Syriology

English Etymology en :af Syrio- -logy 1 From en Syrio- -logy. Pronunciation en /sɪɹiˈɒlədʒi/ en ɒlədʒi 5 Noun - The study of ancient en Syria region (region). en 1885 Littel's Living Age 135 https://books.google.com/books?id=DDvWAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA135 The study of Phœnician archæology is yet another most important department of Syriology. en Q7663197 en Syriac studies. en Aramaeology en 1981 fr:Colloque international sur les textes de Nag Hammadi 245 https://books.google.com/books?id=LqKxedtCDUkC&pg=PA245 The Jewish Christian Source and Macarius: F.C. Burkitt, who laid the foundations of modern Syriology, already in his Eastern Christianity of 1899 argued that Syriac, Aramaic Christianity, centred in Mesopotamian Edessa, was based on Palestinian, Jewish Christian foundations. In our times, Arthur Vööbus, the greatest living Syriologis, has concluded from the agreements between the militant, ascetic Christianity of the Syrian “Sons of the Covenant” and the Dead Sea Scrolls that even the typically Syrian asceticism was due to an ascetic shade of Palestinian Christianity which was Essene in origin. en 1987 w:Arthur Vööbus Studies in the History of the Gospel Text in Syriac 28 https://books.google.com/books?id=2GwwAAAAYAAJ This vision of a large scale research program stimulated another hope, one which spurred me on in my endeavors. I envisaged the establishment of an institute of Syriac manuscript studies at the University of Tartu. That thought had been gestating in my mind all the while when I was engaged in other areas of Syriology. The study of contemporary en Syria Q858 (country). en 1971 Economic Development and Population Growth in the Middle East 331 https://books.google.com/books?id=8V2uAAAAIAAJ Syria is today a totalitarian state, and the possibilities of communicating with knowledgeable Syrians are severely circumscribed. [...] Syriology is now a science almost comparable to Kremlinology. I hope, nevertheless, to give in broad outline a correct impression of what the Syrian economy is and may become. Related terms en Syriological Syriologist Translations study of ancient Syria (region) French: fr syriologie f Italian: it siriologia f Syriac studies study of contemporary Syria (country) French: fr syriologie f Italian: it siriologia f en Syria Aramaic