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Syriac Exegetical Tradition

EDITIONS OF IMPORTANT TEXTS

Old Testament

New Testament

Poetry

Old Testament:
New Testament:

Translations from Greek

 

On Early Writers

 

On Later Writers

Old Testament

New Testament

Syriac Studies Introduction

NB: the bibliographies below are mostly presented in chronological order of publication.  ** Denotes useful introductory works. 

Works Cited

INTRODUCTIONS

Histories of Syriac Literature

Historical Background

No single work available, but the following are important:

For the Islamic period:

Topography

Miscellaneous, and collections of articles

Bibliographies

History of Syriac Studies

Text Series

Main relevant periodicals:

 

EARLY SYRIAC CHRISTIANITY (General)

 

THE ORIGINS AND CHARACTER OF EARLY SYRIAC CHRISTIANITY (Topical)

Earliest Syriac Christianity

Judaism and Early Syriac Christianity

Early Syriac Theology

Syriac Christianity at Edessa

ADDAI LEGEND

EDESSA ICON AND TURIN SHROUD

EVIDENCE OF THE SYRIAC OLD TESTAMENT

EARLY INSCRIPTIONS AND THREE LEGAL DOCUMENTS IN SYRIAC (DATED 240, 242, AND 243 CE)

 

DISCERNING THE CHARACTER OF EARLY EDESSENE CHRISTIANITY: SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

THE DEVELOPMENT OF CLASSICAL SYRIAC

ARCHAIC FEATURES IN EARLY WRITINGS

EARLY SYRIAC WRITINGS

BARDAISAN

PSEUDO-MELITO, Apology

MARA bar SARAPION, Letter to his Son

MENANDER, Sentences

ODES of SOLOMON

ACTS of THOMAS

SYRIAC BIBLE

(OT) 

(NT) 

 

GREEK INTO SYRIAC AND SYRIAC INTO GREEK

General

Syriac into Greek

AHIQAR

AESOP

KALILAH and DIMNAH

SINDBAD

ALEXIS

MARY, niece of Abraham

PSEUDO-METHODIOS

Greek into Syriac

SECUNDUS

ALEXANDER

ARISTOTLE, Organon

POPULAR PHILOSOPHY

MEDICINE

MYTHOLOGY

Translation Technique

Some Individual Translators

6th Century

  • Sergius of Resh'aina
  • Probus(?)

7th Centry

  • Paul of Edessa [Gregory of Nazianzus]
  • Paul of Tella [Syrohexapla]
  • Thomas of Harkel [Harklean NT]
  • Severus Sebokht
  • Athanasius of Balad
  • Jacob of Edessa

9th Century

  • Hunayn ibn Ishaq
  • Ishaq ibn Hunayn
  • (and many others)

 

Poetry and the Bible in Syriac Tradition

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