Humanities / Language & Literature
Format: Paperback
Pages: 71
ISBN: 9781611431544
Pub Date: 07 Aug 2010
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Every region around the world has a version of the Fountain of Youth myth. The author is concerned as to the origin of the story. He concludes that India is the source of the fable.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 19
ISBN: 9781611430172
Pub Date: 07 Aug 2010
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Friedrich Hrozny believes that Hittite is an Indo-European language. On face value, Hrzony makes a strong case. However, Maurice Bloomfield is not entirely convinced by Hrozny’s evidence that Hittite belongs to this etymological group.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 22
ISBN: 9781611430189
Pub Date: 07 Aug 2010
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
The name Copt is restricted to the sect which has formed the national Christian Church of Egypt. This article is an attempt to illustrate the main characteristics of the church Coptic as it is uttered in Egypt today.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 53
ISBN: 9781617196249
Pub Date: 05 Aug 2010
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
This small practice book for learning to read Syriac went through several printings at the Dominican Press in Mosul. It guides the reader through letter forms into words and then some practice reading passages.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
ISBN: 9781617196218
Pub Date: 05 Aug 2010
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
This reading or practice book for this Aramaic dialect was originally published at the Catholic Press of Urmia. It progresses from simple letter forms on to words, phrases, sentences, and then short narratives.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 91
ISBN: 9781617196201
Pub Date: 05 Aug 2010
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
This handbook for grammatical forms in Syriac provides students and scholars with a quick reference for the various forms of nouns, pronouns, and verbs, and also offers a simple way to learn Syriac grammatical terminology.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 118
ISBN: 9781617191169
Pub Date: 24 Jun 2010
Series: Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
Description:
This collection of essays concerns Ottoman literature in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mingnon raises questions about commonly-accepted assumptions about the nature of Ottoman literary history.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 1104
ISBN: 9781617194016
Pub Date: 17 Jun 2010
Series: Kiraz Historical Dictionaries Archive
Description:
Greek-English and English-Greek dictionary with an Appendix of Proper and Geographical Names.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 38
ISBN: 9781617190346
Pub Date: 04 Jun 2010
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Professor Lepsiuis’ created the standard alphabet for reducing unwritten languages and foreign graphic systems to a uniform orthography in European letters. The validity and strength of this alphabet is tested by Whitney and the American Oriental Society.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 182
ISBN: 9781607249351
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
In this important study, still a standard resource on Aphrahat, Schwen deals with that writer’s life, works, and doctrine. It will be of certain use for students of Syriac literature and early Syriac Christianity.
Pages: 494
ISBN: 9781607248606
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Pages: 338
ISBN: 9781607248613
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
These two volumes present a German translation of Barhebraeus’s longer Syriac grammar, which covers both the eastern and western dialects of Syriac. In addition, Moberg includes an introduction, textual apparatus, and a lengthy appendix on grammatical terminology.
Pages: 338
ISBN: 9781607248613
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Pages: 494
ISBN: 9781607248606
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
These two volumes present a German translation of Barhebraeus’s longer Syriac grammar, which covers both the eastern and western dialects of Syriac. In addition, Moberg includes an introduction, textual apparatus, and a lengthy appendix on grammatical terminology.
Pages: 856
ISBN: 9781607248408
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Pages: 714
ISBN: 9781607248415
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
Ciakciak’s dictionary is one of the standard resources for the study of classical Armenian. The words are defined in both Armenian and Italian. Following prefaces in both languages, the author gives some helpful grammatical reference tables.
Pages: 714
ISBN: 9781607248415
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Pages: 856
ISBN: 9781607248408
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
Ciakciak’s dictionary is one of the standard resources for the study of classical Armenian. The words are defined in both Armenian and Italian. Following prefaces in both languages, the author gives some helpful grammatical reference tables.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 162
ISBN: 9781607248200
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
Using manuscripts from the British Museum, Sachau here presents a number of unique Syriac texts translated from Greek, including philosophical, medical, and maxim texts. The appendix includes astronomical texts from Sergius of Reshaina and Severus Sebokt.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 504
ISBN: 9781607248446
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2010
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
From the storied transmission of this famous collection of Indian fables came two Syriac translations. This is an edition of the earlier translation (re-edited after the editio princeps) with German translation and notes.
