The Sentences of the Syriac Menander: Introduction, Text and Translation, and Commentary

David Monaco

ISBN 10: 1611434882 / ISBN 13: 9781611434880

Editore: Gorgias Press, 2013

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• Titolo: The Sentences of the Syriac Menander: Introduction, Text and Translation, and Commentary
• Editore: Gorgias Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1611434882
• ISBN 13: 9781611434880
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Condizione: New
• Peso: 598 grammi

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The Sentences of the Syriac Menander appears in two Syriac manuscripts in the British Library, a full version in one codex, and a far shorter version, only a small fraction thereof, in another. This book presents a commentary on the text in its complete version focusing on parallels from both Jewish tradition and the Greco-Roman world, showing that the text is not, as it claims, the work of the Greek author Menander, but rather a work of Jewish Wisdom Literature composed in Syriac, possibly in the ancient city of Edessa itself, and preserved within Christian monastic circles.