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"From the 6th century onwards, Syriac patristic florilegia - collections of Greek patristic excerpts in Syriac translation - progressively became a prominent form through which Syriac and Arab Christians shaped their knowledge of theology. In these collections, early Greek Christian literature underwent a substantial process of selection and re-organization. The papers collected in this volume study Syriac florilegia in their own right, as cultural products possessing their own specific textuality, and outline a phenomenology of Syriac patristic florilegia by mapping their diffusion and relevance in time and space, from the 6th to the 17th century, from the Roman Empire to China"--

Christian literature, Syriac --- Syriac literature --- Manuscripts, Syriac --- History and criticism. --- Syriac manuscripts --- Syriac language --- Syriac Christian literature

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Aloni focuses on three genres of the Zakho community's oral heritage: the proverb, the enriched biblical narrative and the folktale. Each chapter draws on the author's own fieldwork among members of the Zakho community now living in Jerusalem. He examines the proverb in its performative context, the rewritten biblical narrative of Ruth, Naomi and King David, and a folktale with the unusual theme of magical gender transformation. Insightfully breaking down these examples with analysis drawn from a variety of conceptual fields, Aloni succeeds in his mission to put the speakers of the language and their culture on equal footing with their speech.

Syriac literature. --- Aramaic literature --- History and criticism. --- Middle Eastern literature

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Sergius of Reshaina (d. 536) is a major figure in the history of the Syriac reception of Aristotle's logic. He studied philosophy and medicine in the late 5th century in Alexandria with the famous Ammonius Hermeiou, whose lectures formed the basis for Sergius' main philosophical work, his extensive Commentary on the Categories. In this treatise, Sergius adapted for his Christian audience the Alexandrian educational model and exegesis of Aristotle logical writings and in this way influenced subsequent centuries of Aristotelian studies in Syriac. The commentary contains an extensive introductory part which deals with the traditional set of preliminaries (prolegomena), e.g., the general division of sciences, the scope of Aristotle's logic in general and of his treatise Categories in particular, etc. Moreover, it includes excurses in natural philosophy and contains extensive "ations from Aristotle's Physics. Thus, Sergius' treatise not only introduced the tradition of exegesis of Aristotle to the Syriac world, but provided Syriac readers with a general introduction to philosophy and logic and thus paved the way for the transmission of Greek sciences and philosophy from Alexandria to Baghdad.

PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical. --- Alexandrian Neoplatonism. --- Ammonius Hermeiou. --- Syriac philosophical tradition. --- history of philosophy.

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In this critical exploration of the role of manuscripts in textual scholarship, Liv Ingeborg Lied studies the Syriac manuscript transmission of 2 Baruch. These manuscripts emerge as salient sources to the long life of 2 Baruch among Syriac speaking Christians, not merely witnesses to an early Jewish text. Inspired by the perspective of New Philology, Lied addresses manuscript materiality and paratextual features, the history of ownership, traces of active readers and liturgical use, and practices of excerption and re-identification. The author's main concerns are the methodological, epistemological and ethical challenges of exploring early Jewish writings that survive only in Christian transmission. Through engagement with the established academic narratives, she retells the story of 2 Baruch and makes a case for manuscript- and provenance-aware textual scholarship.

22.014 --- 229*214 --- 229*214 Syrische Baruch --- Syrische Baruch --- 22.014 Bijbel: tekstgeschiedenis; tekstkritiek:--inleidingen; werkinstrumenten --- Bijbel: tekstgeschiedenis; tekstkritiek:--inleidingen; werkinstrumenten --- Bible. --- Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch --- Apocalypse of Baruch (Syriac) --- 2nd Baruch (Apocryphal book) --- 2 Baruch (Apocryphal book) --- Second Baruch (Apocryphal book) --- II Baruch (Apocryphal book) --- Syriac Baruch (Apocryphal book) --- Baruch (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Buch Baruch --- First Baruch (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Book of Baruch --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Religion / Biblical Studies / Old Testament --- Religion / Biblical Studies --- Religion --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- manuscript studies --- New Philology --- Syriac manuscripts --- Methods, epistemology and ethics --- Jewish Texts in Christian transmission --- Altes Testament --- Kirchengeschichte --- Criticism, Textual --- Manuscripts --- Manuscripts.

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Maaloula, the last place in the world where the language of Christ, Aramaic, is spoken ... Nestled in the hollow of the Qalamoun mountains, the small village has never ceased to fascinate all travelers since the end of the 18th century. Indeed since that time, it has remained a sort of Orientalist "commonplace" where European scholars and missionaries thronged until the first half of the 20th century. The greatest orientalists like Theodor Nöldeke, adventurers such as Richard Burton and even Alexandre Dumas knew about the existence of Maaloula and devoted a few pages to him. Today, Maaloula has become a major tourist center which attracts no less than 150,000 annual visitors, Europeans of course but especially Iranians who come to seek in addition to the picturesque places, the illusions of a return to the sources. By crossing archives and speeches on Maaloula for almost two centuries, Frédéric Pichon brings to light, along with the Christian memory of a rural Syrian community, the multiple facets of the identity of the last "Aramaeans" in Syria.

Syriac christians --- Syriac Christians --- Group identity --- Christians --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Middle East --- Religious adherents --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Syrian Christians --- History --- History. --- Maʻlūlā (Syria) --- Historiography. --- Maʻlūlah (Syria) --- arabisme --- islam --- Mandat français --- identité --- folklorisation --- orientalisme --- sanctuaires partagés --- christianisme --- néoaraméen occidental --- anthropologie religieuse