Thesaurus syriacus by Robert Payne Smith (et al.) (Vols. 1-2. Oxonii: E typographeo Clarendoniano, 1879-1901) is now available to download for free at...
Nikolai Seleznyov
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Aug 1, 2007 8:48 am
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Greetings, I am a scholar of early Arabic literature and I am curious if there are any good studies of Syriac epistolography concentrating on the forms of...
Maurice, This is a very limited and not precisely related answer to your first question. Patriarch Mar Afrem Barsoum has published in 1909 (reprint 1932, 1969)...
Greetings, Maurice, The following book might be remotely relevant: Eva Riad, Studies in the Syriac Preface (Uppsala, 1989). I don't remember if she discusses...
Dominique Gonnet <http://www.sources-chretiennes.mom.fr/> http://www.sources-chretiennes.mom.fr submits this question from Maxime Yevadian (Lyon) : I have...
Gonnet
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Aug 7, 2007 10:11 am
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Dear Dominique Gonnet, I am not qualified to state if the text you are referring too is generally accepted or not, however, I have found another citation with...
J Thomas Phillips
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Aug 7, 2007 12:53 pm
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Dear Dominique: Bauer's thesis is not generally accepted, but it has been adopted by a number of scholars since. Recently Ross (Steven K. Ross, 'Roman Edessa:...
Robert Morehouse
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Aug 7, 2007 7:33 pm
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Dear Robert Morehouse: Thank you for additional citations regarding the issue of "Orthodoxy and Hersey", these will be helpful in my own investigative...
To Maxime Yevadian per Dominique Gonnet On Orthodoxy and Heresy, note the added material in the English version, which discusses the reception of Bauer's...
Sigrid Peterson
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Aug 10, 2007 3:16 am
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Dear Maurice, It's not exactly what you are looking for, but in ff. 51a-60 of ms. Mingana 16 you can find "A collection of forms of letters to be written to...
Mingana manuscript 142 contains 2 Christian Arabic texts in Syriac characters. It was probably copied c 1690 The second work compares the alleged falsehoods of...
Here is a link to a large image of the catalogue entry: http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/mithras/mingana142.png and a smaller image of the same page ...
The Stephen and Catherine Pappas Patristic Institute of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology invites you to attend its fourth annual thematic ...
As it is hidden away in a volume on the Didache, I allow myself to give the following reference to an article on this subject: R.B. ter Haar Romeny,...
Can anyone give me an idea of how far a day's journey [if possible, a) on horseback and b) in some sort of horse-drawn wagon/cart, etc.] would likely have been...
In my student years, for questions like these we were referred to L. Casson, Travel in the ancient world, Toronto 1974 (repr. in the nineties). I know Casson...
Dear Hugoye list members, please note an error in the price of the book below, now corrected in red. George A. Kiraz George A. Kiraz, M.St. (Oxon), M.Phil.,...
Not sure how reliable or relevant this may be, but H.V.Morton in one of his 1930's travel books about the Near East recalls that before the First World War it...
Tentatively, it looks like a burial plaque. The penultimate line reads, I think, mnoH abrohom aHo d-obed w-shoaH — "the late Abraham brother who perishing...
Does anyone in the Hugoye list know how one can get this book: Gurguis `Awwad, A Bibliography of Syriac Subjects in the Arabic Periodicals, volume 1, Baghdad...