Religious poetry in Vernacular Syriac from Northern Iraq (17th-20th centuries) : an anthology

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    • Mengozzi, Alessandro
    • Braida, Emanuela

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Religious poetry in Vernacular Syriac from Northern Iraq (17th-20th centuries) : an anthology

edited by Alessandro Mengozzi ; with contributions by Emanuela Braida ... [et al.]

(Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, v. 627-628 . Scriptores Syri ; t. 240-241)

In Aedibus Peeters, 2011

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[T.]: Text in Syriac and introduction in English ; [V.]: Version translated into English

Includes bibliography ([V.], p. [143]-149) and index

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Volume

[T.] ISBN 9789042922761

Description

Text edition. The present publication ideally continues the CSCO 589-590, in which 17th-century religious poems in Vernacular Syriac (i.e., Neo-Aramaic or Sureth) were published. It offers the reader a rich anthology and the most complete historical sketch of the dorektha genre, surveying published and unpublished works by Chaldean and Assyrian authors. Texts dating from 1607/08 to 1980 AD are critically edited and translated into English, with linguistic, philological and literary comments: On Repentance by Hormizd of Alqosh (17th cent.) ; the poetic diptych On the Torments of Hell and On the Delights of the Kingdom by Damynanos of Alqosh, which shows the author's indebtedness to Italian Baroque sermons; On a Famine in the Year 1898 by the poetess Anne of Telkepe, probably the first work by a woman to enter the CSCO; the fascinating and living story of the Hermit Barmalka by Joseph 'Abbaya of Alqosh; On an Attack by the Mongols at Karamlish, in which Thomas Hanna of Karamlish elaborates on classical sources such as Gewargis Warda and Barhebreus; the touching and beautiful elegy On Exile by Yohannan Cholagh, who deals with the Christian emigration from Iraq, a contemporary social problem that is even more pressing today than in 1980, when the poem first appeared in Qala Suryaya.
Volume

[V.] ISBN 9789042922778

Description

English translation. The present publication ideally continues the CSCO 589-590, in which 17th-century religious poems in Vernacular Syriac (i.e., Neo-Aramaic or Sureth) were published. It offers the reader a rich anthology and the most complete historical sketch of the dorektha genre, surveying published and unpublished works by Chaldean and Assyrian authors. Texts dating from 1607/08 to 1980 AD are critically edited and translated into English, with linguistic, philological and literary comments: On Repentance by Hormizd of Alqosh (17th cent.) ; the poetic diptych On the Torments of Hell and On the Delights of the Kingdom by Damynanos of Alqosh, which shows the author's indebtedness to Italian Baroque sermons; On a Famine in the Year 1898 by the poetess Anne of Telkepe, probably the first work by a woman to enter the CSCO; the fascinating and living story of the Hermit Barmalka by Joseph 'Abbaya of Alqosh; On an Attack by the Mongols at Karamlish, in which Thomas Hanna of Karamlish elaborates on classical sources such as Gewargis Warda and Barhebreus; the touching and beautiful elegy On Exile by Yohannan Cholagh, who deals with the Christian emigration from Iraq, a contemporary social problem that is even more pressing today than in 1980, when the poem first appeared in Qala Suryaya.

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  • NCID
    BB07030860
  • ISBN
    • 9789042922761
    • 9789042922778
  • Country Code
    be
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    engsyr
  • Place of Publication
    Lovanii
  • Pages/Volumes
    2 v.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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