Florilegia Syriaca: Mapping a Knowledge-Organizing Practice in the Syriac World

• Tác giả: Bishara Ebeid, Emiliano Fiori
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-9004527546
• ISBN-13: 978-9004527553
• Thông tin xuất bản: Brill 2023
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 373760
• Chủ đề: 1. knowledge transfer; 2. patristic anthologies; 3. patristic florilegia; 4. Syriac Christianity; 5. Christianity

Tóm tắt

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.