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Introduction to Syriac (Paperback)
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Language Reference. Middle-Eastern Studies. Syriac is the Aramaic
dialect of Edessa, an important center of early Christianity in
Mesopotamia. Today it is the classical tongue of the Nestorians and
Chaldeans of Iran and Iraq and the liturgical language of the
Jacobites of Eastern Anatolia and the Maronites of Greater Syria.
Syriac literature flourished from the third century on and boasts
of writers like Ephraem Syrus, Aphraates, Jacob of Sarug, John of
Ephesus, Jacob of Edessa, and Barhebraeus. In this text the
language is presented both in Syriac script, as it will always be
seen, and in transcription, which is given so that the
pronunciation of individual words and the structure of the language
as a whole may be represented as clearly as possible. The majority
of the sentences in the exercises-and all of the readings in the
later lessons-are taken directly from the Peshitta, the standard
Syriac translation of the Bible. For many of those whose interest
in Syriac stems from Biblical studies or from the history of
eastern Christianity, Syriac may be their first Semitic language.
Every effort has been made in the presentation of the grammar to
keep the Semitic structure of the language in the forefront and as
clear as possible for those who have no previous experience with
languages of that family. Wheeler M. Thackston is Professor of
Persian and other Near East Languages at Harvard University, where
he has taught Persian and Arabic for over twenty years.
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