Word: syriac
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scholar of distinction himself, and also the owner of valuable Syriac manuscripts, the Archbishop is familiar with the principal libraries of Europe...
...Archbishop of Syria, S. A. Barasaum, visited the Widener Library and the Semitic Museum yesterday on a tour of the University. His Eminence was especially interested in the collection of Oriental literature, which he saw in the Library, and the Rendell Harris collection of Arabic and Syriac manuscripts...
...John Rylands Library in Manchester, Eng. Dr. Harris is one of the greatest living authorities on biblical history and texts. At one time he was a professor at Johns Hopkins University. Most of his life he has spent in the East searching for manuscripts. Thus in a Syriac document of the Eighth Century, just deciphered, he has found this reference to Christ's stature: "Thy stature, O Christ, was smaller than that of the children of Jacob, who sinned against Thy Father who elected Thee, and who kindled the wrath of the Eternal Son who dwelt in Thee...
...originals comprise several hundred manuscripts (Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac); several thousand photographs and negatives; some two thousand jantern slides; a few bas-reliefs; and about two thousand clay books, seals, and statuettes of Babylonian origin; several thousand specimens of ancient pottery and coins from Palestine; and hundreds of specimens of the geology, fauna, flora, costumes, jewelry, and utensils of that country...
...used by the women of today in Palestine; agricultural implements, as the one-handled plow, which no man could guide while looking backwards, or the plowman's goad against which the prodded animal kicks in vain; skin and parchment scrolls of portions of the Hebrew Scriptures; Syriac manuscripts of the New Testament, many century; old; part of the Epistle to the Romans written on papyrus; in the fourth century; and so forth...