To Train His Soul in Books

To Train His Soul in Books
Author: Robin Darling Young
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2011-08-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0813217326

To Train His Soul in Books explores numerous aspects of this rich religious culture, extending previous lines of scholarly investigation and demonstrating the activity of Syriac-speaking scribes and translators busy assembling books for the training of biblical interpreters, ascetics, and learned clergy.

The Syriac Dot

The Syriac Dot
Author: George Anton Kiraz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2019
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781463241001

"The dot is used for everything in Syriac from tense to gender, number, and pronunciation, and unsurprisingly represents one of the biggest obstacles to learning the language. Using inscriptions, early grammars, and experiments with modern scribes, Dr. Kiraz peels back the evolution of the dot layer by layer to explain each of its uses in detail and to show how it adopted the wide range of uses it has today"--

A Short History of Syriac Literature

A Short History of Syriac Literature
Author: William Wright
Publisher: Andesite Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2017-08-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781376340174

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A Short History of Syriac Literature (Classic Reprint)

A Short History of Syriac Literature (Classic Reprint)
Author: William Wright
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2017-09-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781527965317

Excerpt from A Short History of Syriac Literature The canonical books of the New Testament are the four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles (to which are annexed the three catholic epistles, viz., James, 1 Peter, and 1 John), and the fourteen epistles of St Paul. The shorter apostolic epistles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.