The patristic "Masora" : a study of patristic collections in Syriac handbooks from the Near East
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The patristic "Masora" : a study of patristic collections in Syriac handbooks from the Near East
（Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, v. 689 . Scriptores Syri ; t. 265）
In Aedibus Peeters, 2020
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Bibliography: p. [xi]-xxiv
Includes indexes
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Description
Though fairly distinct among Syriac manuscripts, the nearly twenty
exemplars of the so-called Syriac "Masora" remain relatively unknown and
often misunderstood. These handbooks were developed to help the reader
pronounce, interpret, and compare words from across a spectrum of
different sources: including works of patristics, theology, liturgy, and
the Bible. Because earlier studies of this genre have focused, almost
exclusively, on the biblical portions of these manuscripts, little has
been known about the collections of excerpts from 255 patristic-era
writings included in many of these handbooks. This volume is the
first-ever study and transcription of over ten thousand excerpted
'vocalized words and readings' (smohe w-qroyoto) from works
attributed to Greek writers such as Ps.-Dionysius, Basil, Gregory of
Nazianzus, and Severus of Antioch. This material has the potential to
inform not only Syriac studies and Patristics, but the broader study of
literacy and modes of learning in the Medieval Middle East.
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