Jewish Traditions in Syriac Sources

Brock, Sebastian P.

doi:10.18647/916/jjs-1979

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“…In fact, Drawings 1 and 2 and Drawings 3 and 4 are associated with each three similar passages in folios 72v-73r and 75r-v (a part of the "Edessene Chronicle") and in f. 87v (of Part III). Chabot (Chronicon II: viii), Brock (1979) and H99 pointed out that Part III is very largely based on the chronicle of John of Ephesus.…”

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The earliest drawings of datable auroras and a two-tail comet from the Syriac Chronicle of Zūqnīn

Hayakawa¹,

Mitsuma²,

Fujiwara³

et al. 2017

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

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People have probably been watching the sky since the beginning of human history. Observers in pre-telescopic ages recorded anomalous events and these astronomical records in the historical documents provide uniquely valuable information for modern scientists. Records with drawings are particularly useful, as the verbal expressions recorded by pre-telescopic observers, who did not know the physical nature of the phenomena, are often ambiguous. However, drawings for specific datable events in the historical documents are much fewer than the verbal records. Therefore, in this paper, we show the possible earliest drawings of datable auroras and a two-tail comet in a manuscript of the Chronicle of Zūqnīn, a Syriac chronicle up to 775/776 CE to interpret their nature. They provide not only the historical facts in the realm around Amida but also information about low-latitude aurora observations due to extreme space weather events and the existence of sun-grazing comets.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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“…Although Assemani (1728) related the author of this chronicle with Dionysius of Tellmahre, this idea was denied by Nöldeke (1896). The only manuscript is preserved in the Vatican library under the reference code "Vatican Syriac 162" (Vat.Sir.162) (Brock 1976;Brock 1979;Harrak 1999).…”

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The earliest drawings of datable auroras and a two-tail comet from the Syriac Chronicle of Zūqnīn

Hayakawa¹,

Mitsuma²,

Fujiwara³

et al. 2017

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

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“…Several key articles appeared that even decades later would continue to serve as starting points for scholars. Following on the heels of Sebastian Brock's “Jewish Traditions in Syriac Sources” (), Isaiah Gafni published an article on “Nestorian Literature as a Source for the History of the Babylonian Yeshivot” (). Shaye Cohen produced his article, “Patriarchs and Scholarchs” (), which examined a lengthy passage from the Bavli in light of Hellenistic and Roman parallels.…”

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The Babylonian Talmud in its cultural context

Goldstone

2019

Religion Compass

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The Babylonian Talmud is a foundational work for the development of Jewish law and a centerpiece for the study of rabbinic literature. One of the fastest growing trends in the academic study of the Talmud is the contextualization of this text against the background of Greco–Roman, Sasaniageneration of Talmudic studiesn Persian, and Zoroastrian, as well as Syriac and Christian works. This article surveys the history of the study of the Babylonian Talmud in light of a variety of cultural contexts and provides a close look at some of the major products of this line of research.

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“…But it is also possible that Jewish exegetical motifs reached Kosmas through his East Syrian teachers and their books, especially their Bibles. [Brock 1979]. With this in mind, we may imagine that Kosmas' source was a set of hypomnemata, notes taken during the lessons, which he wrote while listening to Mar Aba's lectures [Cribiore 1996, p But the Apostle Paul says: "For they drank of that spiritual rock which followed them, and that rock was Christ" (1 Cor 10.4); by which he meant that, just as the water that flowed out from the rock which followed them gave them copious water to drink, so Christ, of whom the rock was a type, supplies to us life-giving waters, through the mysteries.…”

Section: Jewish and Syriac Exegetical Tradition In The Teaching Of Mamentioning

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New light on the sources of the illuminations of the Christian Topography of Kosmas Indikopleustes

Berti¹,

Cantone²

2017

Vestnik SPbSU. History

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Jewish Traditions in Syriac Sources

Cited by 140 publications

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The earliest drawings of datable auroras and a two-tail comet from the Syriac Chronicle of Zūqnīn

The earliest drawings of datable auroras and a two-tail comet from the Syriac Chronicle of Zūqnīn

The Babylonian Talmud in its cultural context

New light on the sources of the illuminations of the Christian Topography of Kosmas Indikopleustes

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