"Patriarch Aphram Barsoum's al-Lu'lu' al Manthur (The Scattered Pearls) is the most extensive survey of Syriac literature ever compiled by an Eastern scholar. Unlike its European counterparts, it covers Syriac literature until the beginning of the twentieth century. The wealth o…
Die mehr als 800 Belege, die Eusebius in seinem „Onomastikon der biblischen Ortsnamen" gesammelt hatte, stammen alle aus der griechischen Überlieferung des Alten und Neuen Testaments. Die vorliegende Studie weist erstmals nach, dass Eusebius' „Onomastikon" fast ausschließlich au…
Main description: The "Onomasticon of Biblical Place Names" of the (later) Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea still represents the basis for biblical archeology and regional studies. This study investigates for the first time which Greek Bible text was used by Eusebius for his work.
In 'The Peshitta and Syro-Hexapla translations of Amos 1:3-2:16', Petra Verwijs presents the result of a detailed study about the translation techniques used by two Syriac translations of the Biblical passage indicated. The Peshitta is the translation from a Hebrew original and …
In The Peshitta and Syro-Hexapla Translations of Amos 1:3-2:16 , Petra Verwijs presents the result of a detailed study about the translation techniques used by two Syriac translations of the Biblical passage indicated. The Peshitta is the translation from a Hebrew original and t…
"The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, like many apocryphal gospels, has been much transformed over the course of its transmission. Though composed in Greek in the second century, the gospel is extant in a number of other languages and a myriad of forms. The most well-known form is a 19…
"The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, like many apocryphal gospels, has been much transformed over the course of its transmission. Though composed in Greek in the second century, the gospel is extant in a number of other languages and a myriad of forms. The most well-known form is a 19…
Introduction / Sergey Minov and Flavia Ruani -- Part I. Texts as Literature: 1. Prologues as Narthexes in Syriac Hagiographies / Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent -- 2. Hearing Sanctity: Oral Performance and Aural Consumption of Hagiographical Stories in the Late Antique and Me…