Sentence examples for syriac from inspiring English sources

In Bethlehem, tanks have levelled to dust the refurbished old market; a Syriac Orthodox church was bombed; hermitic caves dynamited.

The manuscript collection includes the Codex Syriacus, a Syriac text of the Gospels written about 400.

Suppose then that the Arabic Plotinus is based directly on the Greek of the Enneads, and not a Syriac version or a Greek paraphrase by Porphyry or anyone else.

In particular on the Syriac versions of Porphyry's Isagoge, see Brock (1993) and Hugonnard-Roche (2012).

The Theology is split into ten sections (each called a mimar, a Syriac word for 'chapter').

First, there were Syriac translations of other Aristotelian logical texts available throughout this period (e.g., the Posterior Analytics; Elamrani-Jamal and Hugonnard-Roche 1989), so there were scholars about who had a good idea of what later texts in the Organon had to offer.

In the case of Aristotle, they used Arabic translations of Aristotle's Greek, sometimes with an earlier Syriac link in between.

On the Syriac versions of the Isagoge, as well as on its circulation in Kindi's times, see above, note 15; for a survey on the Arabic Porphyry, one may see D'Ancona (2011c); much more detailed is the all-embracing entry by Hugonnard-Roche (2012); on the Isagoge, both Syriac and Arabic, 1450 60.

Among waves of Christian refugees who later settled on the Malabar Coast was a community of 400 Syriac-speaking Jewish-Christian families from Uruhu, near Babylon.

The town also has Sunni Muslims, Syriac-speaking Christians, and a Jewish community.

He is considered a saint in the Syriac Orthodox Church and is commemorated on June 5.