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CHAPTER 5 TO 8 (Kitab al-Lulu al-Manthur fi Tarikh al-Ulum wal-Adab...

SYRIAC CALLIGRAPHY /MORPHOLOGY AND GRAMMAR / GENERAL RULES OF THE LANGUAGE AND DICTIONARIES; RHETORIC AND POETRY / THEMES OF SYRIAC POETRY CHAPTER FIVE Since the art of calligraphy is obviously...

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CHAPTER 1 TO 4 (Kitab al-Lulu al-Manthur fi Tarikh al-Ulum wal-Adab...

CHAPTER ONE – CHAPTER FOUR THE SYRIAC LANGUAGE / THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SYRIAC LITERATURE /THE CENTERS OF LEARNING / SYRIAN LIBRARIES CHAPTER ONE The Aramaic (Syriac) language is one of the...

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Language and the Knowledge of God in Ephrem the Syrian Dr. David D. Bundy

Language and the Knowledge of God in Ephrem the Syrian Dr. David D. Bundy WHO WAS EPHREM – EPHREM CONTEST – THE ISSUE – KNOWLEDGE – LANGUAGE Ephrem’s influence in the Syriac speaking churches was...

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The Challenges that confronted the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch in the...

(1) The Syrian Orthodox historians have all agreed in their eulogistic tributes to our revered Patriarch Mar Michael the Great. They have appreciated his gifts, struggles, sacrifices and services....

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A Letter of Mara, Son of Serapion Tran. from Syriac

Mara, son of Serapion, to Serapion, my son: peace. When thy master and guardian wrote me a letter, and informed me that thou wast very diligent in study, though so young in years, I blessed God that...

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East Asian History Sourcebook East Asian History Sourcebook: Ch’ing-Tsing:...

composed by a priest of the Syriac Church, 781 A.D. [Horne Introduction]: This remarkable record of the fact that Christianity flourished in medieval China is a huge stone about ten feet high. Carven...

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Severus Sebokht, Description of the Astrolabe

This text was transcribed by Roger Pearse, Ipswich, UK Severus Sebokht, Description of the Astrolabe, in R.T.Gunther, Astrolabes of the World, Oxford (1932) •Introduction •Part 2 – Use of the...

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Severus Sebokht, on the constellations

This text was transcribed by Roger Pearse, Ipswich, UK Introduction by François Nau     •    Introduction     •    The sources used by Severus     •    Biographical details on Severus Sebokht given by...

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The Chronicle of Edessa

This text was transcribed by Roger Pearse, Ipswich, UK SOME of the early Christian writers refer in very eulogistic terms to the archives of Edessa. The archives were, of course, the public or royal...

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Syriac Language and Literature

Syriac is the important branch of the group of Semitic languages known as Aramaic. In the time of Alexander the Great, Aramaic was the official language of all the nations from Asia Minor to Persia ,...

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