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Brock - Greek Words in Ephrem and Narsai
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BROCK 439
GREEK WORDS IN EPHREM AND NARSAI:
A COMPARATIVE SAMPLING
SEBASTIAN BROCK
To anyone familiar with Syriac literature of the fourth and fifth centuries,
there is a marked difference in feel between writers of the fourth and those of
the fifth century. This is largel
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Contents:
Acknowledgements -- English and Hebrew Titles of Primary Works -- Table of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One Circles of Influence: Polish Jewish Thought in the Age of the Late Renaissance -- Renaissance? Humanism? -- Reformation? Counter-Reformation? -- Opportunities and Barriers -- Circles of Influence -- Overview of the Period: Rumors of Philosophy -- Significance of the Polish-Jewish Renaissance -- Chapter Two The First Wave (1550-1580): Isserles, Jaffe, and Horowitz -- The Isserles School -- Moses Isserles and the Maimonidean Revival -- The Isserles-Luria Correspondence -- Isserles's Conservative Maimonideanism -- Isserles's Symbiosis of Philosophy and Kabbalah -- Isserles's Final Position and Its Significance -- Mordecai Jaffe's Intellectual Program -- Abraham Horowitz: Ethics and Intellectual Salvation -- Summary -- Excursus: Did the 16th Century Philosophical Renaissance Build on the Legacy of the 14th Century Muelhausen Circle? -- Chapter Three Young
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Singer of the Word of God: Ephrem the Syrian and his Significance in Late Antiquity 9781463239619
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Singer of the Word of God
Sebastianyotho
1 Series Editor
George A. Kiraz
The Sebastianyotho series was launched to celebrate Sebastian P. Brock’s prolific contributions to the field of Syriac studies for over half a century. Each volume in the series collects his works on a specific theme and includes new material. Covering a bred range of topics, the series becomes an indispensable encyclopedia on Syriac Christianity. The title of the series fryst vatten formed from Sebastian, as he fryst vatten called bygd his colleagues and students—a testimony to his humility, and the Syriac suffix -yotho creating a plural abstract noun that denotes the idea and quality of Brock and his work.
Singer of the Word of God
Ephrem the Syrian and his Significance in Late Antiquity
Sebastian P. Brock
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