A Trilingual Pharmaceutical Lexical List: Greek – Aramaic

A Trilingual Pharmaceutical Lexical List: Greek – Aramaic – Middle PersianLe MuséonSyriaca.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/6SPSYG3N/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.ChristaMüller-KesslerA Trilingual Pharmaceutical Lexical List: Greek – Aramaic – Middle Persianhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/6SPSYG3Nhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/6SPSYG3Nhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/6SPSYG3NLe Muséon130:1-2201731-69This trilingual plant list in Greek, Aramaic, and Middle Persian (Pahlavi) is a late copy in the Aramaic square script from the Cairo Genizah of the ninth or tenth centuries with randomly applied Palestinian vocalisation (T-S K14.22). It is the second example of a trilingual lexical list, containing plant names after Barhebraeus’ plant list in the Menārath Kudhshē. The origin of the Vorlage speaks for Jundishapur as its place of completion, and Syriac used for the Aramaic glosses, since this fragment shows a number of Syriac calques, especially particles, which came in through the translation from one Aramaic dialect into another. This unique text source demonstrates again how closely interlinked Greek, Aramaic, and Middle Iranian were in Late Antiquity, despite the loss of most of the text material from this famous academy of medical studies. What this list makes also so valuable is the application of the grades of the plants’ effect that go back to Galen, as can be found in the remnant Syriac manuscript Mingana Syr. 661. Müller-Kessler, Christa. “A Trilingual Pharmaceutical Lexical List: Greek – Aramaic – Middle Persian.” Le Muséon 130:1-2 (2017): 31–69. Christa Müller-Kessler, A Trilingual Pharmaceutical Lexical List: Greek – Aramaic – Middle Persian, Le Muséon 130:1-2 (2017): 31–69.Cairo GenizahJewish-Christian relationsSyriac influence [Judaism]VII-XVIII CEmedicineplantsscience