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Analecta Gorgiana
Analecta Gorgiana is a collection of long essays and short monographs which are consistently cited by modern scholars but previously difficult to find because of their original appearance in obscure publications. Carefully selected by a team of scholars based on their relevance to modern scholarship, these essays can now be fully utilized by scholars and proudly owned by libraries.
Elements of Mental and Moral Science
Designed to Exhibit the Original Susceptibilities of the Mind, and the Rule by Which the Rectitude of Any of its States or Feelings Should be Judged
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 797
ISBN: 978-1-61143-175-9
The article reviews a set of texts on mental philosophy. It reviews the author’s assessments of various sources and the aspects of the mind. The reviewer takes issue with certain philosophers’ beliefs.
$37.00 (USD) $22.20 (USD)
Neusyrisches Lesebuch
Texte im Dialecte von Urmia gesammelt, übersetzt und erklärt
Edited and Translated by Adalbert Merx
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 633
ISBN: 978-1-61719-582-2
This collection of texts in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of Urmia, with parallel German translation and vocabulary notes, includes stories, material on baptism, a wedding, Araq and wine, history of the region, and several letters or parts thereof.
$47.00 (USD) $28.20 (USD)
Gli Statuti della Scuola di Nisibi
Edited with an Introduction by Ignazio Guidi
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 635
ISBN: 978-1-61719-584-6
The eminent Italian scholar of eastern Christianity Ignazio Guidi (1844-1935) here presents a critical edition of the Statutes of the School of Nisibis, prefaced by a historical and textual introduction.
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Das Gedicht Teqqaf l’Arestotalis
Edited and Translated by Salomon Samuel
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 636
ISBN: 978-1-61719-585-3
This work, the author’s dissertation, has for its subject a unique didactic Syriac poem (301 lines) on philosophy, particularly of the Aristotelian variety, and wisdom generally. After introducing the text, the author gives a critical edition with German translation.
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The School of Nisibis
Its Origin, Statutes, and Celebrated Personages
By Addai Scher
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 656
ISBN: 978-1-61719-605-8
This brief but important work provides readers with a concise overview of the School of Nisibis, the east Syriac study center, including the famous teachers and students associated with it and its functional arrangement.
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Hymne de S. Ephrem Docteur de l’Église sur la Nativité de n. Seigneur
Edited and Translated by Ignatius Ephrem II Rahmani
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 657
ISBN: 978-1-61719-606-5
This slim volume contains the Syriac text with facing French translation (modestly annotated) of one of Ephrem’s hymns on the Nativity.
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Untersuchungen über die Quellen, die Abfassungszeit und die dogmatische Stellung des Verfassers der
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 659
ISBN: 978-1-61719-608-9
This study of the mid-6th century Chronicle of Edessa explores its sources, date of composition, and doctrinal stance.
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Die Scholien des Theodor Bar Kônî zur Patriarchengeschichte (Genesis XII-L)
Edited with an Introduction by Martin Lewin
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 665
ISBN: 978-1-61719-614-0
This volume includes a critical edition, with notes, of part of the Scholia-Commentary of Church of the East author Theodore bar Koni (fl. end of the 8th cent.), namely the part on the patriarchal narratives in Genesis.
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St. Ephraemi Syri Theologia quantum ex Libris Poeticis Cognosci Potest Explicatur
Ephrem’s Theology as Found in his Poetry
By Albert Haase
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 584
ISBN: 978-1-61719-543-3
This study is set as a theological look at Ephrem the Syrian. After a general introduction, the author systematically examines a number of theological topics based on Ephrem’s poetry. The Syriac passages cited are also translated.
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De la métrique chez les Syriens
By J.P. Martin
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 686
ISBN: 978-1-61719-637-9
In this lengthy essay on the subject of Syriac meter, Martin begins by reviewing the previous scholarship on the subject and then edits the section on meter from Jacob bar Shakko’s Book of Dialogues, with annotated French translation.
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La lettera di Simeone vescovo di Bêth-Arsâm sopra I martiri omeriti
Edited and Translated by Ignazio Guidi
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 689
ISBN: 978-1-61719-665-2
Guidi, in this long article, presents an edition and thoroughly annotated Italian translation of the Syriac “Letter on the Himyarite Martyrs,” which deals with the persecution of Christians in Nagran, from author and bishop, Simeon of Beth Arsham.
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Notice sur les manuscrits syriaques conservés dans la bibliothèque du Patriarcat chaldéen de Mossoul
By Addai Scher
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 696
ISBN: 978-1-61719-672-0
In the present work, Scher covers the Syriac (and some Arabic) manuscripts then located at the Chaldean Patriarchal Library in Mosul, which possessed a broad and rich collection. An index of authors and anonymous works concludes the catalog.
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Chrestomathia Chaldaica, varios textos exhibens
Aramaic Chrestomathy
By J.J. Marcel
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 698
ISBN: 978-1-61719-674-4
In this early reading book for Aramaic (that is, not Syriac), J.J. Marcel provides a few texts from the Bible together with an Aramaic-Latin glossary.
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Studies in Manichaeism
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 903
ISBN: 978-1-61143-497-2
This work is a detailed study of Manichaeism from findings of a 1903 study in East Turkestan.
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Persian Period Jerusalem and Yehud
A Rejoinder
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 1078
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0125-8
The author responds to criticism against his prior publications, when his conclusions were based foremost on the relevant archaeological findings. It is a debate between methodologies used by archaeology and the assumptions of textual analysis within biblical scholarship.
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A Perfectly Broken Acrostic in Nahum 1?
By Thomas Renz
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 1088
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0135-7
Renz discusses the acrostic poetic form of Nahum 1. The alphabetic sequence is interrupted by YHWH’s actions, conveying that this poem is a communication about divine order and chaos. This sets the tone for the flood motif in Nahum 2.
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Syriac into Armenian
The Translations and their Translators
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 1091
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0139-5
This article describes the historical development of Armenian translations of Syriac literature from the 5th century, Intervening- and Clinician Periods. Significant works and figures are highlighted.
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The Contested History of a Book
The German Bible of the Later Middle Ages and Reformation in Legend, Ideology, and Scholarship
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 1079
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0126-5
This paper explores the common misconception that vernacular translations of the Bible were not available prior to Luther. In fact, Luther may have relied on these to accomplish his own work toward what became a more preferable translation.
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Priestly Power that Empowers
Michel Foucault, Middle-Tier Levites, and the Sociology of ‘Popular Religious Groups’ in Israel
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 1084
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0131-9
Christian analyzes priestly social dynamics in-depth as they develop through tribal history and specialization of tasks. He focuses on middle-tier Levites as their skills and specialized knowledge place them in upper classes but their work relegates them as intermediaries.
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The Syriac Presence in the Armenian Translation of the Bible, with Special Reference to the Book of
By Claude Cox
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 1093
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0141-8
Syriac and Armenian Christians interacted regionally and theologically. This paper investigates whether it is thus a viable proposition to deduce Syriac readings from Armenian biblical translations. Cox concludes on a case-basis because extensive use of a similar source text remains questionable.
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Der alte Anfang und die upsprünglich Form von Cyprians Schrift Ad Donatum
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 602
ISBN: 978-1-61719-433-7
This much-cited essay contains the third century Christian leader Cyprian's letter to his friend Donatus written shortly after his conversion.
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The Monks of Rabban Hormizd
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
ISBN: 978-1-61143-585-6
Arthur Vaschalde provides a brief survey and translation of a manuscript containing historical details about the Monastery of Rabban Hormizd in Iraq.
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The Temple of the Kings
At Abydos (Sety I.)
By Algernon Saint George Caulfeild; In Collaboration With H. Lawrence Christie; Contribution by W. M. Flinders Petrie
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 594
ISBN: 978-1-61719-486-3
This work consists of the first architectural description of the Temple of Seti I at Abydos, reporting the first full excavation of 1902.
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The Palestinian Version of the Holy Scriptures
Edited and Translated by George Henry Gwilliam; In Collaboration With Ernest Nathaniel Bennett
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 528
ISBN: 978-1-61719-186-2
This work consists of five leaves of the old Syriac version of the Bible, in the Palestinian dialect. Included are images of some of the leaves, Syriac text, English translation, notes, and a essay on the underlying Greek text.
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The Performance of Normativity
Mormons and the Construction of an American Masculinity
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 1069
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0116-6
This paper examines the construction of masculinity among male members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) and its underlying historical factors.
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