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Syriac Legal Documents of the 3rd Century CE

John Francis Healey
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      This book provides a re-edition and translation of the Syriac legal parchments of the mid 3rd century CE from Upper Mesopotamia, along with extensive commentary. These documents constitute our earliest significant evidence of the Syriac language and script, since only short epigraphs on stone and in mosaics survive otherwise. The texts are reproduced in Syriac script and in transliteration, while plates of the documents and script charts are also included, along with chapters devoted to script and language (in the context of the development of the later Classical Syriac forms) and to law (in the context of the adaptation of Aramaic law to Romanization).

      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: John Francis Healey EAN: 9789004730656 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: 268 WEIGHT: 571 g HEIGHT: 235 mm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 2025-08-28 CITY: GENRE: RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice, RELIGION / Christianity / Orthodox, RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology, RELIGION / Ancient, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology WIDTH: 155 mm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Ancient Egypt, Syriac, Archaeology by period / region, Judaism: life and practice, Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches, Ancient religions and Mythologies

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      John F. Healey, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester, specialises on Middle Aramaic epigraphy (Nabataean, Palmyrene, Syriac). His publications include, with the late Professor Han Drijvers as co-author, The Old Syriac Inscriptions of Edessa and Osrhoene (Brill, 1999).

      This book provides a re-edition and translation of the Syriac legal parchments of the mid 3rd century CE from Upper Mesopotamia, along with extensive commentary. These documents constitute our earliest significant evidence of the Syriac language and script, since only short epigraphs on stone and in mosaics survive otherwise. The texts are reproduced in Syriac script and in transliteration, while plates of the documents and script charts are also included, along with chapters devoted to script and language (in the context of the development of the later Classical Syriac forms) and to law (in the context of the adaptation of Aramaic law to Romanization).

      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: John Francis Healey EAN: 9789004730656 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: 268 WEIGHT: 571 g HEIGHT: 235 mm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 2025-08-28 CITY: GENRE: RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice, RELIGION / Christianity / Orthodox, RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology, RELIGION / Ancient, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology WIDTH: 155 mm SPINE:

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      Ancient Egypt, Syriac, Archaeology by period / region, Judaism: life and practice, Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches, Ancient religions and Mythologies

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      John F. Healey, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester, specialises on Middle Aramaic epigraphy (Nabataean, Palmyrene, Syriac). His publications include, with the late Professor Han Drijvers as co-author, The Old Syriac Inscriptions of Edessa and Osrhoene (Brill, 1999).

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