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Book SynopsisFrom the 6th century onwards, Syriac patristic florilegia – collections of Greek patristic excerpts in Syriac translation – progressively became a prominent form through which Syriac and Arab Christians shaped their knowledge of theology. In these collections, early Greek Christian literature underwent a substantial process of selection and re-organization. The papers collected in this volume study Syriac florilegia in their own right, as cultural products possessing their own specific textuality, and outline a phenomenology of Syriac patristic florilegia by mapping their diffusion and relevance in time and space, from the 6th to the 17th century, from the Roman Empire to China.
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Syriac Florilegia and Patristic Christianity beyond East and West Emiliano Fiori 2 An Unpublished Syriac Collection of the Old Testament Testimonia against the Jews from the Early Islamic Period Sergey Minov 3 Tongues on a Golden Mouth: The Transition from Scholia to Florilegia as Evidenced in a Sixth-Century Syriac Chrysostom Manuscript Yonatan Moss 4 Heresiology and Florilegia: The Reception of Epiphanius of Salamis’ Panarion and Ephrem the Syrian’s Prose Refutations and Hymns against Heresies Flavia Ruani 5 A Geological Approach to Syriac Miaphysite Christology (Sixth-Ninth Centuries): Detours of a Patristic Florilegium from Antioch to Tagrit Emiliano Fiori 6 Patristic Tradition, Trinitarian Doctrine, and Metaphysics in Abū Rāʾiṭah al-Takrītī’s Polemics against the Melkites Bishara Ebeid 7 Beyond Abbreviation: The Reception of Gregory of Nyssa, Severus of Antioch, and the Song of Songs in a Syriac Exegetical Collection (BL Add. 12168) Marion Pragt 8 A Syriac Monk’s Reading of Ephrem of Nisibis: A Perspective on Syriac Monastic Miscellanies Grigory Kessel 9 Meandering through Monastic Miscellanies from Turfan to Iraq: First Remarks on the Comparison of Sogdian Manuscript E28 with Syriac Ascetic Collections Referable to It Vittorio Berti 10 The Shining Lamp: An Arabic Florilegium of Conciliar Texts Herman G.B. Teule Index of Ancient Authors and Works Index of Manuscripts Index of Modern Authors
