Pulling a Yoke through the White Field: East Syriac Poetic Paraphrases of Scribal Rhetoric
As shown in recent studies, East Syriac colophons were rather standardised, at least in the Ottoman period, and they incorporated into the main colophon body not only prose passages, but also poetic ones. The current article discusses one such passage that occurs in both prose and poetic forms in v...
| Published in: | Aramaic studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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| In: |
Aramaic studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Syriac language
/ Colophon
/ History 1299-1922
/ Trope
/ Poetics
/ Scribe
/ Prose
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism HA Bible |
| Further subjects: | B
poetic anthologies
B manuscript colophons B Scribes B verse rendering B ʿAbdīšōʿ of Gāzartā B Poetry B East Syriac tradition B ʿAṭāyā of Alqosh |
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| Summary: | As shown in recent studies, East Syriac colophons were rather standardised, at least in the Ottoman period, and they incorporated into the main colophon body not only prose passages, but also poetic ones. The current article discusses one such passage that occurs in both prose and poetic forms in various manuscripts, namely the topos of ‘the five twins that pulled a yoke from the forest through the white field’. It provides a fascinating example of the trope’s transmission over the centuries, as well as the poetic creativity of East Syriac scribes as manifested in the Ottoman period. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5227 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Aramaic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455227-bja10024 |