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Rhetoric and Philosophy from Greek into Syriac (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Rhetoric and Philosophy from Greek into Syriac (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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Shortly after 500 CE, the Syriac-speaking priest and physician
Sergius of Resh'aina, who had studied in Alexandria, wrote the
first known exposition of Aristotle in a Semitic language. About
four centuries later, Abu Bishr Matta, an alumnus of the monastic
school of Dayr Qunna in Iraq, completed in Baghdad the Arabic
version of the Aristotelian Organon with translations from the
Syriac, and in a famous disputation argued the case for Greek logic
as a theory of knowledge against rival claims of Arabic
grammarians. The articles collected in this volume are concerned
with the transmission and development of the Greek achievement
among Syriac scholars of the Fertile Crescent during these four
centuries, particularly in the fields of rhetoric and philosophy.
Some range broadly over general areas, such as the Syriac
appropriation of Greek liberal education or the educational
curriculum in Syriac monastic schools, while others focus on themes
of particular interest, including the influence of Aristotle's
Rhetoric or the concept of the philosopher-king. Cumulatively they
show how many aspects of Greek culture were received and elaborated
in Syriac, and contribute to understanding the ways in which that
culture exercised a powerful influence on the medieval Near East
and the burgeoning Islamic civilisation.
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