Florilegia Syriaca: Mapping a Knowledge-Organizing Practice in the Syriac World (Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, 179)

Book info: Florilegia Syriaca: Mapping a Knowledge-Organizing Practice in the Syriac World (Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, 179) (Hardcover, 400 pages) – Brill, 2023. Language: English.

From the 6th century onwards, Syriac patristic florilegia – collections of Greek patristic excerpts in Syriac translation – progressively became a prominent form through which Syriac and Arab Christians shaped their knowledge of theology. In these collections, early Greek Christian literature underwent a substantial process of selection and re-organization. The papers collected in this volume study Syriac florilegia in their own right, as cultural products possessing their own specific textuality, and outline a phenomenology of Syriac patristic florilegia by mapping their diffusion and relevance in time and space, from the 6th to the 17th century, from the Roman Empire to China. Editorial Reviews About the Author Emiliano Fiori, PhD (2010), University of Bologna - École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, is Associate Professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the Principal Investigator of the ERC Project “FLOS. Florilegia Syriaca”. He is the author of many publications on phenomena of knowledge transfer from Greek to Syriac, especially of the edition Dionigi Areopagita. Nomi divini, Teologia Mistica, Epistole. La versione siriaca di Sergio di Resh‘ayna (VI secolo), Louvain 2014.

Bishara Ebeid, PhD (2014 and 2019), Pontificio Istituto Orientale and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, is Assistant Professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He has published extensively on Syriac and Christian Arabic authors, including the monograph La tunica di Al-Masīḥ. La Cristologia della grandi confessioni cristiane dell’Oriente nel X e XI secolo, Roma 2018.