The Syriac Legal Documents of the 3rd Century CE

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73065-6
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Supplement to Aramaic Studies

This book provides a re-edition and translation of the Syriac legal parchments of the mid 3rd century CE from Upper Mesopotamia, along with extensive commentary. These documents constitute our earliest significant evidence of the Syriac language and script, since only short epigraphs on stone and in mosaics survive otherwise. The texts are reproduced in Syriac script and in transliteration, while plates of the documents and script charts are also included, along with chapters devoted to script and language (in the context of the development of the later Classical Syriac forms) and to law (in the context of the adaptation of Aramaic law to Romanization).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Healey, John Francis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altes Ägypten & Ägyptische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Östliche & Orientalische Orthodoxe Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 The Debt-Transfer of 240?CE (P. Euphr. 18)

2 The Lease of 242?CE (P. Euphr. 19)

3 The Slave-Sale of 243?CE (P. Dura 28) 3.1 Excursus: P. Dura 152

4 Aramaic/Syriac in Greek Documents from the P. Euphr. and P. Dura Archives 4.1 P. Euphr. 1 4.2 P. Euphr. 3 and 4 4.3 P. Euphr. 6 and 7 4.4 P. Euphr. 9 4.5 P. Euphr. 10 4.6 P. Euphr. 12 4.7 P. Dura 27

5 The Scripts of the Documents 5.1 Excursus: Numerical Signs

6 The Aramaic/Syriac of the Documents

7 The Legal Language of the Documents

Concluding Remarks

The Texts in Syriac Script

Script Charts (Figures 1–40)

Plates

Bibliography

Index of Words

Index of Personal Names

Über Autor(innen)

John F. Healey, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester, specialises on Middle Aramaic epigraphy (Nabataean, Palmyrene, Syriac). His publications include, with the late Professor Han Drijvers as co-author, The Old Syriac Inscriptions of Edessa and Osrhoene (Brill, 1999).