Gorgias Press

Ein arabisches Poententiale bei den Kopten

Translation and Introduction by Georg Graf

ISBN: 978-1-60724-951-1

Georg Graf publishes a German translation, accompanied by translation notes, of an Arabic poenitentiale text that is a collection of previous material. Graf also provides an introduction to the text in which he discusses source materials and their relationship.

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105 Zitierte Psalmenübersetzung

By Anton Baumstark

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 480

ISBN: 978-1-60724-948-1

The Syriac tradition played an important role in shaping pre- and early Islamic concepts of Christianity. In this article, Anton Baumstark argues that a few Arabic citations of the Bible reflect reliance on Old Syriac translations rather than the Peshitta.

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Narsai le docteur et les origines de l'école de Nisibe, d'après la chronique de Barḥadbešabba

Translated and Annotated by J.-B. Chabot

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 490

ISBN: 978-1-60724-968-9

This volume contains Chabot’s notice of a fragment published by Mingana from Barhadbeshabba dealing with Narsai and the School of Nisibis. Chabot offers a French translation of the text and a summary questioning its historical value.

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Omelia di San Giacomo di Sarugh in Lode di San Simone Stilita

Translated by Italo Pizzi

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 498

ISBN: 978-1-60724-976-4

This volume contains an Italian translation of Jacob of Sarug’s eulogy of Simon the Stylite.

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Ein frühchristliches Theotokion in mehrsprachiger Überlieferung und verwandte Texte des ambrosianisc

By Anton Baumstark

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 449

ISBN: 978-1-60724-883-5

Anton Baumstark compares the Greek text of a Theotokion preserved in a sixth-century manuscript to comparable texts from the Oriental Christian traditions and the Western Ambrosian Rite.

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Zwei nestorianische Hymnen über die Magier

Edited and Translated by Adolf Rücker

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 453

ISBN: 978-1-60724-887-3

Adolf Rücker publishes here the Syriac text and German translation of two poems about the Magi from the “Nestorian” Syriac tradition and discusses the unique features of the Magi narrative present in the Syriac sources.

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Die Anaphora des hl. Jakobus, des Bruders der Herrn

Nach dem Ms. aeth. 74 der Bibliothèque zu Paris

Edited and Translated by Sebastian Euringer

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 441

ISBN: 978-1-60724-778-4

Sebastian Euringer publishes here the Ethiopic text and German translation of an anaphora attributed to James, the brother of Jesus.

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Die Manichäische Zarathustra-Hymne M7

Edited with an Introduction by Isidor Scheftelowitz

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 470

ISBN: 978-1-60724-925-2

In the present article, Isidor Scheftelowitz challenges the conclusions of Richard Reitzenstein that a Manichaean hymn fragment contained influences from the old Iranian religious system by offering a new translation and texts for comparison.

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Ostsyrische Tisch- und Abendmahlsgebete

Edited and Translated by P. Maternus Wolff

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 466

ISBN: 978-1-60724-919-1

P. Maternus Wolff publishes here the text and German translation of twenty Eucharistic prayers from the Syraic tradition. Wolff also includes an apparatus containing critical notes and an introduction in which he discusses several unique features of these prayers.

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Des Isho'dad von Maru Kommentar zum Hohenlied

Edited and Translated by Sebastian Euringer

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 476

ISBN: 978-1-60724-944-3

Sebastian Euringer publishes here the Syriac text of Isho’dad of Merv’s commentary on the Song of Songs accompanied by an introduction, a German translation of the commentary, notes on the translation, and parallels from other commentaries.

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Die äthiopische Überlieferung der Abhandlung des Evagrius "Über die acht Gedanken"

Edited with an Introduction by Otto Spies

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 478

ISBN: 978-1-60724-946-7

Otto Spies publishes here a critical apparatus with variant readings to supplement Johannes Bachmann’s edition of the Ethiopic version of the work “concerning the eight [sinful] thoughts” by Evagrius of Pontus. Spies provides a German translation of the collated text.

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Ein nestorianisches Bruchstück zur Kirchengeschichte des 4 und 5 Jahrhunderts

Edited with an Introduction by Emil Goeller

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 418

ISBN: 978-1-60724-709-8

Emil Goeller introduces and provides the text of a unique resource for the ecclesiastical history of the “Nestorian” church. The text, presented in Syriac with a Latin translation, is a compilation of historical sources focused on the story of Nestorius.

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Frühchristlich-syrische Psalterillustration in einer byzantinischen Abkürzung

By Anton Baumstark

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 420

ISBN: 978-1-60724-711-1

Anton Baumstark describes thirty Psalter illustrations that he found in a manuscript belonging to the Greek Patriarch of Jerusalem. These illustrations significantly increase our knowledge of Psalter illustrations in the Syriac tradition.

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Eine syrische "traditio legis" und ihre Parallelen

By Anton Baumstark

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 414

ISBN: 978-1-60724-691-6

Early Christian artistic renderings of the traditio legis, exhibit a variety of commonalities and differences. Anton Baumstark compares various versions of the scene and finds evidence of both a Western and an Eastern version represented in multiple sources.

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"Ligurgia S. Gregorii Magni," eine griechische Uebersetzung der römischen Messe

Edited with an Introduction by Anton Baumstark

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 415

ISBN: 978-1-60724-692-3

Anton Baumstark presents the complete Greek text of the Liturgy of Saint Gregory the Great. The liturgy was highly influential in the Latin tradition, but as evidenced by the early translation, it also had limited circulation in the Greek tradition.

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Ein byzantinischer Buchschmuck des Praxapostolos und seine syro-palästinensische Vorlage

By Anton Baumstark

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 427

ISBN: 978-1-60724-733-3

Illustrations were common in manuscripts of the Gospels, but far less common for the Acts and Epistles. Anton Baumstark describes the images found in one manuscript that does include illustrations for these documents and compares them with the Eastern tradition.

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Zwei Synoden des Katholikos Timotheos I

Edited with an Introduction by Oskar Braun

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 404

ISBN: 978-1-60724-678-7

The records of two provincial synods found among the writings of Catholicos Timothy I provide a unique perspective into the christological disputes and struggle for authority in Syriac-speaking Christianity in the late 8th century.

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The Classical Origin and Tradition of Literary Conceits

By M. B. Ogle

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 367

ISBN: 978-1-60724-654-1

Prof. Ogle traces the Classical roots of descriptions of feminine beauty in poetry of the English renaissance.

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New Greek Inscriptions from Attica, Achaia, Lydia

By David Robinson

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 360

ISBN: 978-1-60724-647-3

Prof. Robinson presents a series of inscriptions found in Greece, including transcription and commentary on each.

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Studies in the Financial Administration of Athens

By Allan Chester Johnson

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 372

ISBN: 978-1-60724-659-6

Allan Johnson, a famous scholar of ancient civic administration, traces the development of Athenian financial administration in the Hellenistic era.

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Fatalism of the Greeks

By Abby Leech

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 373

ISBN: 978-1-60724-660-2

Leech argues against a simplistic view of the Greeks as radical fatalists, underlining their view of the equally prevalent Greek ideas of individual freedom and self-determination.

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On Instability in the Use of Moods in Earliest Sanskrit

By Maurice Bloomfield

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 398

ISBN: 978-1-60724-663-3

Bloomfield lists and discusses instances of vague and ambiguous mood usages in early Sanskrit syntax.

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Linguistic Notes on the Shahbazgarhi and Mansehra Redactions of Asoka's Fourteen-Edicts

By Truman Michelson

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 395

ISBN: 978-1-60724-644-2

Truman Michelson explores the spelling variants among copies of the Edicts of Ashoka, a legal document in Sanskrit.

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Transposition Variants in Cicero's Verrines

By William Peterson

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 392

ISBN: 978-1-60724-641-1

Sir Peterson's analysis of the manuscript tradition for the Verrine orations, with particular attention given towards removing word-order errors made by copyists.

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The Moods of Indirect Quotation

By John Jacob Schlicher

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 386

ISBN: 978-1-60724-635-0

A discussion of the psycology behind tense and mood choice in Latin indirect speech.

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