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Analecta Gorgiana
Analecta Gorgiana is a collection of long essays and short monographs which are consistently cited by modern scholars but previously difficult to find because of their original appearance in obscure publications. Carefully selected by a team of scholars based on their relevance to modern scholarship, these essays can now be fully utilized by scholars and proudly owned by libraries.
Zwei syrische Dichtungen auf das Entschlafen der allerseligsten Jungfrau
Edited and Translated by Anton Baumstark
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 419
ISBN: 978-1-60724-710-4
Anton Baumstark publishes two memre on the subject of Mary’s passing. The first is attributed to Jacob of Serug and the second to John of Birta. Baumstark also provides a brief introduction to the texts.
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Un chapiteau et une imposte provenants d'une ville morte
Etude sur l'origine et l'époque des chapiteaux-corbeille
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 434
ISBN: 978-1-60724-771-5
Wladimir de Grüneisen surveys the history of the basket-design in art and architecture in the Greco-Roman world based on a column capital and transom discovered at Tusculum.
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Ecclesiastes
By Paul Haupt
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 382
ISBN: 978-1-60724-631-2
Paul Haupt's introduction, translation, and commentary on the controversial book of Ecclesiastes in the Hebrew Bible.
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Caesar, Cicero and Ferrero
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 369
ISBN: 978-1-60724-656-5
Sihler's critique of Ferrero's history of Rome, using Cicero and Caesar's work to evaluate the Italian scholar's use of source material.
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The Third Class of Weak Verbs in Primitive Teutonic, with Special Reference to Its Development in An
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 338
ISBN: 978-1-60724-592-6
In this paper Marguerite Sweet offers a tentative explanation by showing parallels not in Latin (as was previously suggested) but in Gothic.
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The Imperfect and the Aorist in Greek
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 348
ISBN: 978-1-60724-602-2
Prof. Miller provides an in-depth examination of the use and meaning of the Aorist and Imperfect tenses in Ancient Greek.
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Servius and the Scholia of Daniel
By R. B. Steele
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 334
ISBN: 978-1-60724-616-9
Steele suggests a division in the longer edition of Servius' commentary on Vergil between Servius and the work of later commentators.
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Remembering Music in Early Greece
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 1052
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0100-5
This paper contemplates the various means by which the Ancient Greeks preserved information about their musical history, highlighting oral/aural tradition and the transition to literacy when inscriptions could capture information in roughly datable contexts. Music history sources and motives are also examined.
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Ras Shamra 18.113A+B, Lettre d’un serviteur du roi d’ougarit se trouvant à chypre
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 1000
ISBN: 978-1-61719-831-1
This article examines a letter composed by an Ugaritian administrator stationed in Cyprus.
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Islam and its Need
By W. Norman Leak; Preface by Samuel Marinus Zwemer
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 704
ISBN: 978-1-61719-823-6
Leak provides a survey of Islam, and its relations to Christendom. His work involves the history, distribution, doctrines, and practice of Islam, and argues that the utter unlikeness of Allah is equivalent to agnosticism.
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An Essay on the Invalidity of Presbyterian Ordination
By John Esten Cooke, M.D. Lexington. 8vo. Pp. 224. 1829
By Anonymous
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 794
ISBN: 978-1-61143-172-8
The article reviews and critiques an essay that attacks Presbyterian ordination. The reviewer points to logical and textual flaws in the argument, indicating the author’s incompetence.
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Sa Chronologie
By T.-J. Lamy
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 569
ISBN: 978-1-61719-528-0
In this essay, Lamy discusses the Chronography of east Syriac author Elias of Nisibis (975-1046). Numerous extracts in Syriac and in French translation are included.
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Das Martyrium des heiligen Abo von Tiflis
By Samuel & Catholicos of Kartli; Translation and Introduction by Karl Schultze
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 558
ISBN: 978-1-61719-297-5
This work is a German-language account of Abo of Tiflis, a Muslim convert to Georgian Christianity in the eighth century.
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Catalogue of Psalms Recited in the Prayers
The Syrian Diocese of Mosul
Introduction by Cyrillus Behnam Benni
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 655
ISBN: 978-1-61719-604-1
This short liturgical guidebook lists the proper Psalms to be read for the daily prayers throughout the year in the Syrian diocese of Mosul.
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Catholic Catechism in the Mosul Dialect of Aramaic (Sureth)
Petit catéchisme en langue chaldéenne vulgaire
By Anonymous
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 673
ISBN: 978-1-61719-623-2
This is the second printing of a Catholic catechism in the Aramaic dialect of Mosul, originally published at the Dominican Press there.
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St. Ephraemi Syri Theologia quantum ex Libris Poeticis Cognosci Potest Explicatur
Ephrem’s Theology as Found in his Poetry
By Albert Haase
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 584
ISBN: 978-1-61719-543-3
This study is set as a theological look at Ephrem the Syrian. After a general introduction, the author systematically examines a number of theological topics based on Ephrem’s poetry. The Syriac passages cited are also translated.
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Codicum Syriacorum Specimina ad Illustrandam Dogmatis de Coena Sacra nec non Scripturae Syriacae His
Specimens of Syriac Manuscripts
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 667
ISBN: 978-1-61719-617-1
This unique volume has a discussion of the lives of the Fathers extant in Syriac texts then at the British Museum. Plates reproduce a number of fragments of these manuscripts, together with Dietrich’s descriptions.
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A Greek Fragment of Tatian's Diatessaron from Dura
With Facsimile, Transcription and Introduction
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 2
ISBN: 1-59333-368-4
Discovered in 1933, a fragment of Tatian’s Diatessaron is published here with critical apparatus, a facsimile, and a transcription. The fragment, a discarded portion of a scroll with 14 surviving lines of text, was likely used in the worship of a third century C.E. chapel excavated at Dura Europos.
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Bardaisan and the Odes of Solomon
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 46
ISBN: 978-1-59333-860-2
A compelling discussion of the origins and authorship of the Odes of Solomon, this work provides great insight into the person of Bar Daysan as well as the research surrounding the text of the Odes of Solomon.
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The Descent of Christ in the Odes of Solomon
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 51
ISBN: 978-1-59333-866-4
This title explores the implications of the Descent of Christ in the twenty-third Ode in regards to astrology and Gnostic thought and supports the thesis of the author’s earlier work that the Odes emerged from a Judaeo-Christian, Mesopotamian setting.
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Ascetic Strains in Early Judaism
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 53
ISBN: 978-1-59333-868-8
Reviewing the relevant Jewish and Christian literature the author demonstrates that though there is no mandate for ascetic practice within early Judaism, there is a deep respect there for an ascetic way of life.
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Intermediaries in Jewish Theology
Memra, Shekinah, and Metatron
By George Moore
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 60
ISBN: 978-1-59333-875-6
A philological study of the usage of Memra, Shekinah, and Metatron in Tragumic and Cabbalistic literature that combats nineteenth century Christian attempts to read these as references to the Second or Third Persons of the Trinity.
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The Early Syriac Lectionary
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 62
ISBN: 978-1-59333-878-7
This piece provides an introduction, translation and commentary to a previously unstudied lectionary text, which provides deeper insight into early liturgical practice and the conception of the canon; and includes an index of the lessons according to books of Scripture.
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The Barlaam and Josaphat Legend in the Ancient Georgian and Armenian Literatures
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 64
ISBN: 978-1-59333-880-0
This work focuses on the literary and textual concerns of the Georgian and Armenian recensions of the Barlaam and Josaphat legend, and provides translations of all that remains of the Georgian text and the relevant Armenian parallels.
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The Jews in Persia
Their Books and Practice
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 66
ISBN: 978-1-59333-882-4
This essay provides a detailed description of each manuscript the author acquired during this sojourn among the Jews of Persia. A discussion of the rituals of the Jewish people which the author met offers great insight into their liturgical life.
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