: David Gregory Monaco
: The Sentences of the Syriac Menander Introduction, Text and Translation, and Commentary
: Gorgias Press
: 9781463234751
: Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
: 1
: CHF 115.40
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: Christentum
: English
: 268
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The Sentences of the Syriac Menander appears in two Syriac manuscripts in the British Library, a full version in one codex, and a far shorter version, only a small fraction thereof, in another. This book presents a commentary on the text in its complete version focusing on parallels from both Jewish tradition and the Greco-Roman world, showing that the text is not, as it claims, the work of the Greek author Menander, but rather a work of Jewish Wisdom Literature composed in Syriac, possibly in the ancient city of Edessa itself, and preserved within Christian monastic circles.