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Old Syriac Version
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Old Syriac Version. The Syriac translation of the NT which circulated in the Syriac-speaking Church before the construction of the
Peshitta version in the 5th cent. Only two MSS are known, both of the Gospels, but the existence of a Syriac text of Acts is attested by a commentary on it.
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Syriacs on the Kurds: some Syriac registers on Kurdistan from Urumiyah.(Report)
Magazine article from: International Journal of Kurdish Studies; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Syriac literature flourished from the third century...early Christianity in Mesopotamia. Edessene Syriac was accepted as the main language of all...2) From the fifth century onwards some Syriac chroniclers have had something to say about...
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Studies on the syriac appocryphal Psalms
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Studies on the Syriac Apocryphal Psalms, by H. F. Van Rooy...beyond those canonical 150. The five Syriac apocryphal psalms, numbered 151-155...their existence in their catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the Vatican Library, published...
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Studies on the Syriac Apocryphal Psalms.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Hebrew Studies Journal; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; STUDIES ON THE SYRIAC APOCRYPHAL PSALMS. By H. F. van Rooy...Cloth, $70.00. In the modern study of Syriac literature, all roads appear to lead...Assemani's magisterial catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the Vatican Library (Bibliotheca...
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J.F. Coakley. The Typography of Syriac: A Historical Catalogue of Printing Types, 1537-1958.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; J.F. Coakley. The Typography of Syriac: A Historical Catalogue of Printing Types...272 pp.; US $75.00 ISBN 1584561920 Syriac is a Semitic language and belongs to a...Christian communities in the Near East. Syriac, which remains a liturgical language...
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The Scattered Pearls: The History of Syriac Literature and Sciences
Magazine article from: The Muslim World; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; The Scattered Pearls: The History of Syriac Literature and Sciences By Ignatius Aphram...The Scattered Pearls: The History of Syriac Literature and Sciences was originally...most inclusive and exhaustive study of Syriac literature. This classic work by Ignatius...
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You may think you're speaking Lebanese, but some of your words are really Syriac.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon); 11/25/2008; 700+ words
; ...Michael Frey Summary: Did you speak any Syriac today? If you had an extended conversation...languages. BEIRUT: Did you speak any Syriac today? If you had an extended conversation...element of this heritage is the influence of Syriac or Aramaic terms and even grammatical...
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Syriac Christians
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 6/4/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...The region is the ancestral home of Syriac Orthodox Christians, who keep alive the...Twenty years ago, more than 60,000 Syriac Christians lived in this region, but...Turkish state and Kurdish rebels has hit the Syriac community hard. They've come under...
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Comparative Edition of the Syriac Gospels, Aligning the Sinaiticus, Curetonianus, Peshitta and Harklean Versions.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Comparative Edition of the Syriac Gospels, Aligning the Sinaiticus...has prepared for understanding the Syriac New Testament, including a six-volume...greatly facilitate using the various Syriac versions of the Synoptic Gospels...
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The Old Syriac Gospel of the Distinct Evangelists: A Key-Word-in-Context Concordance
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; JEROME ALAN LUND, The Old Syriac Gospel of the Distinct Evangelists...v + 1692-2449. $480. The Old Syriac translation of the NT was completed...distinguish it from the Diatessamn, the Syriac church referred to this version as...
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The Old Testament in Syriac according to the Peshitta Version. Part 5, Concordance. Volume 1, The Pentateuch
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Omitted (...) The Old Testament in Syriac according to the Peshitta Version. Part...printed volume is an invaluable aid in Syriac studies and research. It measures 30...particles (...), very useful Latin-Syriac and English-Syriac "vocabularies...
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Syriacs
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Syriacs ETHNONYMS: East Syrians...xE9; , Syrian Jacobites "Syriac" is both a lingual and a group...those Christians who employ the Syriac language in their church liturgies...those who had recourse to Syriac historically are the Jacobites...
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Syriac Versions of the Bible
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Syriac Versions of the Bible. These are of special...their early date and the natural accuracy of Syriac scholars. The chief versions of the OT...Peshitta), this version was used only by Syriac-speaking Christians, for whom it is still...
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Syriac
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Syriac , late dialect of Aramaic , which is a West...Mesopotamia and Syria gave the Greek name Syriac to the Aramaic dialect they spoke when the...of "pagan" or "heathen." The oldest Syriac script, which dates back to the 1st cent...
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Old Syriac Version
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Old Syriac Version. The Syriac translation of the NT which circulated in the Syriac-speaking Church before the construction of the Peshitta version in the 5th cent. Only two MSS are known, both of the Gospels, but the existence of a Syriac...
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Nicolaus of Damascus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...lost. It was, however, translated into Syriac in the ninth century; and a few scattered...denied by Drossaart Lulofs, that this Syriac translation was made by Hunayn ibn Ishaq...physician at Baghdad. The fragments of the Syriac translation of the De plantis consist...
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