The Syriac legal documents of the 3rd century CE : the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / by John F. Healey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Healey, John F., author.

Series:

Supplement to Aramaic studies, 2468-2810 ; volume 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Syria--History--18th century.

Law.

Law--Syria--History--19th century.

Ecclesiastical law--Syria--History--18th century.

Ecclesiastical law.

Ecclesiastical law--Syria--History--19th century.

Syriac language--Translating.

Syriac language.

Physical Description:

pages cm

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Summary:

"This book provides a re-edition and translation of the Syriac legal parchments of the mid 3rd century CE from Upper Mesopotamia, along with extensive commentary. These documents constitute our earliest significant evidence of the Syriac language and script, since only short epigraphs on stone and in mosaics survive otherwise. The texts are reproduced in Syriac script and in transliteration, while plates of the documents and script charts are also included, along with chapters devoted to script and language (in the context of the development of the later Classical Syriac forms) and to law (in the context of the adaptation of Aramaic law to Romanization)"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Debt-Transfer of 240ce (P. Euphr. 18)

The Lease of 242ce (P. Euphr. 19)

The Slave-Sale of 243ce (P. Dura 28)

Aramaic/Syriac in Greek Documents from the P. Euphr. and P. Dura Archives

The Scripts of the Documents

The Aramaic/Syriac of the Documents

The Legal Language of the Documents.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Healey, John Francis. Syriac legal documents of the 3rd century CE

ISBN:

9789004730656

9004730656

OCLC:

1528581412