From manuscript catalogues to a handbook of Syriac literature: Modeling an infrastructure for Syriaca.org [PDF]
Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, 2017 Despite increasing interest in Syriac studies and growing digital availability of Syriac texts, there is currently no up-to-date infrastructure for discovering, identifying, classifying, and referencing works of Syriac literature.
Nathan P. Gibson +2 more
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Material philology and Syriac excerpting practices: A computational-quantitative study of the digitized catalog of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Library. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThis study explores the literary practice of excerpting in Syriac manuscripts through a computational-quantitative analysis, contributing to the emerging field of Syriac material philology.
Noam Maeir
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Beauty in the Christian Life according to St Ephraim the Syrian [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2021 The article examines the concept of beauty in Christian anthropology using the writings of Ephrem the Syrian. The interpretation of the biblical verse about the creation of man in God’s image is analysed using the hymns of a fourth-century Syriac poet as
Sebastian Paul Brock
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Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2021 This study intends to focus on the vicinity between Kurdish and Syriac languages and the need for interchangeability between two different languages and peoples because of daily commerce, habits and common culture and proverbs of the surrounding areas ...
Samer Soreshow Yohanna
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A field-study on describing the Syriac manuscripts preserved in the depository of the O.A.O.C.
Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2023 The Chaldean Antonian Order of St. Hormizd (O.A.O.C.) has always taken care of archival material and ancient books and manuscripts. Recently the Order gave an opportunity to the whole world to study these manuscripts and divulge them in the most modern ...
Samer Soreshow Yohanna +1 more
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The Spiritual Senses and Discernment in the Syriac Fathers [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2019 The article discusses some basic anthropological concepts characteristic of the early Syriac ascetic tradition where a key method of describing the human spiritual structure is to draw analogies; in the present case this is between the limbs of the human
Sebastian Paul Brock
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The complexity of the relationship of vocalisation signs of Semitic pointing systems
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 This article has a few goals. The first goal is to discover the development of Semitic pointing systems such as Babylonian Hebrew (both simple and complex), Tiberian Hebrew, Palestinian Hebrew, Samaritan Hebrew, Syriac (both Western [Jacobite] and ...
Philip Suciadi Chia
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Entangled Literary Genres in Syriac from Malabar in the Aftermath of the Synod of Diamper (1599)
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2022 During the second half of the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries, the Syriac literary heritage of the Malabar Christians shifted from a standard East Syriac (“Nestorian”) canon of texts to a Catholic post-Tridentine literary ...
Radu Mustaţă
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Processing Tools for Greek and Other Languages of the Christian Middle East [PDF]
Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, 2018 This paper presents some computer tools and linguistic resources of the GREgORI project. These developments allow automated processing of texts written in the main languages of the Christian Middel East, such as Greek, Arabic, Syriac, Armenian and ...
Bastien Kindt
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Two Nineteenth-Century Syriac Orthodox Colophons Giving Accounts of The Hamidian Massacres
Études Arméniennes Contemporaines, 2022 This article introduces two late nineteenth-century colophons written by Syriac Orthodox scribes outside Anatolia commenting on the series of massacres occurring in 1894-1896 across the Ottoman Empire better known as the “Hamidian Massacres” after the ...
Simon Luke Robinson Burke
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