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It is understood that as a boy he had also taught himself, or tried to learn, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Chaldean and Chinese.
Many European languages, but also Oriental languages are represented, such as Arabic, Persian, Syriac, Hebrew and even Chinese.
Repetitive and riddling, his hypnotic writings were extremely popular in the Syriac Church.
Manuscripts in Greek and manuscripts of translations from the Greek into Latin, Syriac, and Coptic are extant.
Modem expositors simply cannot control the information from the Aramaic Targums, Syriac Peshitta, or Latin Vulgate, to name the most important.
As for versional evidence, there used to be, about 70 years ago, the dispute as to whether the Syriac Peshitta was Byzantine or not.
There are 220 volumes in the section in Latin, Syriac and Greek and it is one of the largest such collections in Asia.
Galen's views about the four humours and the importance of food for health were translated into Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, and finally Latin.
To a large extent these had been pushed into obscurity, but such languages as Coptic and Syriac can already be found in the later empire.
The later Theophany, extant in Syriac translation, and his last works repeat many of the same apologetic themes.
Syriac eventually gave way vernacularly and, to some extent, liturgically, to Arabic.
It was said that Lancelot Andrewes knew Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, and 15 modern languages.
He became skilled in languages as a young man, in particular learning Arabic at Basra and also learning Syriac.
He also steeped himself in the biblical languages of Greek and Hebrew, and even found time to master Aramaic and Syriac.
The work survives as a pastiche taken from various manuscripts in Arabic, Coptic, Latin, Syriac, Sahidic, Bohairic, Ethiopian, and Greek.
He was unique in England in his deep knowledge of contemporary German theology and was also a prodigious scholar of Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew.
The Armenian population speaks mostly Armenian or Turkish, while Assyrians speak Syriac.
To be ordained a priest in the Church, a person had to be able to read Syriac and learn the Syriac liturgy by heart.
Aristotle's Rhetoric has been read by some ancient speakers of Greek, Syriac, and Arabic as the completion of his logic in a contingent, probabilistic direction.
Alexander often gave answers in Syriac or Celtic to barbarians who questioned him in their own tongue, though he had difficulty in finding compatriots of theirs in the city.
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I swang the censer and drank deep of the incense fumes as I chanted in Syriac the service.
Hieroglyphs and one Syriac word in the original book are represented as inline images in the text.
But there is not yet the same degree of consensus as to the relations between the Old Syriac and the diatessaron.
Bochart says the island is said to have been named Rhodus from Rhad, a Syriac word for a serpent.
The Syriac text, made without doubt from the Hebrew, though often paraphrastic is often suggestive.
The text is based on an emendation of Graetz, following the Syriac.
He next proceeded to learn the chaldee, Syriac, and Samaritan dialects.
Later studies by European experts on Syriac language showed that it is one of the most credible and ancient Bibles in the world.
Bishop Yazigi was picked up by the Syriac bishop and his driver, who had gone to Bab al-Hawa to take him from the border to return to Aleppo.
For instance, Ptolemy's Almagest was first translated to Syriac and then to Arabic.
Also, what Syriac Lexicon stands highest for value and accuracy?
The Syriac or Curetonian recension contains only three Epistles, viz.
In addition to these Miss Tuffin, who is daughter of the late Reverend Thomas Tuffin, can instruct in the Syriac language, and the elements of Constitutional law.
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