Shaping East Syrian Law in ‘Abbāsid Iraq: The Law Books of Patriarchs Timothy I and Išō‘ Bar NūnLe 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/96WTKQ4X/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Lev E.WeitzShaping East Syrian Law in ‘Abbāsid Iraq: The Law Books of Patriarchs Timothy I and Išō‘ Bar Nūnhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/96WTKQ4Xhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/96WTKQ4Xhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/96WTKQ4XLe Muséon129:1-2201671-116The Syriac law books of the East Syrian patriarchs Timothy I (r. 780-823) and Išō' bar Nūn (r. 823-828), published by Eduard Sachau in 1908, are rich but underutilized sources for the intellectual and social history of the late antique and early Islamic Near East. This article offers a survey of these texts with a view to introducing them as promising source material to scholars outside the subfield of Eastern Christian legal studies. The article’s goal is to examine text-critical and structural matters, as well as the question of the law books’ sources, in order to arrive at an understanding of the texts’ nature as historical documents – in other words, an understanding of how and to what purpose they were composed. From this perspective, the article argues that both works are essentially redacted collections of individual rulings; in the unified form of law books, they were intended to represent an authoritative communal law for East Syrian Christians. In issuing these rulings the patriarchs drew from a range of earlier Syriac legal texts to address matters of ecclesiastical law, but to create a confessional civil law they adopted and adapted a variety of common Near Eastern legal institutions and practices.The Syriac law books of the East Syrian patriarchs Timothy I (r. 780-823) and Išō' bar Nūn (r. 823-828), published by Eduard Sachau in 1908, are rich but underutilized sources for the intellectual and social history of the late antique and early Islamic Near East. This article offers a survey of these texts with a view to introducing them as promising source material to scholars outside the subfield of Eastern Christian legal studies. The article’s goal is to examine text-critical and structural matters, as well as the question of the law books’ sources, in order to arrive at an understanding of the texts’ nature as historical documents – in other words, an understanding of how and to what purpose they were composed. From this perspective, the article argues that both works are essentially redacted collections of individual rulings; in the unified form of law books, they were intended to represent an authoritative communal law for East Syrian Christians. In issuing these rulings the patriarchs drew from a range of earlier Syriac legal texts to address matters of ecclesiastical law, but to create a confessional civil law they adopted and adapted a variety of common Near Eastern legal institutions and practices.
Weitz, Lev E. “Shaping East Syrian Law in ‘Abbāsid Iraq: The Law Books of Patriarchs Timothy I and Išō‘ Bar Nūn.” Le Muséon 129:1-2 (2016): 71–116.
Lev E. Weitz, Shaping East Syrian Law in ‘Abbāsid Iraq: The Law Books of Patriarchs Timothy I and Išō‘ Bar Nūn,Le Muséon 129:1-2 (2016): 71–116.IX CEIsho bar NunNestoriansTimothy IVII-XVIII CEcanon lawlawmarriage