Syriac Perspectives on Late Antiquity

Variorum
Sebastian Brock
ISBN: 086078147X
price: $122.95   hardcover

Contents: Preface; Early Syrian Asceticism; Greek into Syriac and Syriac into Greek; Aspects of translation technique in Antiquity; Some aspects of Greek words in Syriac; From antagonism to assimilation: Syriac attitudes to Greek learning; Christians in the Sasanid Empire: a case of divided loyalties; Syriac sources for seventh-century history; Syriac views of emergent Islam; A martyr at the Sasanid court under Vahran II: Candida; A letter attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem on the rebuilding of the Temple under Julian; The Orthodox-Oriental Orthodox conversations of 532; An early Syriac Life of Maximus the Confessor; A Syriac fragment on the Sixth Council: John of Nhel: an episode in early seventh-century monastic history; Notes on some monasteries on Mount Izla; Addenda and corrigenda; Index.