Comparing the Terminology of the Major Syriac and Arabic Translations of the Hippocratic <i>Aphorisms</i> ISemitica et ClassicaSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/HBWLIUIH/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Samuel ChewBarryComparing the Terminology of the Major Syriac and Arabic Translations of the Hippocratic <i>Aphorisms</i> Ihttp://syriaca.org/cbss/HBWLIUIHhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/HBWLIUIHhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/HBWLIUIHSemitica et Classica102017103-110This paper is the first in a series that compares in detail the technical vocabulary of the major extant Syriac and Arabic translations of the Hippocratic Aphorisms. It is well known that the famous translator of Galenic medicine into Arabic, Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq, also translated extensively from Greek into Syriac. Although a good deal of secondary information about these works has long been available, few if any of Ḥunayn’s Greek-to-Syriac translations have survived to the present. The extant ʿAbbāsid-era translations of the Aphorisms, two in Arabic and one in Syriac, are thus valuable resources for understanding the importance of Syriac sources and precedents both for Ḥunayn’s Arabic translation praxis and for Arabic medicine more broadly considered. Drawing upon both the classical Syriac lexicographical tradition and contemporary philological scholarship, I investigate the relationships amongst the terminologies of these translations. In doing so I add important examples to the body of evidence for substantial Syriac influence upon Ḥunayn’s Arabic medical lexicon.
Barry, Samuel Chew. “Comparing the Terminology of the Major Syriac and Arabic Translations of the Hippocratic Aphorisms I.” Semitica et Classica 10 (2017): 103–10.
Samuel Chew Barry, Comparing the Terminology of the Major Syriac and Arabic Translations of the Hippocratic Aphorisms I,” Semitica et Classica 10 (2017): 103–10.Arab ChristiansGreek philosophyHippocratesHunayn ibn IshaqIX CENestoriansVII-XVIII CEmedicinetranslationtranslations from Greektranslations into Arabictranslations into Syriac