From Ephrem to Romanos: Interactions between Syriac and Greek in Late Antiquity
by Brock,SebastianFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-06-28
Publisher(s): Variorum
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Summary
It is often forgotten that many people in Late Antique Syria were bilingual in Syriac and Greek. The 16 articles in this volume explore different aspects of the interaction between these two literary cultures, exemplified in the works of two of the greatest Christian poets and hymnographers of the period: Ephrem the Syrian and Romanos the Melode. Among the topics covered are the legend of King Abgar and the origins of Christianity in Edessa, Syriac texts on the finding of the Cross, translations from Syriac into Greek and Greek into Syriac (with specific studies on the Aristotle commentary tradition and Hunayn's translation of Hippocrates' Aphorisms). The volume concludes with the case of a distinctive topos employed by Greek and Latin scribes, but whose earliest and latest attestations are to be found in colophons of Syriac manuscripts.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| Acknowledgements | p. x |
| Greek and Syriac in Late Antique Syria (Literacy and Power in the Ancient World, ed. A.K. Bowman and G. Woolf. Cambridge, 1994) | p. 149 |
| Eusebius and Syriac Christianity (Eusebius, Christianity and Judaism, ed. H.W. Attridge and G. Hata. Detroit, MI, 1992) | p. 212 |
| The Syriac Background to the World of Theodore of Tarsus (Archbishop Theodore: Commemorative Studies on his Life and Influence, ed. M. Lapidge. Cambridge, 1995) | p. 30 |
| From Ephrem to Romanos (Studia Patristica XX. Leuven, 1989) | p. 139 |
| Ephrem's Verse Homily on Jonah and the Repentance of Nineveh: Notes on the Textual Tradition (Polyhistor: Miscellanea in Honorem Caroli Laga Septuagenarii (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 60). Leuven, 1994) | p. 71 |
| Two Syriac Verse Homilies on the Binding of Isaac (Le Museon XCIX. Louvain-la-Neuve, 1986) | p. 61 |
| Syriac Dispute Poems: The Various Types (Dispute Poems and Dialogues (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 42). Leuven, 1991) | p. 109 |
| A Dispute of the Months and Some Related Syriac Texts (Journal of Semitic Studies XXX, no. 2. Manchester, 1985) | p. 181 |
| Tales of Two Beloved Brothers: Syriac Dialogues between Body and Soul (Studies in the Christian East in Memory of Mirrit Boutros Ghali, ed. L.S.B. MacCoull (Publications of the Society for Coptic Archaeology, North America, 1). Washington, D.C. 1995) | p. 29 |
| The Baptist's Diet in Syriac sources (Oriens Christianus LIV. Wiesbaden, 1970) | p. 113 |
| Two Syriac Poems on the Invention of the Cross (Lebendige Uberlieferung: Festschrift fur H-J. Vogt, ed. N. el-Khoury, H. Crouzel and R. Reinhardt. Beirut/Ostfildern, 1992) | p. 55 |
| Some Uses of the Term Theoria in the Writings of Isaac of Nineveh (Parole de l'Orient XX. Kaslik, 1995) | p. 407 |
| The Syriac Commentary Tradition (Glosses and Commentaries on Aristotelian Logical Texts, ed. C. Burnett (Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts 23). London, 1993) | p. 3 |
| The Syriac Background to Hunayn's Translation Techniques (Aram 3. Oxford, 1991) | p. 139 |
| Greek Words in Syriac: Some General Features (Studia Classica Israelica 15 (Studies in Memory of Abraham Wasserstein). Jerusalem, 1996) | p. 251 |
| 'The Scribe Reaches Harbour' (Byzantinische Forschungen 21. Amsterdam, 1995) | p. 195 |
| Addenda and Corrigenda | p. 7 |
| Index | p. 4 |
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