Florilegia Syriaca.

• Superior document: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, volume 179
• Author: Fiori, Emiliano.
• TeilnehmendeR: Ebeid, Bishara.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 179
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (399 pages)

"From the 6th century onwards, Syriac patristic florilegia - collections of Greek patristic excerpts in Syriac translation - progressively became a prominent form through which Syriac and Arab Christians shaped their knowledge of theology. In these collections, early Greek Christian literature underwent a substantial process of selection and re-organization. The papers collected in this volume study Syriac florilegia in their own right, as cultural products possessing their own specific textuality, and outline a phenomenology of Syriac patristic florilegia by mapping their diffusion and relevance in time and space, from the 6th to the 17th century, from the Roman Empire to China"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

1. Syriac Florilegia and Patristic Christianity beyond East and West / Emiliano Fiori -- 2. An Unpublished Syriac Collection of the Old Testament Testimonia against the Jews from the Early Islamic Period / Sergey Minov -- 3. Tongues on a Golden Mouth: The Transition from Scholia to Florilegia as Evidenced in a Sixth-Century Syriac Chrysostom Manuscript / Yonatan Moss -- 4. Heresiology and Florilegia: The Reception of Epiphanius of Salamis' Panarion and Ephrem the Syrian's Prose Refutations and Hymns against Heresies / Flavia Ruani -- 5. A Geological Approach to Syriac Miaphysite Christology (Sixth-Ninth Centuries): Detours of a Patristic Florilegium from Antioch to Tagrit / Emiliano Fiori -- 6. Patristic Tradition, Trinitarian Doctrine, and Metaphysics in Abū Rāʼiṭah al-Takrītī's Polemics against the Melkites / Bishara Ebeid -- 7. Beyond Abbreviation: The Reception of Gregory of Nyssa, Severus of Antioch, and the Song of Songs in a Syriac Exegetical Collection (bl Add. 12168) / Marion Pragt -- 8. A Syriac Monk's Reading of Ephrem of Nisibis: A Perspective on Syriac Monastic Miscellanies / Grigory Kessel -- 9. Meandering through Monastic Miscellanies from Turfan to Iraq: First Remarks on the Comparison of Sogdian Manuscript E28 with Syriac Ascetic Collections Referable to It / Vittorio Berti -- 10. The Shining Lamp: An Arabic Florilegium of Conciliar Texts / Herman G.B. Teule -- Index.