The Beginnings of the Graeco-Syro-Arabic Melkite Translation Movement in Antioch

The Beginnings of the Graeco-Syro-Arabic Melkite Translation Movement in AntiochScriniumSyriaca.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/BR2IA783/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.AlexanderTreigerThe Beginnings of the Graeco-Syro-Arabic Melkite Translation Movement in Antiochhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/BR2IA783https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/BR2IA783https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/BR2IA783Scrinium162020306-332The present article surveys the early stages of the Graeco-Syro-Arabic Melkite translation movement in Antioch, from the first known translation (the Graeco-Syriac version of the Life of St. Symeon the Stylite the Younger, BHG 1689) dating to 827/8 AD to the Antiochene translators Ibrāhīm the protospatharios, Gregory of Dafnūnā, Chariton of Aršāyā, and Yūḥannā ʿAbd al-Masīḥ (the compiler of the Antiochene Menologion), all of them disciples of the martyred patriarch of Antioch Christopher (d.967). It provides new evidence on each of these translators. Significantly, it re-dates Yūḥannā ʿAbd al-Masīḥ to the early eleventh century. Treiger, Alexander. “The Beginnings of the Graeco-Syro-Arabic Melkite Translation Movement in Antioch.” Scrinium 16 (2020): 306–32. Alexander Treiger, The Beginnings of the Graeco-Syro-Arabic Melkite Translation Movement in Antioch, Scrinium 16 (2020): 306–32.AntiochArab ChristiansIX CEMelkitesSimeon Stylites the YoungerVII-XVIII CEX CEhagiographytranslations from Greektranslations from Syriactranslations into Arabictranslations into Syriac