The Peshitta: Its Use in Literature and Liturgy
Papers Read at the Third Peshitta Symposium
Published on 6. April 2007
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Leather / fine binding
416 pages
978-90-04-15658-6 (ISBN)
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For the first time, this volume brings together biblical scholars and specialists in Syriac liturgy and patristic literature. It contains introductory essays on the Syriac versions in the liturgy, the Syriac Old Testament commentary tradition, and the challenges posed to exegetes by the different Syriac versions of the New Testament, written by the leading scholars in the field. Twenty-one further contributions discuss the patristic and liturgical evidence for the development of the text of the Peshitta and other Syriac versions, as well as the reception and use of those versions in the exegesis and liturgy of the Syriac Churches. These studies are fully updated versions of the papers read at the Third Peshitta Symposium, held in Leiden, 12-15 August 2001.
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"... the proceedings of the Third Peshitta Symposium in 2001 (first two in 1985 and 1993) present a major contribution to the study of Syriac scriptures. [...] While there was certainly no attempt to be all-inclusive in this volume, the editor and participants come surprisingly close to providing a virtual manual of the reception history of the Peshitta." - Robert A. Kitchen, Knox-Metropolitan United Church Regina, Saskatchewan, CanadaMore details
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English
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Leiden
Netherlands
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 246 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
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930 gr
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978-90-04-15658-6 (9789004156586)
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Bas ter Haar Romeny, Ph.D. (1997), Leiden University, is Professor of Old Testament and Eastern Christianity at Leiden University. He has published extensively on the biblical text and the history of its interpretation, including A Syrian in Greek Dress (Peeters, 1997).
Content
KEYNOTE LECTURES
The Use of the Syriac Versions in the Liturgy
Sebastian P. Brock
Between the School and the Monk's Cell: The Syriac Old Testament Commentary Tradition
Lucas Van Rompay
Problems in the Syriac New Testament and How Syrian Exegetes Solved Them
William L. Petersen
PAPERS
The Biblical Text in the Disputation of Sergius the Stylite against a Jew
A. Peter Hayman
Reworking the Biblical Text in the Dramatic Dialogue Poems on the Old Testament Patriarch Joseph
Kristian Heal
The Old Testament in the New: The Syriac Versions of the New Testament as a Witness to the Text of the Old Testament Peshitta
Jan Joosten
The 'Syriac Masora' and the New Testament Peshitta
Andreas Juckel
The Four Kingdoms in Peshitta Daniel 7 in the Light of the Early History of Interpretation
Arie van der Kooij
Aphrahat's Use of his Old Testament
Marinus D. Koster
'There is No Need of Turtle-Doves or Young Pigeons . . .' (Jacob of Sarug). Quotations and Non-Quotations of Leviticus in Selected Syriac Writers
David J. Lane
Ephrem, his School, and the Yawnaya: Some Remarks on the Early Syriac Versions of the New Testament
Christian Lange
Isho'dad's Knowledge of Hebrew as Evidenced from his Treatment of Peshitta Ezekiel
Jerome A. Lund
The Text of the New Testament in the Acts of Judas Thomas
Craig E. Morrison, O.Carm.
Interpretation in the Greek Antiochenes and the Syriac Fathers
Shinichi Muto
The Book of Proverbs in Aphrahat's Demonstrations
Robert J. Owens
Sirach Quotations in the Discourses of Philoxenus of Mabbug: Text and Context
Wido van Peursen
The Reception of Peshitta Chronicles: Some Elements for Investigation
David Phillips
The Greek vs. the Peshitta in a West Syrian Exegetical Collection (BL Add. 12168)
Bas ter Haar Romeny
The Peshitta and Biblical Quotations in the Longer Syriac Version of the Commentary of Athanasius on the Psalms (BL Add. 14568), with special attention to Psalm 23 (24) and 102 (103)
Harry F. van Rooy
The Reception of the Peshitta Psalter in Bar Salibi's Commentary on the Psalms
Stephen D. Ryan, O.P.
Obscure Words in the Peshitta of Samuel, according to Theodore bar Koni
Alison Salvesen
New Testament Quotations in the Breviary of the Syrian Orthodox Church. Example: The Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38)
Aho Shemunkasho
The Psalm Headings in the West Syrian Tradition
David G.K. Taylor
Peshitta New Testament Quotations in the West Syrian Anaphoras: Some General Observations
Baby Varghese
The Use of the Syriac Versions in the Liturgy
Sebastian P. Brock
Between the School and the Monk's Cell: The Syriac Old Testament Commentary Tradition
Lucas Van Rompay
Problems in the Syriac New Testament and How Syrian Exegetes Solved Them
William L. Petersen
PAPERS
The Biblical Text in the Disputation of Sergius the Stylite against a Jew
A. Peter Hayman
Reworking the Biblical Text in the Dramatic Dialogue Poems on the Old Testament Patriarch Joseph
Kristian Heal
The Old Testament in the New: The Syriac Versions of the New Testament as a Witness to the Text of the Old Testament Peshitta
Jan Joosten
The 'Syriac Masora' and the New Testament Peshitta
Andreas Juckel
The Four Kingdoms in Peshitta Daniel 7 in the Light of the Early History of Interpretation
Arie van der Kooij
Aphrahat's Use of his Old Testament
Marinus D. Koster
'There is No Need of Turtle-Doves or Young Pigeons . . .' (Jacob of Sarug). Quotations and Non-Quotations of Leviticus in Selected Syriac Writers
David J. Lane
Ephrem, his School, and the Yawnaya: Some Remarks on the Early Syriac Versions of the New Testament
Christian Lange
Isho'dad's Knowledge of Hebrew as Evidenced from his Treatment of Peshitta Ezekiel
Jerome A. Lund
The Text of the New Testament in the Acts of Judas Thomas
Craig E. Morrison, O.Carm.
Interpretation in the Greek Antiochenes and the Syriac Fathers
Shinichi Muto
The Book of Proverbs in Aphrahat's Demonstrations
Robert J. Owens
Sirach Quotations in the Discourses of Philoxenus of Mabbug: Text and Context
Wido van Peursen
The Reception of Peshitta Chronicles: Some Elements for Investigation
David Phillips
The Greek vs. the Peshitta in a West Syrian Exegetical Collection (BL Add. 12168)
Bas ter Haar Romeny
The Peshitta and Biblical Quotations in the Longer Syriac Version of the Commentary of Athanasius on the Psalms (BL Add. 14568), with special attention to Psalm 23 (24) and 102 (103)
Harry F. van Rooy
The Reception of the Peshitta Psalter in Bar Salibi's Commentary on the Psalms
Stephen D. Ryan, O.P.
Obscure Words in the Peshitta of Samuel, according to Theodore bar Koni
Alison Salvesen
New Testament Quotations in the Breviary of the Syrian Orthodox Church. Example: The Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38)
Aho Shemunkasho
The Psalm Headings in the West Syrian Tradition
David G.K. Taylor
Peshitta New Testament Quotations in the West Syrian Anaphoras: Some General Observations
Baby Varghese