Florilegia Syriaca: Mapping a Knowledge-Organizing Practice in the Syriac World

From 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004527540
• ISBN13: 9789004527546
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"