A History of the Study of Grammar among the Syrians : : An English translation of Historia artis grammaticae apud Syros / / Adalbert Merx, Daniel King.

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• VerfasserIn: Merx, Adalbert,; King, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on Linguistics and Ancient Languages ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (504 p.)

This book is a translation of a monograph about the Syriac grammatical tradition, the Historia artis grammaticae apud Syros, by the 19th-century German theologian and linguist, Adalbert Merx. The book traces the ways in which Syriac scholars in Late Antiquity learned to analyse their own language an...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION
• I. Adalbert Merx, his Life and Works
• II. Select Bibliography of Merx’s writings
• III. The Historia artis grammaticae in subsequent research
• IV. Texts of the Syriac Grammatical Tradition
• V. Bibliography of subsequent research
• VI. Summary of the Historia artis grammaticae
• VII. Abbreviations used in the footnotes and endnotes
• VIII. Note on translating the Historia artis grammaticae
• PREFACE
• 1. PROLEGOMENA
• 2. TRANSLATION OF AN ANCIENT SYRIAC GRAMMAR (DIONYSIUS THRAX)
• 3. ORTHOEPY, OR ACCURATE RECITATION
• 4. THE LIFE AND WORK OF JACOB OF EDESSA
• 5. THE SYRIAC GRAMMAR OF JACOB OF EDESSA
• 6. JACOB’S IMPROVEMENTS TO THE SYRIAC ACCENTS AND THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GREEK, SYRIAC, AND HEBREW PUNCTUATION
• 7. THE EAST SYRIAN GRAMMARIANS ʿENANIŠOʿ AND ḤUNAIN
• 8. ELIAS OF NISIBIS, JOSEPH BAR MALKON, AND THE MASORETIC MANUSCRIPTS
• 9. ELIAS OF ṬIRHAN AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ARABISING SCHOOL
• 10. JOHN BAR ZUʿBI
• 11. JACOB OF TAGRIT, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS SEVERUS BAR ŠAKKO
• 12. THE GRAMMAR OF BARHEBRAEUS
• CONCLUSION
• APPENDED TEXTS—NOTES TO THE NEW EDITION
• SYRIAC TEXTS
• INDICES