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Syriac literature

Not to be confused with Syrian literature.
Page from a Syriac translation of Abba Isaiah's Asceticon,[1] from a 6th-century manuscript in Estrangela script, from the Monastery of St Catherine, Mt Sinai (Schøyen Collection MS 574)

Syriac literature is literature in the Syriac language. It is a tradition going back to the Late Antiquity. It is strongly associated with Syriac Christianity.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ This manuscript was previously misidentified as a translation of John Chrysostom's Homilies on the Gospel of John. It has subsequently been identified as missing pages from a Syriac witness to the Asceticon. See J. Edward Walters, "Schøyen MS 574: Missing Pages From a Syriac Witness of the Asceticon of Abba Isaiah of Scete," Le Muséon 124 (1-2), 2011: 1-10.
  2. ^ Wright 1894.
  3. ^ Baumstark 1922.
  4. ^ Brock 1997.

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