`Enbe men Karmo Suryoyo (Bunches of Grapes from the Syriac Vineyard): A Syriac Chrestomathy / / Martin Zammit.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Zammit, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: Multiple
• Series: Gorgias Handbooks
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

`Enbe men Karmo Suryoyo is a chrestomathy intended primarily for students who have covered the essentials of Syriac morphology and syntax, but it should also interest anyone who enjoys Syriac literature in general. The twenty-six selections consist of examples of Syriac prose and poetry from the second until the thirteenth centuries AD. The readings reflect a wide and varied range of subject matter. Inevitably, selections of a religious nature predominate, but historical, ethnographic, chemical, astronomical, and linguistic excerpts produced by famous Syriac authors, as well as less familiar ones, have been included. A Syriac-English glossary and an index of grammatical points are included.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Texts -- 1. The Story of the Aramaean Sage Aḥiqar -- 2. Bardaiṣān (154 – 222) -- 3. Aphrahaṭ (c. 260 – 270 AD) -- 4. St. Ephrem (c. 306 – 373) -- 5. Extract from The Will of St. Ephrem -- 6. The Peshitta (Mappaqtā Pshīṭtā) -- 7. Anonymous 5th Century Prose: Malpānūtā d'Adday shlīḥā -- 8. Isaac the Great of Edessa -- 9. Narsai – ‘The Harp of the Spirit’ (ca. 399-ca. 502) -- 10. Soghītā Attributed to Narsai -- 11. From the Maronite Bēt Gazō -- 12. Anonymous: The Chronicle of Edessa (ca. 540) -- 13. John of Ephesus (ca. 507- ca. 588) -- 14. Philoxenus of Mabbūg (Aksnāyā, ca. 440-523) -- 15. A Christian Legend about Alexander the Great -- 16. ‛Anān Ishō‛ (7th c.) -- 17. Bishop George of the Arab Tribes of Mesopotamia (Born ca. 640 - died 724) -- 18. Theodore Bar Kōnī (Late 8th c.) -- 19. Job of Edessa (Born ca. 760 and flourished 817-832) -- 20. John of Dara (Flourished during the first half of the 9th c.) -- 21. Elias of Anbār (Flourished first half of the 10th c.) -- 22. Elias of Nisibis (Sōbā) (Died after 1049) -- 23. Elias bar Shīnāyā, Bishop of Nisibis (975 - 1046) -- 24. The Baḥīra Account -- 25. ‛Abdīshō‛ bar Brīkā (Died 1318) -- 26. Gregorius Abu l-Faraj Bar Hebraeus (Grīgōr bar ‛Ebrōyō 1225/6 - 1286) -- SYRIAC – ENGLISH GLOSSARY -- ENGLISH – SYRIAC GLOSSARY -- INDEX OF GRAMMATICAL POINTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY