The Sentences of the Syriac Menander: Introduction, Text and Translation, and Commentary

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...

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Main Author: Monaco, David Gregory (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Piscataway, NJ Gorgias Press [2013]
Series:Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
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Summary: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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 10. Jan 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (268 pages)
ISBN:9781463234751
DOI:10.31826/9781463234751

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