Florilegia Syriaca: Mapping a Knowledge-Organizing Practice in the Syriac World
Author | : Emiliano Fiori |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2023-02-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004527559 |
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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.