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This volume presents a panorama of Syriac engagement with
Aristotelian philosophy primarily situated in the 6th to the 9th
centuries, but also ranging to the 13th. It offers a wide range of
articles, opening with surveys on the most important philosophical
writers of the period before providing detailed studies of two
Syriac prolegomena to Aristotle's Categories and examining the
works of Hunayn, the most famous Arabic translator of the 9th
century. Watt also examines the relationships between philosophy,
rhetoric and political thought in the period, and explores the
connection between earlier Syriac tradition and later Arabic
philosophy in the thought of the 13th century Syriac polymath Bar
Hebraeus. Collected together for the first time, these articles
present an engaging and thorough history of Aristotelian philosophy
during this period in the Near East, in Syriac and Arabic.
This book brings together sixteen studies by internationally
renowned scholars on the origins and early development of the Latin
and Syriac biblical and philosophical commentary traditions. It
casts light on the work of the founder of philosophical biblical
commentary, Origen of Alexandria, and traces the developments of
fourth- and fifth-century Latin commentary techniques in writers
such as Marius Victorinus, Jerome and Boethius. The focus then
moves east, to the beginnings of Syriac philosophical commentary
and its relationship to theology in the works of Sergius of
Reshaina, Probus and Paul the Persian, and the influence of this
continuing tradition in the East up to the Arabic writings of
al-Farabi. There are also chapters on the practice of teaching
Aristotelian and Platonic philosophy in fifth-century Alexandria,
on contemporaneous developments among Byzantine thinkers, and on
the connections in Latin and Syriac traditions between translation
(from Greek) and commentary. With its enormous breadth and the
groundbreaking originality of its contributions, this volume is an
indispensable resource not only for specialists, but also for all
students and scholars interested in late-antique intellectual
history, especially the practice of teaching and studying
philosophy, the philosophical exegesis of the Bible, and the role
of commentary in the post-Hellenistic world as far as the classical
renaissance in Islam.
This volume presents a panorama of Syriac engagement with
Aristotelian philosophy primarily situated in the 6th to the 9th
centuries, but also ranging to the 13th. It offers a wide range of
articles, opening with surveys on the most important philosophical
writers of the period before providing detailed studies of two
Syriac prolegomena to Aristotle's Categories and examining the
works of Hunayn, the most famous Arabic translator of the 9th
century. Watt also examines the relationships between philosophy,
rhetoric and political thought in the period, and explores the
connection between earlier Syriac tradition and later Arabic
philosophy in the thought of the 13th century Syriac polymath Bar
Hebraeus. Collected together for the first time, these articles
present an engaging and thorough history of Aristotelian philosophy
during this period in the Near East, in Syriac and Arabic.
This book brings together sixteen studies by internationally
renowned scholars on the origins and early development of the Latin
and Syriac biblical and philosophical commentary traditions. It
casts light on the work of the founder of philosophical biblical
commentary, Origen of Alexandria, and traces the developments of
fourth- and fifth-century Latin commentary techniques in writers
such as Marius Victorinus, Jerome and Boethius. The focus then
moves east, to the beginnings of Syriac philosophical commentary
and its relationship to theology in the works of Sergius of
Reshaina, Probus and Paul the Persian, and the influence of this
continuing tradition in the East up to the Arabic writings of
al-Farabi. There are also chapters on the practice of teaching
Aristotelian and Platonic philosophy in fifth-century Alexandria,
on contemporaneous developments among Byzantine thinkers, and on
the connections in Latin and Syriac traditions between translation
(from Greek) and commentary. With its enormous breadth and the
groundbreaking originality of its contributions, this volume is an
indispensable resource not only for specialists, but also for all
students and scholars interested in late-antique intellectual
history, especially the practice of teaching and studying
philosophy, the philosophical exegesis of the Bible, and the role
of commentary in the post-Hellenistic world as far as the classical
renaissance in Islam.
This is a Syriac text written, in all probability, by an inhabitant
of Edessa almost immediately after the conclusion of the war
between Rome and Persia in 502-506 AD. Although that conflict is
treated in other ancient texts, none of them can match "Joshua" in
his wealth of detail, his familiarity with the region where the
hostilities occurred, and his proximity in time to the events. The
Chronicle also vividly describes the famine and plague that swept
through Edessa in the years immediately before the war. The work is
a document of great importance for both the social and military
history of late antiquity, remarkable for the information it
provides on Roman and Persian empires alike.
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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