Word: syriac
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...Semitic Museum has recently acquired a collection of about 125 Syriac manuscripts. Although some are modern copies on paper, others are old manuscripts on parchment and vellum. These manuscripts go back to the twelfth century and even to the Bible. The collection was made by Professor J. Rendel Harris of England, one of the foremost scholars in Syriac studies...
Some time ago the Museum acquired the Syriac manuscripts from the library of the late Professor Isaac Hall of New York. Professor Hall was probably the best-known American scholar in Syriac...
...William and Mary College in Virginia, where the original chapter of the society had just been established. On his return to the north he brought charters for chapters to be established at Harvard and Yale. Among the papers are Parmele's will, notes on Chaldee grammar, and a Syriac oration delivered at a Harvard exhibition...
...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...