The Syriac Legal Documents of the 3rd Century CE

John Francis Healey (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

268 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-73065-6 (ISBN)

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This book provides an edition and annotated translation of the early Syriac legal parchments from Upper Mesopotamia, drawn up under Roman administration. These provide the first extensive evidence of Syriac language and script in everyday use.

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).

John F. Healey, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester, specialises on Middle Aramaic epigraphy (Nabataean, Palmyrene, Syriac). His publications include, with the late Professor Han Drijvers as co-author, The Old Syriac Inscriptions of Edessa and Osrhoene (Brill, 1999).

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

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

2 The Lease of 242 CE (P. Euphr. 19)

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

3.1 Excursus: P. Dura 152

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

4.1 P. Euphr. 1

4.2 P. Euphr. 3 and 4

4.3 P. Euphr. 6 and 7

4.4 P. Euphr. 9

4.5 P. Euphr. 10

4.6 P. Euphr. 12

4.7 P. Dura 27

5 The Scripts of the Documents

5.1 Excursus: Numerical Signs

6 The Aramaic/Syriac of the Documents

7 The Legal Language of the Documents

Concluding Remarks

The Texts in Syriac Script

Script Charts (Figures 1–40)

Plates

Bibliography

Index of Words

Index of Personal Names

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	Supplement to Aramaic Studies ; 20
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	571 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	90-04-73065-6 / 9004730656
ISBN-13	978-90-04-73065-6 / 9789004730656
Zustand	Neuware