The Syriac Legal Documents of the 3rd Century CECross-file under Syriac Watch.Series: Supplement to Aramaic Studies, Volume: 20
Author: John Francis Healey
This book provides a re-edition and translation of the Syriac legal parchments of the mid 3rd century CE from Upper Mesopotamia, along with extensive commentary. These documents constitute our earliest significant evidence of the Syriac language and script, since only short epigraphs on stone and in mosaics survive otherwise. The texts are reproduced in Syriac script and in transliteration, while plates of the documents and script charts are also included, along with chapters devoted to script and language (in the context of the development of the later Classical Syriac forms) and to law (in the context of the adaptation of Aramaic law to Romanization).
Copyright Year: 2025
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ISBN: 978-90-04-73066-3
Publication: 25 Aug 2025
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ISBN: 978-90-04-73065-6
Publication: 28 Aug 2025
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It looks to me (and please correct me if I am wrong) as though these are (or include) texts from the unprovenanced collection that Roberta Mazza has called the Euphrates Papyri. However, the two Syriac documents are written on parchment. More on them, and a third, also third-century, parchment excavated at Dura-Europos, is here.
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