
Description:
Originally published in 1997, this is a lively and readable account of the life of Colum Cille. Considered one of the three patron saints of Ireland, little is known about Colum Cille, although stories about him range from his founding a monastery on the island of Iona to starting a war by copying another man’s book. Desmond Forristal details the main events of the saint’s career and also includes the best-known tales and legends.
Collected Papers in Greek and Georgian Textual Criticism Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 308
ISBN: 9781593330989
Pub Date: 28 Oct 2013
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Texts and Studies
Description:
This volume collects together for the first time the most influential papers of the late scholar of Georgian and New Testament textual critic, J. Neville Birdsall. Professor Birdsall wrote on Greek witnesses to the New Testament text, the Georgian version of the New Testament, palaeography, patristics, and the theory of textual criticism.
Early Syriac Translation Technique and the Textual Criticism of the Greek Gospels Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 354
ISBN: 9781593330965
Pub Date: 28 Oct 2013
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Texts and Studies
Description:
Although scholars have often made inferences about the Greek texts that lay behind the Old Syriac and Peshitta versions of the Gospels, very few have ever attempted to formulate systematic rules for such inferences. This volume investigates a wide range of textual phenomena and formulates clear and simple rules for the use of Syriac texts as witnesses to the underlying Greek. It becomes possible to uncover errors that have accumulated during the evolution of the Greek New Testament textual apparatus.
Eastern Crossroads Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 430
ISBN: 9781593336103
Pub Date: 28 Oct 2013
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
Description:
This volume contains papers from the First International Congress on Eastern Christianity held in Córdoba, Spain, November 2005. The encounter of medieval Christian writers with several linguistic traditions through the Middle Ages produced one of the most important branches of Middle Eastern literature. This encounter not only changed the nature of the respective writings throughout time, but also influenced considerably the development of the legacies transmitted by the writers and the scholars of various Eastern Christian churches.
Scribal Habits of Codex Sinaiticus Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 342
ISBN: 9781593334222
Pub Date: 28 Oct 2013
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Texts and Studies
Description:
Codex Sinaiticus is one of the oldest, famous, and most important manuscripts of the Bible. At least three scribes copied the text manually, and they were faced with many decisions: What do I do when I spot an error in the text I just copied? What is the right spelling of this word?
A Short Introduction to the Tiberian Masoretic Bible and its Reading Tradition Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 154
ISBN: 9781463202460
Pub Date: 24 Oct 2013
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Handbooks
Description:
This book is intended to provide a quick introductory overview of the Tiberian Masoretic tradition of the Hebrew Bible and its background. It was this tradition that produced the great Masoretic codices of the Middle Ages, which form the basis of modern printed editions of the Hebrew Bible. Particular prominence is given to the multi-layered nature of the Masoretic tradition.
From Anglo-First-Wave towards American Second-Wave Jewish Feminism Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 282
ISBN: 9781617199158
Pub Date: 24 Oct 2013
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
This book completely redefines our understanding of fin de siècle Anglo-Jewish author Amy Levy and her writing. Demonstrating that Levy’s writing is less anti-Judaic and more profoundly influenced by the religious concerns of classical German Reformism, Luke Devine's innovative approach reveals that Levy's writing constitutes a genre whose female subjectivity evinces a concern for justice and authority that prefigures numerous aspects of Second-Wave Jewish feminist theory and its spiritual and theological underpinnings.
Language and Textual History of the Syriac Bible Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 328
ISBN: 9781611438918
Pub Date: 21 Oct 2013
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Texts and Studies
Description:
The Syriac Bible is a fascinating field to which too little research has been devoted. In the present volume, Jan Joosten gathers a number of pilot studies, published in various journals and collective volumes, shedding light on the Syriac Old Testament, New Testament, and the relation between them. A number of studies advance the claim that the Old Syriac and Peshitta gospels preserve echoes of an Aramaic gospel tradition that gives independent access to the earliest, oral traditions on the life and teaching of Jesus.
Syriac Literature Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 388
ISBN: 9781611439625
Pub Date: 18 Oct 2013
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
Description:
Despite having been written over a century ago, the 3rd edition of Rubens Duval's History of Syriac Literature remains one of the best - and most readable - introductions to Syriac literature. This edition provides the first English translation of the work, translated by Olivier Holmey.
Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 13 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 108
ISBN: 9781463202446
Pub Date: 14 Oct 2013
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies
Description:
Volume 13 includes articles by Mark Dickens, Pier Giorgio Borbone, Nicholas Al-Jeloo, Emanuela Braida, Khairy Foumia, Rima Smine, Khalid Dinno and Amir Harrak.
Deuteronomy According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9781611439304
Pub Date: 07 Oct 2013
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Surath Kthob
Description:
This volume is part of a series of English translations of the Syriac Peshitta along with the Syriac text carried out by an international team of scholars.