Word: syriac
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Aramaic literature is almost wholly, either Jewish or Christian. The Jewish is represented by some parts of the books of Ezra and Daniel. The Christian form is commonly called Syriac. No pre-Christian literature exists. Such a literature probably arose with the pagan culture; but with the translation of the Bible into the Aramaic dialect of Odyessa, it disappeared...
From the Indian originals the stories came down through the Sanskrit Panchatantra, the Tibetan, the Lost Pehlevi, 550 A. D., to the Arabic and Old Syriac. From the Arabic there were many effluxes, the Later Syriac, and through that the English of Keith-Falconer; the Greek of Symeon Seth and from that the Latin of Possinus; the Hebrew of Rabbi Joel and from that the "Directorium," by John of Capua, from which comes the "Buch der byspel der alten Wysen," and the "Moral Philosophia" by Doni, which was translated into English by Sir Thomas North in 1570. from the Arabic...
Professor J. Rendel Harris lectured in Divinity Chapel last night on "The New Syriac Gospels from Mt. Sinai." He spoke of the results of his explorations in Syria and demonstrated some of the advantages possessed by the Syriac text over the Western version...
Lecture. The New Syriac Gospels from Mount Sinai. Professor J. Rendel Harris. Divinity Chapel...
...Syriac Gospels from Mount Sinai...