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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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| | Christian Syriac and Aramaic studies |
| | 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. | | | Syriac is an ancient language, a dialect of the Aramaic spoken in Babylon and Assyria between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers since the dawn of historic times. | | | In Syriac this gospel was called 'The Gospel of the Mixed'. |
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http://www.srr.axbridge.org.uk/syriac_intro.html
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| | Syriac language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Western Middle Syriac is the official language of the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Syrian Catholic Church, the Maronite Church, the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church, the Mar Thoma Church and the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. | | | Eastern Middle Syriac is the liturgical language of the Assyrian Church of the East, the Chaldean Catholic Church and the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. | | | Syriac is a member of the Afro-Asiatic language family, the Semitic language sub-family, the West Semitic language branch, and the Aramaic language group. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac
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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 a form of Aramaic, a language whose many dialects have been in continuous use since the 11th century BC. | | | The earliest dated manuscript was produced in November 411, probably the earliest dated manuscript in any language. |
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http://www.bethmardutho.org/aboutsyriac
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| | Margoneetho: Syriac Orthodox Resources |
| | A three volume encyclopaedic work on the Aramaic heritage—language, history, and culture with a focus on the Syriac Orthodox Church in two volumes. | | | 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. |
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http://sor.cua.edu
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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. | | | It was used to write Syriac, a dialect of the Aramaic language spoken by Assyrians, in northern Mesopotamia (the area near where the modern nations of Syria, Turkey and Iraq intersect) and particularly focused around the city of Edessa. | | | 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. |
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http://www.ancientscripts.com/syriac.html
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| | The Elements of Syriac Grammar by Reverend George Phillips |
| | The Syriac (Aramaic) language supplies one source of valuable information for the criticism of the Hebrew Bible. | | | From these remarks it will obviously appear desirable that the Bible scholar should acquire a knowledge of the Syriac language. | | | The following "Elements of Syriac Grammar" are intended for the assistance of those students who are desirous of extending their studies to the Syriac (Aramaic) language. |
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http://www.metamind.net/revgrammar.html
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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 |
| | 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. | | | Therefore, the evidence of Syriac/Arabic homonyms or Syriac words bearing some similarity to Qur'anic Arabic words but sounding slightly different from their Arabic counterparts points to an originally Syriac wording of the Qur'anic text that has been wrongly arabicised. | | | The Arabic form in question is understood as due to a textual corruption of its Syriac original made possible by a deficient written tradition, thus allowing the conclusion that oral tradition was non-existent 'Should such an oral transmission have existed at all, it has to be considered as disrupted rather early'. |
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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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| | An Aramaic Approach to the Greek Gospels for readers |
| | Although the Syriac - Aramaic texts we have do use the same language of the original sayings-source, the | | | 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 |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/6623/aramaic.htm
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| | Noturo.com Syriansk / Arameiska informationsportal |
| | 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 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. | | | 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. | | | The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages. |
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http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/syriac.html
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| | Semitic Languages (and the Phoenician language) |
| | Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident. | | | Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these many Middle Easter countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident. | | | The West Aramaic languages include Nabataean, Palmyrene, Aramaic of Hatra, Jewish Palestine Aramaic (or Galilean Aramaic), Samaritan Aramaic and Christian Palestine Aramaic (Palestinian Syriac). |
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http://phoenicia.org/semlang.html
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| | Syriac Unicode Fonts |
| | Syriac script is used for Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (also known as modern Syriac and modern Assyrian), literary and liturgical Syriac, Garshuni (Arabic written in Syriac), and other languages. | | | The Assyrian Aramaic Language Website describes how to write Syriac characters (not Unicode related). | | | Note: This font does not have the OpenType tables necessary for Syriac. |
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http://www.travelphrases.info/gallery/Fonts_Syriac.html
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| | Syriac Christianity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Syriac Christian heritage is transmitted through the Syriac language, a dialect of Aramaic. | | | The Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church, in communion with the Syriac Orthodox Church. | | | Syriac Christians were involved in the mission to India, and many of the ancient churches of India are in communion with their Syriac cousins. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_Christianity
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| | Semitic Languages (and the Phoenician language) |
| | Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident. | | | Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these many Middle Easter countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident. | | | These are the Syriac language (or to use a better term, Syriac dialect because Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic and not a language on its own) of the Christians, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic and Mandaean, the language of the Mandaean Gnostic sect. |
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http://phoenicia.org/semlang.html
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| | ASSYRIANS OF CHICAGO |
| | Until today, the Assyrians speak a distinct modern Assyrian language, Syriac, the language spoken by Jesus Christ. | | | Due to persecution, dispersion and forced assimilation in their native countries, many immigrant Assyrians cannot read and write the Assyrian language. | | | Assyrians are not Arabs, but rather have maintained a continuous and separate identity, language, and culture that predates the Arabization of the Middle East. |
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http://aina.org/aol/ethnic.htm
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| | Assyrian/Syriac fonts |
| | Fonts for Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Coptic, and Semitic-language transliteration. | | | Commercial outfit with language kits (including fonts) for these languages: Burmese, Cherokee, Inuktitut, Kannada, Lepcha, Limbu, Lontara, Malayalam, Sinhala, Telugu, Tibetan, Bassa, Cambodian, Ethiopic, Laotian, Saurashtra, Sylheti, Tai Le, Tamil, Assyrian (Syriac), Burmese, Georgian, Khmer. | | | Farsi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Syriac, South Arabian, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ugaritic, and Vietnamese. |
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http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/assyrian.html
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| | Review of Thackston, Introduction to Syriac |
| | This is not a problem for the reader who comes to Syriac with a background in Hebrew or Arabic. | | | The book is explicitly aimed at the person who comes to Syriac via biblical or theological studies with no previous experience in Semitic languages. | | | Following an introductory chapter dealing with such matters as the history of the Syriac language, the alphabet, phonetics, and vocalization, Thackston provides a series of twenty graded lessons designed to have the reader translating Syriac texts as quickly as possible. |
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http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/vol07/Thackston2002rev.html
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| | Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these many Middle Easter countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident. | | | Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident. | | | These are the Syriac language (or to use a better term, Syriac dialect because Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic and not a language on its own) of the Christians, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic and Mandaean, the language of the Mandaean Gnostic sect. |
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http://www.phoenicia.org/semlang.html
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| | The Iranians themselves, who later succeeded in givinglife to their nationalism and in reviving anew a literature in Persianlanguage, were unable to garble the Arabic language as a language of scienceand religion. | | | The other name is Bishop David who in the 11th centurytranslated from Syriac to Arabic Kitab al-Huda (The Book of Guidance).It is a collection of canons and laws, of liturgical rules and short theologicaltreatise dealing with trinitarian and christological problems. | | | A second, different Arabic is addressed to the people; this is the languageused in hagiography, ascetic literature, and liturgy. |
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http://www.al-bushra.org/arbhrtg/arbxtn01.htm
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| | News & Information - Press Release |
| | Although Arabic replaced Syriac as the principal language in the Middle East, Syriac not only continues to be the liturgical language for millions of Christians today, it is also a spoken language that has experienced a modern revival. | | | She explains that the Syriac language, a dialect of Aramaic, Jesus language, was the lingua franca of Syro-Mesopotamia from the second century A.D. until the Islamic conquests. | | | The symposium will explore all aspects of Syriac Christianity, with an emphasis on cultural and religious interaction. |
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http://www.ptsem.edu/know/pr-bin/archive/2003/syriac03.htm
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| | THE SYRIAC DIGITAL LIBRARY: ADOPT AN EBOOK |
| | Beth Mardutho was established in 1992 to promote the study and preservation of the Syriac heritage and language, and to facilitate opportunities for people to pursue the study of this ancient legacy. | | | The Institute aims to serve the academic community, and the heirs of the heritage the Syriac Orthodox, Assyrians, Maronites, Chaldeans, Syriac Catholics, St. Thomas Christians, and the Antiocheans and Melkites, transcending denominational diversity. | | | The Syriac name of the library, eBeth Arké, literally means 'house of archives' and denotes a library. |
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http://www.mari.org/JMS/july01/Library.html
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| | Christian denomination - encyclopedia article about Christian denomination. |
| | Since Christianity is the largest religion in the world (making approximately one-third of the population), it is necessary to understand the various faith traditions in terms of commonalities and differences between tradition, theology, church government, doctrine, language, and so on. | | | Christianity Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament writings of his early followers. | | | Christian Church The term Christian Church expresses the idea of Christianity (the Christian religion) seen in its role as an institution. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Christian+denomination
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Introduction to Syriac: An Elementary Grammar With Readings from Syriac Literature |
| | Syriac continues as the the liturgical language of some churches, such as the Malabar Church of St. Thomas in India, and the Jacobites and Maronites in the Near East; it is also the classical language of the Nestorians and the Chaldeans. | | | Syriac is also the language of the Church of St, Thomas on the Malabar Coast of India. | | | Syriac is structurally perhaps the simplest of all the Semitic languages. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0936347988?v=glance
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