DescriptionThe massive Syriac-Syriac/Arabic lexicon—actually more an encyclopedia than a mere lexicon—of Bar Bahlul (10th century) is one of two commonly cited Syriac dictionaries from the medieval period,...
DescriptionCiakciak’s dictionary is one of the standard resources for the study of classical Armenian. After the Armenian headword, Armenian synonyms are given, the definition in later Armenian, some brief...
DescriptionThis volume contains the dissertation (Catholic University of Louvain) of the Belgian scholar J. B. Abbeloos, who would later be known, at least among Syriac scholars, as co-editor and translator...
DescriptionBegun by Peter Benedictus (Mobarak) and continued by Stephen Evodius Assemani, the great Roman edition of Ephrem’s works, based on Vatican manuscripts, was the result of the first major effort to...
DescriptionEminent Syriac and Arabic scholar William Wright here offers an edition of the homilies of the early Syriac father, Aphrahat. The work was originally proposed and begun by Cureton, but Wright took it...
DescriptionThese two volumes constitute the second part (nun-taw) of the Syriac-Arabic dictionary of the 10th cent. physician Isho bar Ali (the first half of the dictionary had been published in 1874 by G....
DescriptionFrothingham here offers the Syriac text, with an annotated Italian translation, of Jacob of Sarug’s homily on the Baptism of Constantine. The text is based chiefly on two manuscripts, one from the...
DescriptionThese two volumes constitute the second part (nun-taw) of the Syriac-Arabic dictionary of the 10th cent. physician Isho bar Ali (the first half of the dictionary had been published in 1874 by G....
DescriptionWhile previous scholars, such as Assemani and Abbeloos, had made some forays into studying the life and works of Jacob of Sarug, the French Syriac scholar Abbé Martin in this work, which was...
DescriptionJ. P. N. Land spent 1857-58 in London studying Syriac manuscripts. These four volumes are the result of that labor, and they remain an essential source for Syriac students interested in a variety of...