The letter of Mara bar Serapion: the “puzzle” from the Late Antiquity [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. ФилологияThis article is devoted to the study of an important Syriac work, the letter of Mara bar Serapion. Using the methods of literary and rhetorical analysis, the author examines the content and the form of one of the series of paradigms presented in the text,
Sofia Fomicheva
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The Remains of the Jew: Imperial Christian Identity in the Late Ancient Holy Land [PDF]
, 2005 The Remains of the Jew: Imperial Christian Identity in the Late Ancient Holy ...
Andrew Jacobs
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El Martirio de Ariano y los Cuatro Protectores en un palimpsesto arameo cristiano palestinense inédito, Monasterio de Santa Catalina (Sinai, Arabic NF 66) [PDF]
, 2017 Among the New Finds in a storage chamber in St Catherine’s Monastery 1975 a number of Christian Palestinian Aramaic palimpsests came to light. Some of them feature martyr stories that have been rarely attested, and for one the Greek text witnesses are ...
Müller-Kessler, Christa
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‘What About the Dog?’: Tobit’s Mysterious Canine Revisited. [PDF]
, 2014 Readers have long wondered what is the meaning of the dog that briefly appears in the Jewish fairy tale known as the Book of Tobit. This article considers common answers such as influence from Ahikar, the Odyssey, influence of Persian culture and ...
Naomi Susan Schwartz Jacobs
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Journal Of Babylon Center For Humanities Studies, 2018 The most important feature of any language is that of mutual influence among them. Language may affect one another. Each language takes a second. With the help of time and space factors, the languages overlap.
Ayad Mohammed Hussain اياد محمد حسين +1 more
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An Investigation of Refusal Strategies as Used by Bahdini Kurdish and Syriac Aramaic Speakers
Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018 For the purpose of achieving a successful communication, issues such as the appropriateness of speech acts and face saving become essential. Therefore, it is very important to achieve a high level of pragmatic competence in speech acts. Bearing this in mind, this study was conducted to investigate the preferred refusal strategies Kurdish and Syriac ...
Dilgash M.Shareef +2 more
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The enigmatic Hebrew word ‘אפים ’ in 1 Samuel 1:5
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological StudiesThe Hebrew word ‘אפים’ in Samuel 1:5 presents significant challenges for both ancient translations and modern English translations of the Bible. In ancient texts, the Masoretic text presents ‘אַפָּיִם’ or ‘nostrils’ (face or anger).
Philip S. Chia
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In search of traces of the mandrake myth: the historical, and ethnobotanical roots of its vernacular names. [PDF]
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2021 Dafni A +11 more
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Proposal for encoding the Mandaic script in the BMP of the UCS [PDF]
, 2008 This is a proposal to encode the Mandaic script in the international character encoding standard Unicode. This set of characters was published in Unicode Standard version 6.0 in October 2010.
Everson, Michael
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“May I treasure up the words in my heart!”: Syriac Culture in Modern Aramaic Oral Tradition [PDF]
Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies, 2011 Modern Aramaic philology is a research field that has attracted the attention of few scholars and vernacular literature preserved in manuscripts appears indeed to be a rather marginal phenomenon in comparison with both oral tradition and Classical Syriac writing (copying of the classical heritage and composition of new original texts).
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