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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Syriac Language and Literature |
 | | Syriac is the important branch of the group of Semitic languages known as Aramaic. | | | Nevertheless, the destruction was not complete; Syriac, or rather Aramaic, modified according to the laws of evolution common to all languages, is still spoken in the three villages in the neighbourhood of Damascus, in Tour Abdin (Mesopotamia, between Nisibis and the Tigris), and in Kurdistan, especially in the neighbourhood of Ourmiah. | | | Henana of Adiabene at the end of the sixth century drew to Nisibis a large number of disciples; his teaching caused serious dissentions in the Nestorian Church, for he abandoned the doctrines of Theodore of Mopsuestia to attach himself to St. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14408a.htm
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| | Gouden Hoorn 5,1: Edip Aydın |
| | The reason that Syriac "came to be adopted as the literary language of Aramaic speaking Christians all over Mesopotamia may in part be due to the prestige enjoyed by Edessa as a result of its claim to possess a letter written by Jesus to its king (of Arab stock) named Abgar the Black". | | | Syriac belongs to the Semitic family of languages, and is a dialect of Aramaic. | | | One of the earliest texts of the Syriac language which provides a foretaste of its beauty and splendour is to be found in the beautiful lyric Odes of Solomon. |
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http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/goudenhoorn/51edip.html
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| | Margoneetho: Syriac Orthodox Resources |
| | Like an exquisite pearl hidden in an oyster, the spiritual heritage of the Syriac Orthodox Church, one of the most ancient Christian churches, remains obscure to much of the world today. | | | This magnificently illustrated book by Rev. Hans Hollerweger with over 400 color photographs is a pictorial guide to Tur Abdin in SE Turkey where the Syriac Orthodox faith flourished from the earliest days of the Christian Church until the beginning of the 20th century. | | | A three volume encyclopaedic work on the Aramaic heritage—language, history, and culture with a focus on the Syriac Orthodox Church in two volumes. |
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http://sor.cua.edu
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| | Syriac Versions of the Bible, by Thomas Nicol |
| | Most of the apocryphal books of the Old Testament are found in the Syriac, and the Book of Sirach is held to have been translated from the Hebrew and not from the Septuagint. | | | The famous Nestorian tablet of Sing-an-fu witnesses to the presence of the Syriac Scriptures in the heart of China in the 7th century. | | | It means "the Gospel of the Separated," and points to the existence of single Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, in a Syriac translation, in contradistinction to Tatian's Harmony. |
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http://www.bible-researcher.com/syriac-isbe.html
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| | THE SYRIAC CATHOLIC CHURCH: History |
| | The number of the faithfuls of the Syriacs Orthodox of the Indies is estimated to close to two million; the Catholic Malankare to half a million. | | | The Church took the name of Syriac Catholic when Ignatius Andre AKHIDJAN was elected patriarch in 1662. | | | Today it constitutes a semi-autonomous church, called Syriac Orthodox church of the Indies. |
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http://www.opuslibani.org.lb/church/syriac/ehistory.htm
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| | Versions of the New Testament |
| | Based on the materials available, the Old Syriac epistles (which may well be older than the Gospels, since the Diatessaron served as "the gospel" for so long) have a textual complextion similar to the gospels. | | | No Syriac manuscripts of the version survive, and we have no more than a small fragment of the Greek (in the Dura parchment 0212, a gospel harmony thought by some to be Diatessaric, though the most recent editors think otherwise). | | | The history of the Syriac versions probably begins with the Diatessaron, the gospel harmony which Tatian compiled (in Greek or Syriac) in the second half of the second century. |
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http://www.skypoint.com/~waltzmn/Versions.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Syriac Hymnody |
| | From the ninth century the influence of Arabic poetry made itself felt in Syriac hymnody, especially by the introduction of rhyme, this manner of marking the final stroke of a verse had been hitherto unknown, the rare examples held to have been discovered among older authors being merely voluntary or fortuitous assonances. | | | Sometimes the acrostic is linear, simple when each verse begins successively with one of the twenty-two letters of the Syriac alphabet, multiple, when two, three, or more verses begin with the same letter without, forming strophes; sometimes it is strophic, when each strophe is marked by a letter of the alphabet. | | | Extensive study of Syriac hymnody would show whether there is any relationship between it and Byzantine hymnody, an hypothesis which has had as many opponents as defenders; but this study has not yet been attempted, and it is an undertaking fraught with difficulties, owing to the small number of documents published in satisfactory condition. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14407a.htm
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| | Syriac Bible |
| | Many old Syriac manuscripts of the Biblical texts survive and can be found in the major museums and libraries of the world and of course in the ancient Syriac libraries of the Middle East as well. | | | The Syriac Old Testament is a translation from the original Hebrew and Aramaic (a different Aramaic dialect from Syriac which is known by the name 'Biblical Aramaic'). | | | In fact, the Syriac Church Fathers produced a number of translations of the Bible and revisions of these translations from the original languages of the Bible. |
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http://sor.cua.edu/Bible
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| | SYRIAC DOCUMENTS |
| | The Hallowing of Addai and Mari Disciplers of the East in Syriac. | | | The Hallowing of Addai and Mari Disciplers of the East in Syriac |
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http://www.cired.org/pdf.html
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| | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. XIII |
| | They are the earliest Syriac authors of whom any considerable remains survive; and they both represent the religious mind of the Syrian Church, but little affected by influences from without, other than the all-pervading influence of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures. | | | Prescribed in Edessa, the centre of Syriac theology, these discourses would be effectually checked in their circulation in all churches of Syriac-speaking Christendom that were anti-Nestorian. | | | By nationality a Persian, in an age when Zoroastrianism was the religion of Persia, he wrote in Syriac as a Christian theologian. |
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http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-13/Npnf2-13-12.htm
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| | Syriac New Testament, catalog of versions |
| | The earliest evidence for the Old Syriac separate gospels is their use by bishop Aitalaha of Edessa who was bishop of Edessa from AD 323 to AD 345 or 346. | | | Vööbus gathered the extant Greek and Syriac fragments which were written by Rabbula and by examining his gospel quotations, proved that Bishop Rabbula actually used an Old Syriac gospel text like S and C, not the Peshitta. | | | After AD 425, the Old Syriac separate gospels continued in use for many centuries and there is no evidence that they were ever officially suppressed. |
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http://www.srr.axbridge.org.uk/syriac_versions.html
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| | Syriac |
| | The Syriac Version of the Old Testament: An Introduction. | | | Syriac began to yield to Arabic after the coming of Islam in the 7th cent. | | | Europe's highest Syriac Orthodox priest to be buried in the Netherlands (AP Worldstream) |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0847518.html
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| | Christian Syriac and Aramaic studies |
| | From the historical evidence, Syriac gospel texts existed from the early second century AD onwards, this means that the earliest known Syriac texts are about the same age as the oldest known Greek New Testament fragments! | | | In Syriac this gospel was called 'The Gospel of the Mixed'. | | | The fact that Syriac is an Aramaic dialect, so that the gospel written in Syriac is written in a language very similar to the language and dialect that Jesus spoke. |
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http://www.srr.axbridge.org.uk/syriac_intro.html
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| | Ancient Scripts: Syriac |
| | As Syriac Aramaic has changed little in the last two thousand years, Assyrians are proud that they speak a language with a direct link to the ancient world and to Jesus Christ. | | | Note that a modified y or w diacritic is written after the consonant letter, but as Syriac is written from right to left, the vowel diacritic will appear to the left of the consonant letter. | | | Estrangela inscriptions date from as far back as the year 6 CE, and by the 3rd century CE the Bible and Christian theological works had been translated into Syriac. |
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http://www.ancientscripts.com/syriac.html
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| | Syriac Bibliography |
| | Fragments of sixth century Palestinian Syriac texts of the Gospels, of the Acts of the Apostles and of St. Paul's Epistles. | | | E.A.W. Budge, The Discourses of Philoxenus, Bishop of Mabbôgh, A.D. Edited from Syriac manuscripts of the sixth and seventh centuries, in the British Museum, with an English translation London (1893-94) 2 vols. | | | Margoliouth, The Palestinian Syriac version of the Holy Scriptures : 4 recently discovered portions together (with verses from the Psalms, and the Gospel of St. Luke) : edited, in photographic facsimile, from a unique MS. |
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http://cpart.byu.edu/ECRL/biblio.php
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| | 'Review' Of 'Die syro-aramäische Lesart des Koran: Ein Beitrag zur Entschlüsselung der Koransprache' ('Christoph Luxenberg', 2000, Das Arabische Buch: Berlin) By Angelika Neuwirth |
| | Luxenberg has the merit to have raised anew the old question of the Syriac stratum of Qur'anic textual history that had - since Mingana - been marginalised. | | | But since the monotheist tradition that the Qur'an continues is based on scripture codified in Hebrew and Greek, and circulating predominantly in Syriac which was also the language of a host of liturgical texts, it is hard to believe that the Qur'an should be devoid of traces of that tradition either spiritually or linguistically. | | | The general thesis underlying his entire book thus is that the Qur'an is a corpus of translations and paraphrases of original Syriac texts recited in church services as elements of a lectionary. |
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http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Text/luxreview1.html
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| | Syriac Bible, Syriac Fonts, Syriac General Office, Syriac Learn, Syriac Reference, Syriac Software - Mac, Syriac Software - Windows, Syriac System, Syriac Word Processing, |
| | In modern usage the term Syriac generally refers to the liturgical language of the Maronite Catholic Church, the Syrian Catholic Church, the Syrian Jacobite Church(NOTE: The PC term (used by the World Council of Churches) is the Syrian Orthodox Church. | | | Syriac (or Aramaic) continued to be spoken until the rise of Islam, when it quickly gave way to the dominant influence of Arabic. | | | The first Syriac alphabet developed from a later form of Aramaic used at Palmyra in Syria. |
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http://www.worldlanguage.com/Languages/Syriac.htm
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| | Syriac Christianity |
| | A) The Syriac Church is a unifying tradition. | | | The Maronite Church is unique in that it is an entire Syriac Church that is in full contact and communion with the Church in the West. | | | The book this is found in is a book of Gospels in Syriac. |
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http://www.mari.org/JMS/january01/Syriac_Christianity.htm
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| | An Aramaic Approach to the Greek Gospels for readers |
| | Old Syriac manuscripts and the Peshitta appear to have, instead, a direct reliance on Tatian's Diatessaron Gospel Harmonies and also on the Greek texts. | | | Syriac - Aramaic Texts of the Gospels and Acts | | | Although the Syriac - Aramaic texts we have do use the same language of the original sayings-source, the |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/6623/aramaic.htm
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| | Beth Mardutho: About The Syriac Language |
| | The Syriac writing system lent its vocalization system to Hebrew and Arabic in the 7th century, before which Semitic languages were written using consonants only. | | | Syriac is the Aramaic dialect of Edessa (present-day Urfa in southeast Turkey), a center of early intellectual activity. | | | Syriac is a form of Aramaic, a language whose many dialects have been in continuous use since the 11th century BC. |
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http://www.bethmardutho.org/aboutsyriac
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| | Beith Souryoyé Morounoyé |
| | The Syriac Maronites, The Antiochan Syriac Maronite Church, qurbono, qolo, ephrem, liturgy, anaphore, anaphora, syriac aramaic lessons, shhimto, prayers, audio, hymn, hymns, icon, rabbula, epistles |
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http://www.beith-morounoye.org
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| | Noturo.com Syriansk / Arameiska informationsportal |
| | News The walls are bare and the congregation sits in chairs instead of pews, but for the members of St. Aphraim's Syriac Orthodox Church in Alexandria, the important parts are there â stained glass windows, the gold-domed altar and the people. | | | At a St. Aphraim's service Sunday, Nov. 6, the small church was filled with sound as the nearly 50 congregants sang hymns and prayers in a language as old, they said, as Jesus Christ. | | | News On Tuesday, 22 November a 3-hour seminar was organized at the University of Stockholm, described as " the beginning of something greater to come." The topics covered at this seminar dealt with the rich Syriac heritage in the form of manuscripts and books from early church fathers and other sources. |
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http://www.noturo.com
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| | Syriac - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers |
| | Syriac is the right-to-left script that is used for the Syriac language, which belongs to the Semitic group and is mostly confined to liturgical use in Christian churches in the Middle East and in south-east India, although there are also some native speakers in the Middle East. | | | You can see some Unicode Syriac on Abed Dawod’s test pageand on The Lord's Prayer page. | | | A Syriac Unicode keyboard layout for Mac OS X 10.2 can be downloaded from Aramaic Keyboards for Mac OS X; it has been produced by Steve Caruso. |
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http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/syriac.html
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