Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: The Wisdom of the PearlersAuthor: Colless, Brain E. (TRN)Publisher: Cistercian PubnsPublication Date: 2008/04/30Number of Pages: 240Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: 2007047657

Provides basic guidance to the important areas of Syriac studies. This work indicates how Syriac is still very much alive in the twenty-first century. It covers topics such as: Grammars, Dictionaries, the 'Bible' in Syriac, Histories of Syriac Literature, bibliographical aids and relevant series, periodicals, and encyclopedias.

Product Description: A new edition of the study of Syriac Christianity up to the early fifth century CE: its beliefs and worship; its life and art. In this classic work, Robert Murray offers the fullest and most vivid picture yet available of the development and characte

Product Description: This volume is the first full-length study of penthos (tears of contrition) since Hausherr's in 1944. It traces its exposition in the early eastern Christian tradition, through detailed analysis of Greek and Syriac texts by Klimakos, Ephrem, Isaac and Symeon the New Theologian...read more

Product Description: The main concern of these articles is the interaction of Syriac with Greek culture in Late Antiquity. The book includes an examination of the process of translation from Greek into Syriac, studies of a number of unusual Greek texts in Syriac, and inter-church relations in the 5th-7th centuries...read more