Syriac Studies

"Cet alphabet a été adapté des anciens alphabets sémitiques utilisées dans le livre d'Isaïe, et dans tout le Moyen-Orient afin de désigner le dialecte araméen galiléen qui avait été annoncé par Jésus-Christ et ses apôtres; par S.E. Hadrian Mâr Elijah Bar Israël, l'archevêque nazaréen, pour une utilisation dans les textes liturgiques du rite Nazarani.

Voici l'alphabet araméen nasréen comparées côte à côte avec l'alphabet syriaque (estrangela) qui a suivi après.
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The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of a few Syriac texts, from the 6th to the 9th century, dealing with some questions about the soul. Except for the first treatise, a "Logos peri psychès" translated from Greek into Syriac, all the others were composed in Syriac, by Aḥudemmeh (6th century), Jacob of Edessa (7th century), John of Dara and Moshe bar Kepha (9th century). In this paper we are interested in the properly philosophical aspects of the works, even if the context of their composition was religious. It will emerge that a brief corpus of questions is common to all the authors, – questions about the existence, the incorporeality, the simplicity, the eternity of the soul. Moreover, as it will appear, some authors tried to find harmony between philosophy and theology.

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Ce mémoire a pour objet une meilleure compréhension du système astrologique présent dans le Livre des lois des pays [ci-après LLP]. Considéré comme un chef-d'oeuvre de la littérature syriaque, le LLP est un dialogue entre le philosophe et théologien syrien Bardesane et certains de ses disciples. Rédigé à la fin du deuxième ou au début du troisième siècle de notre ère, ce traité porte sur la réfutation de la toute-puissance du destin et des astres ainsi que sur la promotion du libre arbitre. Pour réfuter le fatalisme absolu, l'auteur prête à Bardesane une argumentation d'ordre astrologique, qui se fonde sur l'emploi de plusieurs termes et notions techniques relatifs à cette discipline. Notre recherche poursuit un objectif double. Dans un premier temps, nous situerons le LLP dans l'histoire de l'astrologie antique. Nous produirons ensuite un commentaire sur le système astrologique mis en place par l'auteur. L'analyse du vocabulaire astrologique syriaque du LLP nous permettra d'atteindre ces deux objectifs.

The Aramaic incantation bowls from Sasanian Mesopotamia are the most important source we have for studying the everyday beliefs of the Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean, Zoroastrian and Pagan communities on the eve of the Islamic conquests. In A Corpus of Syriac Incantation Bowls, Marco Moriggi presents new editions of forty-nine Syriac incantation bowls that were originally published between 1853 and 2012, with accompanying introductions, translations, philological notes, photographs and glossaries. Furthermore, there is a detailed analysis of the Estrangela and Manichaean scripts as used on the bowls, together with newly drawn script charts. In gathering, organising and updating most of the published Syriac bowls, this book provides a valuable resource for further research into both their language and content.

After the death of Alexander III of Macedon, the Seleucid Empire emerged as one of the most powerful Hellenistic kingdoms of Asia. His huge territorial extension and the various peoples who came under their control necessitated the creation of a mighty army that would ensure their control and help protectit from its enemies.

"Adapted from the ancient Semitic alphabets used in the Isaiah Scroll, and throughout the Middle East in order to denote the Galilean Aramaic dialect which was spoken by Jesus Christ and His apostles; by H.E. Hadrian Mâr Élijah Bar Israël, the Nazarani Metropolitan, for use in the liturgical texts of the Nazarani Rîte.
Here is the Netseran alphabet compared side by side with the Syriac (Estrangela) alphabet that followed after it."