The Two Syriac Versions of the Prayer of Manasseh / / Wido van Peursen, Ariel Gutman.

The authors present a detailed philological and linguistic comparison of two versions of The Prayer of Manasseh. Combing state-of-the-art computational tools together with traditional philology, the texts are compared at all linguistic levels, from their vocabulary up to their discursive structure,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (279 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • LIST OF GLOSSES
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER 1. MANASSEH'S PRAYER AND ITS PLACE IN THE SYRIAC TRADITION
  • CHAPTER 2. GRAMMATICAL COMPARISON
  • CHAPTER 3. LEXICAL ANALYSIS
  • CHAPTER 4. DISCOURSE ARRANGEMENT
  • CHAPTER 5. VARIANT READINGS
  • CHAPTER 6. CONCLUSIONS
  • APPENDIX A. TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF THE TWO VERSIONS
  • APPENDIX B. TRANSCRIPTION AND GLOSSING OF THE TWO VERSIONS
  • INDEX OF VERSES
  • INDEX OF AUTHORS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY