The Syriac Legal Documents of the 3rd Century CE (Supplement to Aramaic Studies)

Healey, John Francis

Brill（2025/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 260 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004730656

Full Description

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).

Contents

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