Syriac Language, Texts and Literatures

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John 1:1a in Syriac

ܒܪܫܝܬ ܐܝܬܘܗܝ ܗܘܐ ܡܠܬܐ ܘܗܘ ܡܠܬܐ ܐܝܬܘܗܝ ܗܘܐ ܠܘܬ ܐܠܗܐ ܘܐܠܗܐ ܐܝܬܘܗܝ ܗܘܐ ܗܘ ܡܠܬܐ
 

The Syriac Script+ fonts:

Syriac is the Aramaic dialect of Edessa (= present-day Urfa,  SE. Turkey).

Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, Commission on Inter-church Relations and Education Development (C I R E D) : SYRIAC DOCUMENTS:

The Gospels and Acts of the Syriac - Aramaic Peshitta Bible:

 

 J. Payne Smith,

  • A Compendious Syriac Dictionary
     

Syriac Grammars

Robinson, Theodore Henry, J. F. Coakley & Jan Marian Maciejow

  • Robinson's Paradigms and Exercises in Syriac Grammar
     

Thackston, Wheeler M.

  • Introduction to Syriac: An Elementary Grammar With Readings from Syriac Literature
     

 

    Griffith, Sidney, H.

Palmer, Andrew (Ed.) + Sebastian Brock (Ed.  & Trans )+ Robert G. Hoyland (Ed.),

  • The Seventh Century in the West Syrian Chronicles : Including Two Seventh-Century Syriac Apocalyptic Texts. Pbk. 1993. ISBN 0853232385

 

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MISCELLANY

Judah Benzion ('Ben' Segal) ( b. Newcastle, June 21 1912--d.  ADD October 23 2003)

Professor of Semitic Languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), in the University of London, 1961 until 1979.

  • 1953  The Diacritical Point and the Accents in Syriac ADD
  • 1963  The Hebrew Passover from the Earliest Times to AD 70 ..
  • 1970  Edessa: The Blessed City. ADD
  • 1983  Aramaic texts from North Saqqara, with some Fragments in Phoenician.
  • 1993   A History of the Jews of Cochin
  •  2000 & Erica Hunter, Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum

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    Prof. Dr. Rev. Michel van Esbroeck SJ, (1934-2003)

     

  • Obituary: http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol7No1/HV7N1OBEsbroeck.html
  • Publications: http://people.ias.edu/~muraviev/van%20esbroeck.htm

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