IV. The Syro-Palestinian Version of the Old and New Testament

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Foreword to the English Edition vii
4. Part I: Syriac Literature And Its Different Genres
5. I. The Origins of Syriac Literature 3
6. II. General Features of Syriac Literature. Poetry 7
7. III. The Ancient Versions of the Old and New Testaments 21
8. IV. The Syro-Palestinian Version of the Old and New Testament 37
9. V. The Later Versions of the Old and New Testament 43
10. VI. The Syrian Masoretic Text 47
11. VII. The Biblical Commentaries 53
12. VIII. The Apocrypha Concerning the Old and New Testament 67
13. IX. The Acts of the Martyrs and of the Saints 97
14. X. The Apologetic Texts 133
15. XI. Ecclesiastical Canons and Civil Law 137
16. XII. The Historiographers 153
17. XIII. Ascetic Literature 187
18. XIV. Philosophy 203
19. XV. The Sciences of the Syrians 231
20. XVI. Grammar, Lexicography, Rhetoric and Poetic 245
21. XVII. Syriac Translations 261
22. Part II: Notes On The Syriac Authors
23. I. Writers up to the 5th Century 283
24. II. Writers up Until the 7th Century 293
25. III. Writers under the Arabs 321
26. Index of Names 363