Old-Syriac (Edessean) Inscriptions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old-Syriac (Edessean) Inscriptions write by H. J. W. Drijvers. This book was released on 2023-08-21. Old-Syriac (Edessean) Inscriptions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Old Syriac Inscriptions of Edessa and Osrhoene
The Old Syriac Inscriptions of Edessa and Osrhoene - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Old Syriac Inscriptions of Edessa and Osrhoene write by Han J.W. Drijvers. This book was released on 2016-11-14. The Old Syriac Inscriptions of Edessa and Osrhoene available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume contains all the known Old Syriac inscriptions from Edessa and the area around Osrhoene in Northern Mesopotamia from the first three centuries C.E., the number of which has substantially increased over the last decades. The texts are given in estrangelo script and are accompanied by an extensive philological and historical commentary. The originals are presented in photographs and line drawings. The volume also contains chapters on the script of these inscriptions, on the language and on the history and culture of Edessa. Two appendices offer the texts of three parchments written in Syriac and originating from the same area, and of known but still unpublished inscriptions. The book concludes with indices of words and proper names, which are complement to the Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions (Brill, 1995), and with a full bibliography.
Pre-Islamic Arabia
Pre-Islamic Arabia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pre-Islamic Arabia write by Valentina A. Grasso. This book was released on 2023-02-28. Pre-Islamic Arabia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book delves into the political and cultural developments of pre-Islamic Arabia, focusing on the religious attitudes of the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula and its northern extension into the Syrian desert. Between the third and the seventh century, Arabia was on the edge of three great empires (Iran, Rome and Aksūm) and at the centre of a lucrative network of trade routes. Valentina Grasso offers an interpretative framework which contextualizes the choice of Arabian elites to become Jewish sympathisers and/or convert to Christianity and Islam by probing the mobilization of faith in the shaping of Arabian identities. For the first time the Arabians of the period are granted autonomy from marginalizing (mostly Western) narratives framing them as 'barbarians' inhabiting the fringes of Rome and Iran and/or deterministic analyses in which they are depicted retrospectively as exemplified by the Muslims' definition of the period as Jāhilīyah, 'ignorance'.
The Syriac World
The Syriac World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Syriac World write by Daniel King. This book was released on 2018-12-12. The Syriac World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume surveys the 'Syriac world', the culture that grew up among the Syriac-speaking communities from the second century CE and which continues to exist and flourish today, both in its original homeland of Syria and Mesopotamia, and in the worldwide diaspora of Syriac-speaking communities. The five sections examine the religion; the material, visual, and literary cultures; the history and social structures of this diverse community; and Syriac interactions with their neighbours ancient and modern. There are also detailed appendices detailing the patriarchs of the different Syriac denominations, and another appendix listing useful online resources for students. The Syriac World offers the first complete survey of Syriac culture and fills a significant gap in modern scholarship. This volume will be an invaluable resource to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Syriac and Middle Eastern culture from antiquity to the modern era. Chapter 26 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Law and Religion between Petra and Edessa
Law and Religion between Petra and Edessa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law and Religion between Petra and Edessa write by John Healey. This book was released on 2023-05-31. Law and Religion between Petra and Edessa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The thousands of surviving inscriptions in Middle Aramaic (e.g., in the Nabataean, Syriac and Palmyrene dialects) are an underused resource in the study of the Near East in the Roman period, especially in the study of religion and law. Particularly important was the emergence during this period of new peoples with their cultural roots in Arabia, such as the Nabataeans. This volume collects together, under the interrelated themes of religion and law, twenty-three articles by John Healey, with sections on "Petra and Nabataean Aramaic", "Edessa and Early Syriac" and "Aramaic and Society in the Roman Near East". Individual papers discuss the continuation of "Ancient Near Eastern" culture, the Aramaic legal tradition as well as the development of both written and spoken forms of Syriac and Nabatean.
