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An Unpublished Syriac Collection of the Old Testament Testimonia against the Jews from the Early Islamic Period

P. 20–73.
Minov S.

In this article, I am going to present and discuss a hitherto unpublished and unstudied specimen of the testimonia literature in Syriac, which constitutes the earliest preserved representative of the genre in this language. Entitled Collection of demonstrations from the holy scriptures of the Old (Testament) against the Jews and the rest of unbelievers, this work is attested in a single textual witness, manuscript London, British Library Add. 12154.

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Keywords: сирийское христианствоантииудейская полемикаSyriac christianityHebrew Bible/Old TestamentAnti-Jewish polemics
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From Antiquity to Modernity: epistemology and conceptualization of the development of the material and spiritual cultures of the East (2024)

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Florilegia Syriaca: Mapping a Knowledge-Organizing Practice in the Syriac World (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, texts and studies of early christian life and language, volume 179)
Leiden: Brill, 2023.
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