The Sentences of the Syriac Menander: introduction, text and translation, and commentary
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English Syriac |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Piscataway, NJ
Gorgias Press
2012
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Gorgias studies in classical and late antiquity (7)
Year: 2012 |
| Series/Journal: | Gorgias studies in classical and late antiquity
7 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Menander 342 BC-291 BC, Sententiae
/ Syriac language
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| Further subjects: | B
Commentary
B Quotations, Greek Translations into Syriac History and criticism B Menander of Athens Translations into Syriac History and criticism B Menander of Athens Criticism and interpretation B Gnomic poetry, Greek Translations into Syriac History and criticism |
| Item Description: | "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."--Cover Notes Includes bibliographical references and index |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 255 p, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61143-488-0 |
