Dear All, This message was forwarded to one of the Byzantine lists to which I belong. I pass it on for your interest. BTW, these are the two major ...
lindawi@...
Nov 1, 2007 3:37 pm
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Hello. I'm looking for information on the Syriac word mphashqana (??????), "instructor, expositor, commentator, interpreter, translator," including who was...
Hi Mark, I've just been reading Adam Becker's 'Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom'. The mphashqana (ܡܦܫܩܢ) was the title of the most senior teacher...
Dear George, As we had a machine like that at the Peshitta Institute, I have asked Konrad Jenner about it. He remembers that the late Wim Baars was involved in...
For what it is worth, in 1980/81 I purchased a new Estrangela typewriter from a typewriter dealer in New York City who specialized in creating typewriters in ...
Richard J. Saley
saley@...
Nov 4, 2007 11:20 pm
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Dear All, Two Syriac ( www.kenshrin.com and www.ankawa.com ) announced, in their most recent Arabic Web bulletins, the publication by Fr. Zakaria Zeytoun (Mar...
http://aramaicdesigns.rogueleaf.com/sudoku/?script=estrangela For all of you Sudoku lovers who just -happen- to be into Syriac Studies: This is what happens...
Dear All, Perhaps someone could help me by clarifying something. Voobus in his History of the School of Nisibis refers to a text as Sharfeh Patr. 80. When I...
Adam H. Becker
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Nov 7, 2007 7:36 pm
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Maybe these articles will be of help for you? - Parisot, J., "La bibliothque du sminaire syrien de Charf," Revue de l'Orient chrtien 4 (1899), 150-174....
Dear Adam, MS. Sharfeh Patr. 80 is a manuscript not in the original Charfeh collection catalogued by Armalet, but in the Patriarchal (Rahmani) Collection, for...
takahashi@...
Nov 8, 2007 2:31 am
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Concerning Fr. Zakaria Zeytoun's English-Syriac Dictionary, announced a few days ago, the author's electronic address is now the following:...
In Ms. Mingana 481 ff.221v-225v there is a mysterious text in Garshuni which refers to Zoroaster in these terms: "Zoroaster the Magian said to his disciples...
The translated/transliterated passage seems to be from pages 2-6 of the Garshuni PDF Many thaks for posting this Philip ... Garshuni ... said ... eats ... ...
I'm still looking at collections of quotes by pagan philosophers used for Christian apologetic purposes in the Syriac and Arab worlds, and I wonder if someone...
Dear Roger, This periodical was first published in 1936 by the St-Saviour Melchite Monastery (Jeata, Saida, Lebanon). You could try first in writing to the...
Les Peres grecs dans la tradition syriaque (The Greek Fathers in the Syriac Tradition) ** The 4th volume of the "Etudes syriaques" collection published...
Briquel Chatonnet
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Nov 13, 2007 4:26 pm
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We are seeking qualified individuals to prepare a first translation of the following two volumes: BAUMSTARK, ANTON, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur : mit...
Kristian Heal
kristian_heal@...
Nov 16, 2007 2:19 am
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Dear Kristian, Jeanne-Nicole is already translating Bamstark for Gorgias Press. George A. Kiraz ... George A. Kiraz, M.St. (Oxon), M.Phil., Ph.D. (Cantab) ...
The Symposium Syriacum and Conference of Christian Arabic Studies will be held in Granada (Spain) from 22nd to 27th of September 2008, hosted by the ...
Ignacio Carbajosa
icarbajosap@...
Nov 21, 2007 10:22 am
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Kristian. What timeline do you have in mind for the Patrologia. IT would be a fun project. I used to teach Latin and would like to think about doing it if you...
Russellapck@...
Nov 22, 2007 5:18 pm
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Last I knew, Pere Lavenant in Rome was working on a translation and update of Ortiz de Urbina, but it has been many years. Does anyone know the status of his...
Edward G Mathews Jr
egmathews@...
Nov 22, 2007 5:25 pm
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Dear Friends, I am happy to announce the publication of The Quran in Its Historical Context (Routledge 2007). In fact, this book may be of particular interest...
Gabriel S Reynolds
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Nov 25, 2007 9:29 pm
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I've just had a good experience dealing with this university library in Beirut, and I thought that what I did and how it worked might be useful to others, and...
Roger's email made me think of asking the same library if they have in PDF fomat old issues of al-Macriq. They responded within 5 minutes! The answer, alas,...
I know that the Bodleian has what looks like a complete set too. The British Library also seems to have a complete set (http://tinyurl.com/35bx6c) and they're...
I have a short Garshuni text which I would like to get transliterated and translated. I'd be prepared to pay $150 for this. A PDF (7mb) of the ms (28 small...
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