The People and the Peoples: Syriac Dialogue Poems from Late Antiquity (Journal of Jewish Studies Supplement Series) - Softcover

Brock, Sebastian P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0957522819 ISBN 13: 9780957522817

Publisher: Journal of Jewish Studies, 2020

Synopsis

The main purpose of the book is to provide the Syriac texts and annotated English translations of four anonymous dialogue poems (with separate introductions to each) where the protagonists are, respectively, Synagogue and Church, Sion and Church, Jesus and the Synagogue, Jesus and the Pharisees.

Syriac texts of the first two dialogue poems are critical editions based on the oldest manuscripts; the first replaces an earlier edition (1902) based on a very corrupt manuscript, and the second and third have only previously been published in Sughyotho mgabyotho (Select dialogue poems; Monastery of St Ephrem, NL, 1982), intended for a Syrian Orthodox readership. The Syriac text of the fourth is primarily based on earlier editions in F. Feldman, Syrische Wechsellieder von Narses (Leipzig, 1896) and A. Mingana, Narsai Doctoris syri homiliae et carmina II (Mosul, 1905), where the poem is almost certainly wrongly attributed to Narsai.

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About the Author

Sebastian P. Brock, FBA is acknowledged as one of the foremost scholars in the field of Syriac studies today. He is a former Reader in Syriac Studies at the University of Oxford and currently an Emeritus Fellow at Wolfson College. Born in 1938, after attending Eton College, he studied Classics and Oriental Studies at Cambridge University and wrote his doctoral dissertation on the text of Septuagint at Oxford. He has taught at the Universities of Birmingham, Cambridge and Oxford (from 1974 until his retirement in 2003). He is the recipient of a number of honorary doctorates. He has published extensively in the field of Syriac literature, liturgical texts, monastic literature and has edited a number of new texts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Journal of Jewish Studies
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0957522819
• ISBN 13: 9780957522817
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 150