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The Catalogue of Books of ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
Series: - Eastern Christian Texts, Volume: 2
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This volume presents the first modern annotated translation of ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha’s (d. 1318)
Catalogue of Books, the earliest history of Syriac literature. Along with an English translation, which is based on Yusuf Habbi’s 1986 edition, this volume annotates the numerous works listed in the
Catalogue by presenting the editions and translations of published works, the manuscripts and sources preserving unpublished works, and the works that do not survive. An extended introduction, an alphabetized listing of the numbered entries and writers, and the vocalized East Syriac text of the
Catalogue are also included.
Seth M. Stadel (D. Phil. 2022, University of Oxford) is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford. His publications include
The Heirs of Theodore: Aḥob of Qatar and the Development of the East Syriac Exegetical Tradition (Brill 2023).
All interested in the history of Syriac literature, and anyone concerned with the study of Christianity in the late antique and medieval Middle East