Buch, Englisch, Band 222, 179 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 318 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 222, 179 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 318 g
Reihe: Corpus Scriptorum Christianoru
ISBN: 978-90-6831-704-6
Verlag: PEETERS PUB
The Syriac version of the Hexaemeron by St. Basil of Caesarea survives in
Ms no. 9 of the Syriac collection in the Monastery of St. Catherine on
Mount Sinai (written before 734 AD), and in fragments, of which the
earliest dates from the fifthe century. It predates the surviving Greek
manuscripts by four centuries. It is not a literal translation, but
expands the text in a discursive manner - as is not uncommon in Syriac.
The Armenian version was made from this Syriac text by the seventh
century. The Syriac version of the Hexaemeron is thus valuable as a
witness to the original, as a text of importance for Syriac literature,
and as the intermediary for the wide diffusion of the Hexaemeron in
Armenia.
