The Earliest Syriac in its Aramaic Context
Professor John Healey
University of Manchester
5.00pm, Tuesday, 29th May, 2012
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Site), Room 8-9.
All are welcome. The event will be followed by a reception.
Abstract
The lecture will discuss and illustrate the earliest surviving “Syriac” inscriptions and documents (1st – 3rd centuries CE) and their significance for our understanding of the emergence of Classical Syriac. By contrast with the almost exclusively Christian literature produced in Classical Syriac, “Old Syriac” was used in a largely pagan context and is to be understood linguistically and culturally in the context of other contemporary epigraphic corpora such as the texts fromPalmyra
and Hatra. The considerable variation among the Aramaic dialects in this region
of Syria and Mesopotamia at this period will be examined, as will the
emerging evidence for the later use of Syriac for commercial purposes.
Professor John Healey
University of Manchester
5.00pm, Tuesday, 29th May, 2012
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Site), Room 8-9.
All are welcome. The event will be followed by a reception.
Abstract
The lecture will discuss and illustrate the earliest surviving “Syriac” inscriptions and documents (1st – 3rd centuries CE) and their significance for our understanding of the emergence of Classical Syriac. By contrast with the almost exclusively Christian literature produced in Classical Syriac, “Old Syriac” was used in a largely pagan context and is to be understood linguistically and culturally in the context of other contemporary epigraphic corpora such as the texts from
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