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

Description

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. ‎Contents ‎Figures and Tables ‎Abbreviations ‎Notes on Contributors ‎Chapter 1. Syriac Florilegia and Patristic Christianity beyond East and West (Fiori) ‎Chapter 2. An Unpublished Syriac Collection of the Old Testament Testimonia against the Jews from the Early Islamic Period (Minov) ‎Chapter 3. Tongues on a Golden Mouth: The Transition from Scholia to Florilegia as Evidenced in a Sixth-Century Syriac Chrysostom Manuscript (Moss) ‎Chapter 4. Heresiology and Florilegia: The Reception of Epiphanius of Salamis’ Panarion and Ephrem the Syrian’s Prose Refutations and Hymns against Heresies (Ruani) ‎Chapter 5. A Geological Approach to Syriac Miaphysite Christology (Sixth–Ninth Centuries): Detours of a Patristic Florilegium from Antioch to Tagrit (Fiori) ‎Chapter 6. Patristic Tradition, Trinitarian Doctrine, and Metaphysics in Abū Rāʾiṭah al-Takrītī’s Polemics against the Melkites (Ebeid) ‎Chapter 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) (Pragt) ‎Chapter 8. A Syriac Monk’s Reading of Ephrem of Nisibis: A Perspective on Syriac Monastic Miscellanies (Kessel) ‎Chapter 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 (Berti) ‎Chapter 10. The Shining Lamp: An Arabic Florilegium of Conciliar Texts (Teule) ‎Index of Ancient Authors and Works ‎Index of Manuscripts ‎Index of Modern Authors