A History of the Study of Grammar among the Syrians

By Adalbert Merx; Translated by Daniel King

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An English translation of a Latin work on the Syriac grammatical tradition ('Historia artis grammaticae apud Syros') by the 19th-century German theologian and linguist, Adalbert Merx.

Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC

SKU (ISBN): 978-1-4632-4197-1

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Publication Status: Forthcoming

Series: Perspectives on Linguistics and Ancient Languages 13

Publication Date: Mar 14,2023

Interior Color: Black with Color Inserts

Trim Size: 7 x 10

Page Count: 504

Language: English

ISBN: 978-1-4632-4197-1

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An English translation of a Latin work on the Syriac grammatical tradition ('Historia artis grammaticae apud Syros') by the 19th-century German theologian and linguist, Adalbert Merx.

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An English translation of a Latin work on the Syriac grammatical tradition ('Historia artis grammaticae apud Syros') by the 19th-century German theologian and linguist, Adalbert Merx.

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	Contributor	Biography
	Adalbert Merx
	Daniel King	Daniel King (Lecturer in Syriac Studies and Semitic Languages, & Translation Advisor SIL International, Dept: Religious Studies, Cardiff University) studied classical languages at Cambridge before moving into the fields of Syriac studies and theology. He specializes in the period of Greek-Syriac translations in late antiquity, in both the theological and philosophical fields. He has published on the Syriac reception of Cyril of Alexandria, Aristotle, and John Philoponus, amongst others, and his recent works include The Earliest Syriac version of Aristotle’s Categories. Text and Commentary (Leiden, 2010) and The Syriac Versions of the Writings of Cyril of Alexandria. A Study in Translation Technique (Leiden, 2008).

EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION (1)
I. Adalbert Merx, his Life and Works (1)
II. Select Bibliography of Merx’s writings (2)
III. The Historia artis grammaticae in subsequent research (5)
IV. Texts of the Syriac Grammatical Tradition (18)
V. Bibliography of subsequent research (30)
VI. Summary of the Historia artis grammaticae (36)
VII. Abbreviations used in the footnotes and endnotes (43)
VIII. Note on translating the Historia artis grammaticae (47)
PREFACE (49)
1. PROLEGOMENA (51)
2. TRANSLATION OF AN ANCIENT SYRIAC GRAMMAR (DIONYSIUS THRAX) (64)
3. ORTHOEPY, OR ACCURATE RECITATION (89)
4. THE LIFE AND WORK OF JACOB OF EDESSA (99)
5. THE SYRIAC GRAMMAR OF JACOB OF EDESSA (122)
6. JACOB’S IMPROVEMENTS TO THE SYRIAC ACCENTS AND THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GREEK, SYRIAC, AND HEBREW PUNCTUATION (142)
7. THE EAST SYRIAN GRAMMARIANS ʿENANIŠOʿ AND ḤUNAIN (193)
8. ELIAS OF NISIBIS, JOSEPH BAR MALKON, AND THE MASORETIC MANUSCRIPTS (204)
9. ELIAS OF ṬIRHAN AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ARABISING SCHOOL (233)
10. JOHN BAR ZUʿBI (261)
Appendix 1. Three Treatises on East Syriac Accentuation (281)
Appendix 2. Observations from the Reuchlian manuscript on Aramaic and Hebrew orthoepy (329)
11. JACOB OF TAGRIT, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS SEVERUS BAR ŠAKKO (340)
12. THE GRAMMAR OF BARHEBRAEUS (350)
CONCLUSION (388)
APPENDED TEXTS—NOTES TO THE NEW EDITION (398)
SYRIAC TEXTS
I. Jacob Bar Šakko, Dialogue on Grammar (400)
II. Jacob Bar Šakko, Harmony in Arrangement (441)
III. Dionyius Thrax, Technē Grammatikē (451)
IV. Jacob of Edessa, Grammar (463)
INDICES (483)