The Beginnings of the Graeco-Syro-Arabic Melkite Translation Movement in Antioch
The present article surveys the early stages of the Graeco-Syro-Arabic Melkite translation movement in Antioch, from the first known translation (the Graeco-Syriac version of the Life of St. Symeon the Stylite the Younger, BHG 1689) dating to 827/8 AD to the Antiochene translators Ibrāhīm the protos...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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[2020]
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Scrinium
Year: 2020, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 306-332 |
IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CF Christianity and Science KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages KBL Near East and North Africa |
Further subjects: | B
Black Mountain
B Syriac into Arabic B Greek into Syriac B Antioch B Translations B Greek into Arabic B Christian Arabic literature |
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Summary: | The present article surveys the early stages of the Graeco-Syro-Arabic Melkite translation movement in Antioch, from the first known translation (the Graeco-Syriac version of the Life of St. Symeon the Stylite the Younger, BHG 1689) dating to 827/8 AD to the Antiochene translators Ibrāhīm the protospatharios, Gregory of Dafnūnā, Chariton of Aršāyā, and Yūḥannā ʿAbd al-Masīḥ (the compiler of the Antiochene Menologion), all of them disciples of the martyred patriarch of Antioch Christopher (d.967). It provides new evidence on each of these translators. Significantly, it re-dates Yūḥannā ʿAbd al-Masīḥ to the early eleventh century. |
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ISSN: | 1817-7565 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Scrinium
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00160A06 |