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An 11th-century Syriac manuscript. In the English language, the term "Syriac" is used as a linguonym (language name) designating a specific variant of the Aramaic language in relation to its regional origin in northeastern parts of Ancient Syria, around Edessa, which lay outside of the provincial borders of Roman Syria.
Translations are from Old and Middle English, Old French, Old Norse, Latin, Arabic, Greek, Persian, Syriac, Ethiopic, Coptic, Armenian, and Hebrew, and most works cited are generally available in the University of Michigan's HathiTrust digital library [1] and OCLC's WorldCat. [2] Anonymous works are presented by topic.
Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic. Portions of the Old Testament were written in Aramaic and there are Aramaic phrases in the New Testament. Syriac translations of the New Testament were among the first and date from the 2nd century. The whole Bible was translated by the 5th century. Besides Syriac, there are Bible translations into other Aramaic ...
A translation of the Doctrine of Addai, now first edited in a complete form in the original Syriac, with an English translation and notes, by English orientalist George Phillips (1804–1892). [222] A partial translation was provided by English orientalist William Cureton (1808–1864) [223] in his Ancient Syriac Documents (1864). [224] Adelard ...
By Boethius. Printed in Latin along with an English translation by British academic Hugh Frasier Stewart (1863–1948) and Edward Kennard Rand (1871–1945). [387] In the same volume with the following. The consolation of philosophy (1918). [386] By Boethius. Printed in Latin along with the English translation of I. T. (1609), revised by H. F ...
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The term Old Syriac may refer to: Old Syriac language - an early stage of the Syriac language; Old Syriac alphabet - an early stage of the Syriac alphabet; Old Syriac Gospels - the Old Syriac version of the New Testament, that predates the standard Peshitta version, represented by two manuscripts: the Curetonian Gospels; the Sinaitic Palimpsest
"Classical Syriac language" is the term for the literary language as was developed by the 3rd century. The language of the first three centuries of the Christian era is also known as "Old Syriac" (but sometimes subsumed under "Classical Syriac"). The earliest Christian literature in Syriac was biblical translation, the Peshitta and the Diatessaron.