Larson, Stan (1984). The earliest Syriac commentary on the Apocalypse: transcription, translation and importance of Brit. Lib. Ms. Add. 17, 127. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.
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Brit. Lib. Ms. Add. 17,127 is an anonymous Syriac commentary on the Apocalypse written in the 9th century. It was transcribed in 1088 A.D. by Samuel bar Cyriacus, a monk in the monastery of St. Mary Theotokos, which is about 60 miles west of Cairo in the Nitrian desert.
The elaborate commentary was composed in Syriac by someone who knew only the Syriac language. It is divided into 72 chapters. The over-riding principle of exegesis is a thorough-going Christology, in which point by point the text of the Apocalypse is allegorically seen as having allusion to Christ. Several interpretations show the Monophysite bias of the author. The main scriptural text quoted is the Peshitta, which shows some intrusions in the OT from the Syro-hexapla and in the NT from the Old Syriac.
This manuscript contains the oldest extant witness of the Apocalypse in the Harclean Syriac version. It takes us back almost 500 years earlier than the commonly available printed texts, and usually aligns itself with the Harclean manuscript at Mardin recently published by A. Vööbus. The valuable Syriac text in this commentary is even more sharply brought into focus by the contrasting lack of value of the non-Harclean readings introduced by Gabriel Sionita into the Paris Polyglot in 1633.
| Type of Work: | Thesis (Doctorates > Ph.D.) |
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| Award Type: | Doctorates > Ph.D. |
| College/Faculty: | Faculties (to 1997) > Faculty of Arts |
| School or Department: | Department of Theology |
| Funders: | None/not applicable |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BS The Bible |
| URI: | http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/17704 |
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