Pulling a Yoke through the White Field: East Syriac Poetic Paraphrases of Scribal RhetoricAramaic StudiesSyriaca.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/ISKQ45ER/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.AntonPritulaPulling a Yoke through the White Field: East Syriac Poetic Paraphrases of Scribal Rhetorichttp://syriaca.org/cbss/ISKQ45ERhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/ISKQ45ERhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/ISKQ45ERAramaic Studies19:22021215-224As shown in recent studies, East Syriac colophons were rather standardised, at least in the Ottoman period, and they incorporated into the main colophon body not only prose passages, but also poetic ones. The current article discusses one such passage that occurs in both prose and poetic forms in various manuscripts, namely the topos of ‘the five twins that pulled a yoke from the forest through the white field’. It provides a fascinating example of the trope’s transmission over the centuries, as well as the poetic creativity of East Syriac scribes as manifested in the Ottoman period.
Pritula, Anton. “Pulling a Yoke through the White Field: East Syriac Poetic Paraphrases of Scribal Rhetoric.” Aramaic Studies 19:2 (2021): 215–24.
Anton Pritula, Pulling a Yoke through the White Field: East Syriac Poetic Paraphrases of Scribal Rhetoric,Aramaic Studies 19:2 (2021): 215–24.Abdisho of GazartaNestoriansVII-XVIII CEXVI CEcolophonspoetryriddlesscribes