Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage

Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage
Author: Sebastian P. Brock
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781593337148

The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (GEDSH) is the first major encyclopedia-type reference work devoted exclusively to Syriac Christianity, both as a field of scholarly inquiry and as the inheritance of Syriac Christians today. In more than 600 entries it covers the Syriac heritage from its beginnings in the first centuries of the Common Era up to the present day. Special attention is given to authors, literary works, scholars, and locations that are associated with the Classical Syriac tradition. Within this tradition, the diversity of Syriac Christianity is highlighted as well as Syriac Christianity's broader literary and historical contexts, with major entries devoted to Greek and Arabic authors and more general themes, such as Syriac Christianity's contacts with Judaism and Islam, and with Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, and Georgian Christianities.

The Laughable Stories

The Laughable Stories
Author: Bar Hebraeus
Publisher: Gorgias PressLlc
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781593330163

This is the first complete edition containing 727 "laughable stories," of Bar-Hebraeus's humorous stories. It was "the child of the compiler's old age," and says much for the broadmindedness and versatility of the learned Bar-Hebraeus.

The Aristotelian Tradition in Syriac

The Aristotelian Tradition in Syriac
Author: John W. Watt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2019-02-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429817487

This volume presents a panorama of Syriac engagement with Aristotelian philosophy primarily situated in the 6th to the 9th centuries, but also ranging to the 13th. It offers a wide range of articles, opening with surveys on the most important philosophical writers of the period before providing detailed studies of two Syriac prolegomena to Aristotle’s Categories and examining the works of Hunayn, the most famous Arabic translator of the 9th century. Watt also examines the relationships between philosophy, rhetoric and political thought in the period, and explores the connection between earlier Syriac tradition and later Arabic philosophy in the thought of the 13th century Syriac polymath Bar Hebraeus. Collected together for the first time, these articles present an engaging and thorough history of Aristotelian philosophy during this period in the Near East, in Syriac and Arabic.

The Chronography of Bar Hebraeus

The Chronography of Bar Hebraeus
Author: Gregory Bar Hebraeus
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781593330569

This is the standard edition of the chronicle of Bar Hebraeus in Syriac and English translation. It gives the political history of the world from the creation to the year AD 1286.

Bar Hebraeus

Bar Hebraeus
Author: Dioskoros Gozarto
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-10-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781611432350