E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten
Monaco The Sentences of the Syriac Menander
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4632-3475-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Introduction, Text and Translation, and Commentary
E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten
Reihe: Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
ISBN: 978-1-4632-3475-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
The Sentences of the Syriac Menander appears in two Syriac manuscripts in the British Library, a full version in one codex, and a far shorter version, only a small fraction thereof, in another. This book presents a commentary on the text in its complete version focusing on parallels from both Jewish tradition and the Greco-Roman world, showing that the text is not, as it claims, the work of the Greek author Menander, but rather a work of Jewish Wisdom Literature composed in Syriac, possibly in the ancient city of Edessa itself, and preserved within Christian monastic circles.
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- Table of Contents (page 5)
- Preface (page 7)
- Acknowledgments (page 9)
- Abbreviations (page 11)
- Introduction (page 13)
- History of Scholarship on the Sentences of the Syriac Menander (page 15)
- The History of the Document and its Modern Acquisition (page 24)
- Dating the Sentences of the Syriac Menander (page 31)
- The Provenance of the Sentences of the Syriac Menander (page 38)
- The Language of the Sentence of the Syriac Menander (page 47)
- The Organization of the Sentences of the Syriac Menander (page 54)
- The Genre of the Sentences of the Syriac Menander (page 55)
- The Attribution of the Text to Menander (page 59)
- The Sentences of the Syriac Menander - A Jewish Pseudepigraphon? (page 61)
- Parallels with Jewish Apocryphal Books and Parallels with Jewish Pseudepigraphical Books (page 68)
- Concluding Remarks (page 69)
- Text and Translation (page 71)
- Text (page 71)
- Translatoin (page 88)
- Commentary (page 105)
- Conclusion (page 217)
- Bibliography (page 233)
- Index (page 257)