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Transcribed Proper Names in Chinese Syriac Christian Documents

By Hidemi Takahashi

Book information

Publisher
Gorgias Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9781463216719
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
630 kB (645546 bytes)
Pages
37\37
Time added
2023-05-28 23:20:52

Description

Christianity reached China in its Syriac guise in the seventh century. Christian documents written in Chinese which have come down to us from the period of the Tang Dynasty contain a large number of proper names which are, or appear to be, transcriptions of Syriac names. In this paper, originally published in Malphono w-Rabo d-Malphone: Studies in Honor of Sebastian P. Brock, the author provides a list of the transcribed proper names with their modern and reconstructed Middle Chinese pronunciations, together with the suggestions made by scholars in the past for the original forms of these names.

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