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Lucubrationes Syro-Graecae - Primary Source Edition
Author: Anton Baumstark
Publisher: Nabu Press
Published: 2013-12-31
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781295433728
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Julius Africanus and the Early Christian View of Magic
Author: Francis C. R. Thee
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9783161445521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Porphyry, ›On Principles and Matter‹
Author: Yury Arzhanov
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-08-02
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 3110747022
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Syriac treatise published in the present volume is in many respects a unique text. Though it has been preserved anonymously, there remains little doubt that it belongs to Porphyry of Tyre. Accordingly, it enlarges our knowledge of the views of the most famous disciple of Plotinus. The text is an important witness to Platonist discussions on First Principles and on Plato’s concept of Prime Matter in the Timaeus. It contains extensive quotations from Atticus, Severus, and Boethus. This text thus provides us with new textual witnesses to these philosophers, whose legacy remains very poorly attested and little known. Additionally, the treatise is a rare example of a Platonist work preserved in the Syriac language. The Syriac reception of Plato and Platonic teachings has left rather sparse textual traces, and the question of what precisely Syriac Christians knew about Plato and his philosophy remains a debated issue. The treatise provides evidence for the close acquaintance of Syriac scholars with Platonic cosmology and with philosophical commentaries on Plato’s Timaeus.
Cesti
Author: Iulius Africanus
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-07-04
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 3110286807
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Iulius Africanus (3rd cent.) is a fascinating writer in a period of transition. Widely travelled, he belongs to the intellectual élite of the second sophistic. His two main works present a similar encyclopedic approach, but very different contents. He can be considered the “father of Christian chronography”, since he authored the first Christian world chronicle (Chronographiae). However, he also wrote a comprehensive and multifaceted manual of many fields of knowledge, where the religious character is open to debate. The preserved fragments of the Cesti treat military, technical, medical and many other topics. These texts are presented in an entirely new critical edition. The transmission of the texts as well as questions of authenticity are highly complex. Compared to the previous edition (Vieillefond 1970), considerable progress has been reached in terms of both, quantity and quality of the material. Hitherto unknown texts have been included, and in the case of dubious authorship all necessary information is provided for a realistic picture of the transmission. In the introduction, all relevant channels of transmission are discussed. The edition is accompanied by notes and a new English translation.
Sergius of Reshaina: Introduction to Aristotle and his Categories, Addressed to Philotheos
Author: Sami Aydin
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-08-29
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 900432514X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The physician and commentator Sergius of Reshaina (d. 536) composed two related texts in Syriac about the philosophy of Aristotle, chiefly dealing with themes discussed by Aristotle in his Categories, but also with his teaching on space as found in the Physics. This book presents a critical edition and English translation of the shorter of these texts. A survey of Sergius’ life and works is given in the introduction and the intellectual context of his education in Alexandria is outlined, with focus on the medical and philosophical curricula of the Alexandrian school. Sergius’ line of thought is clarified and his text is compared to Greek commentaries on the Categories that also present the teaching of his Neoplatonist master Ammonius Hermeiou.
Lexicon Syriacum
Author: Carl Brockelmann
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2004-08-30
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 1592448410
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The study of languages forms the foundation of any study of ancient societies. While we are dependent upon archaeology to unearth pottery, tools, buildings, and graves, it is through reading the documentary evidence that we learn the nuances of each culture--from receipts and letters to myths and legends. And the access to those documents comes only through the basic work of deciphering scripts, conjugating verbs, untangling syntax, and mastering vocabulary. Ancient Language Resources brings together some of the most significant reference works for the study of ancient languages, including grammars, dictionaries, and related materials. While most of the volumes will be reprints of classic works, we also intend to include new publications. The linguistic circle is widely drawn, encompassing Egyptian, Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Phoenician, Hattic, Hittite (Nesite), Hurrian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Ethiopic, Arabic, Greek, Coptic, Latin, Mandaean, Armenian, and Gothic. It is the hope of the publishers that this will continue to encourage study of the ancient languages and keep the work of groundbreaking scholars accessible. --K. C. Hanson Series Editor
Studia patristica
Author: Elizabeth A. Livingstone
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Papers presented to the International Conference on Patristic Studies. 2d- 1955-
John of Scythopolis and the Dionysian Corpus
Author: Paul Rorem
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780198269700
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book casts light on the figure of John of Scythopolis, the sixth-century theologian who composed a series of annotations to the works attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite (whose conversion by St Paul is mentioned in Acts 17: 34). It surveys John's sources, methods, and doctrinal concerns in the context of the important theological debates that wracked the eastern churches in the aftermath of the Council of Chalcedon.
