Gutman / Peursen The Two Syriac Versions of the Prayer of Manasseh

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4632-1687-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 279 Seiten

Reihe: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies

The authors present a detailed philological and linguistic comparison of two versions of The Prayer of Manasseh. Combing state-of-the-art computational tools together with traditional philology, the texts are compared at all linguistic levels, from their vocabulary up to their discursive structure, with a special emphasis on their morphology and syntax. The results are revealing not only for the question of the relationship between the two versions, but they also illuminate various debates pertaining to Syriac syntax.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gutman, Ariel

Peursen, Wido van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Dedication (page 5)
- Table of Contents (page 7)
- List of Tables (page 11)
- List of Illustrations (page 13)
- List of Figures (page 15)
- List of Glosses (page 17)
- Preface (page 19)
- Chapter 1: Manasseh's Prayer and its place in the Syriac tradition (page 23)
- 1.1 King Manasseh and his prayer (page 23)
- 1.2 PrMan in the Didascalia (page 24)
- 1.3 Other Greek and Latin witnesses to PrMan (page 28)
- 1.4 The Hebrew version of PrMan (page 29)
- 1.5 The Syriac textual witnesses (page 31)
- 1.6 Two Syriac versions (Version A and B) (page 42)
- 1.7 The superscription in version B (page 43)
- 1.8 Byzantine manuscript illustrations (page 53)
- The Milieu in which PrMan originated (page 59)
- 1.10 PrMan in its Syriac contest (page 66)
- Chapter 2: Grammatical Comparison (page 93)
- 2.1 Introduction to the Comparative analysis (page 93)
- 2.2 Methodology (page 98)
- 2.3 Morphology and orthography (page 101)
- 2.4 Phrase syntax (page 104)
- 2.5 Clause syntax (page 117)
- Chapter 3: Lexical Analysis (page 159)
- 3.1 Case Study: Metanoia Terminology (page 159)
- 3.2 Lexical Correspondences (page 165)
- 3.3 Vocabulary counts (page 172)
- Chapter 4: Discourse Arrangement (page 181)
- 4.1 Method of the text hierarchical analysis (page 181)
- 4.2 General outline of the structure of PrMan (page 182)
- 4.3 Section 1 (page 183)
- 4.4 The boundary between sections 2 and 3 (page 185)
- 4.5 The boundary between sections 3 and 4 (page 186)
- 4.6 the alignment of verses 9-10 (page 190)
- 4.7 Section 5 (page 196)
- Chapter 5: Variant Readings (page 199)
- 5.1 Cross-similarities of manuscripts (page 200)
- 5.2 Other variants (page 204)
- Chapter 6: Conclusions (page 209)
- 6.1 Methodology of the comparative analysis (page 209)
- 6.2 Character of the differences (page 214)
- 6.3 The two versions of the prayer of Manasseh (page 216)
- A Text and Translation of the Two Versions (page 225)
- B Transcription and Glossing of the Two Versions (page 233)
- Index of Vreses (page 245)
- Index of Authors (page 247)
- Bibliography (page 253)