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2021
Abstract During late antiquity, Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic, belonging to the northwest group of Semitic languages, and originally the language of the Kingdom of Edessa and the Oshroene in Upper Mesopotamia, became the literary language of Aramaic-speaking Christians and developed under the mutual influences of both Greek and Iranian ...
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Abstract During late antiquity, Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic, belonging to the northwest group of Semitic languages, and originally the language of the Kingdom of Edessa and the Oshroene in Upper Mesopotamia, became the literary language of Aramaic-speaking Christians and developed under the mutual influences of both Greek and Iranian ...
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2023
Syriac is often referred to as the third main language of Christianity, along with Latin and Greek, and it remains a foundational classical, literary, and religious language throughout the world. Originating in Mesopotamia along the Roman and Parthian frontiers, it was never the language of a powerful state or ethnic group, but with the coming of ...
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Syriac is often referred to as the third main language of Christianity, along with Latin and Greek, and it remains a foundational classical, literary, and religious language throughout the world. Originating in Mesopotamia along the Roman and Parthian frontiers, it was never the language of a powerful state or ethnic group, but with the coming of ...
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2019
Abstract The corpus of Jewish literature of the Second Temple period is represented in the Syriac tradition by biblical pseudepigrapha (especially of apocalyptic genre) and Josephus. The extant Syriac manuscripts containing these documents belong to the period spanning the sixth to the twentieth centuries.
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Abstract The corpus of Jewish literature of the Second Temple period is represented in the Syriac tradition by biblical pseudepigrapha (especially of apocalyptic genre) and Josephus. The extant Syriac manuscripts containing these documents belong to the period spanning the sixth to the twentieth centuries.
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Journal of Semitic Studies, 1997
L'A. propose la description d'un texte ecrit sur un petit morceau de cuir dans le dialecte caracteristique des textes d'incantations syriaques de la fin de l'Antiquite. Ce texte servait d'amulette et etait destine a guerir la jeune fille sur laquelle il etait accroche, en la protegeant des esprits. L'A. propose ici une traduction de ce texte en anglais
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L'A. propose la description d'un texte ecrit sur un petit morceau de cuir dans le dialecte caracteristique des textes d'incantations syriaques de la fin de l'Antiquite. Ce texte servait d'amulette et etait destine a guerir la jeune fille sur laquelle il etait accroche, en la protegeant des esprits. L'A. propose ici une traduction de ce texte en anglais
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2017
Abstract This chapter presents a sketch of early Syriac literature during the Roman/Byzantine period, before the Arab conquests. Although its beginnings were pre-Christian, the bulk of Syriac writings is made up of typically Christian compositions, belonging mainly to the literary genres such as exegetical, dogmatic, polemical ...
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Abstract This chapter presents a sketch of early Syriac literature during the Roman/Byzantine period, before the Arab conquests. Although its beginnings were pre-Christian, the bulk of Syriac writings is made up of typically Christian compositions, belonging mainly to the literary genres such as exegetical, dogmatic, polemical ...
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2018
This essay on the history of Syriac Christianity in India offers a general introduction into the names of the currently eight-million-strong community of native Malayalam speakers with a Syriac culture: ‘Saint Thomas Christians’, ‘Syrian Christians’, and ‘Māppiḷḷa Christians’.
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This essay on the history of Syriac Christianity in India offers a general introduction into the names of the currently eight-million-strong community of native Malayalam speakers with a Syriac culture: ‘Saint Thomas Christians’, ‘Syrian Christians’, and ‘Māppiḷḷa Christians’.
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