People, A chap named Mikael Oz has kindly typed up for me the text (in Estrangelo Edessa) of Eusebius of Caesarea's Encomium on the Martyrs. I don't seem able...
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Dear colleagues, J.B. SEGAL in his "Edessa, `The Blessed City'" (Oxford, 1970) mentions two examples of "traces of a serpent cult at Edessa" (p. 106): - a...
Orhay, son of Hewya (vocalisation uncertain) as the first king of Urhay (Edessa) Chronicle of Zuqnin (Pseudo-Dionysius) J-B. Chabot, (Incerti auctoris)...
Dear list members, I was wondering about the Syriac term 'Resh Abâhâtâ' and its (various) meanings. In the same vein, what about the history of the terms...
Dear All, I disagree with Segal and agree with Jan, but at the same time I wonder whether Aphrahat's references to Mt5v13 (for example, Wright, p103 line 14...
Dear All, I don't have the Bar Hebraeus reference at hand either but it must be from the Chronicon Ecclesiasticum where he mentions a few gnostic sects, mostly...
Emmanouela Grypeou
grypeou@...
Jul 6, 2006 7:27 pm
1820
The Barhebraeus reference is from the (civil/political) Chronicon, the last sentence of the entry for the reign of Trajan, p.52, l. 11-12, in Bedjan's edition,...
takahashi@...
Jul 7, 2006 3:03 am
1821
Many thanks to everyone for the help! For those intersted in Ophite Gnosticism in Syria, see Gero, S., "Ophite Gnosticism according to Theodore bar Koni's...
Hello, Can someone tell me in which work Severus Sebokht made the following remark: I will omit all discussion of the science of the Indians, ... , of their...
Hello, There is a story in Thomas of Marga’s Book of Governors about Bastohmagh, the father of the East-Syrian Patriarch Mar Isho’yahb III. of Adiabene. ...
Hello Roger, I do not know the answer to your specific question. However, here are a few sketchy pieces of information on Severus Sabukht or Sebokht, some of ...
Basham's book does quote this, on a separate page after the dedication. Unless I missed it, he doesn't name the work, which is odd, given the book's big ...
According to google book search's scan of page 48 of A History of Mathematical Notations, by Florian Cajori (1993): "The earliest-known reference to Hindu...
... Many thanks indeed! From this: http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol5No1/HV5N1Brock.html by Sebastian Brock, I find that ms. Paris Syr. 346 contains Severus' ...
Hello Steven, This is really useful -- thank you! I didn't know that the Journal Asiatique was mostly online (well done, the French!) although sadly not the...
All, As Roger noticed in my response, much of the Journal Asiatique has been posted on the web by the BNF. This is an excellent resource with many Syriac...
... This is tremendously useful -- thank you. I have spent this afternoon searching for 'Scher' to find articles. What we have, in this bunch of articles, is...
Hello Roger, There is a very useful overview of Severus Sabukht’s work and references to the relevant manuscripts in Igantius Aphram I Barsoum’s The...
Hello Joel, That's really helpful -- I will get hold of Barsoum immediately. I've had an email (attached) which suggests that ms. paris syr. 346 contains...
Hello Roger, Nau, in the article I mentioned, is interested in astronomical data, and he quotes from that ms. a section of a letter written in AD 662 by...
Ute Possekel
upossekel@...
Jul 17, 2006 7:11 pm
1835
A kind gentleman wrote to me this week offering me an article about Severus Sebokht from ROC in PDF form. Unfortunately he supplied an invalid email address,...
A kind gentleman in India, Fr. Mathew Koshy Modisseril, has typed up for me the public domain Syriac text of Thomas of Edessa, On the nativity of the Lord...
Rodger: What I would be interested in seeing eventually is a complete copy of the Assyrian Aramaic Peshitta Text as it was originally translated for...
Were these printed? If so, do you have the bibliographic details? All the best, Roger Pearse ... complete copy of the Assyrian Aramaic Peshitta Text as it was...
What a valuable service. Thank you very much. A central web page for such texts would be most welcome. Are there public domain Syriac texts of the desert...
Glad to help, and I hope that people will send in texts that they have. I shall commission more, especially if I can find people willing to do the job at a...
Fellow list-members, Broadly speaking there is a 'consensus' view that the gospels post-date the life of Christ by at least 40 years, and survive today only in...
Hello Steven, I sympathise with your scepticism and with your position. There is no compelling reason why even our Greek Gospels should post-date the life of...
