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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.John W.WattAristotelian Rhetoric in Syriac: Barhebraeus, <i>Butyrum Sapientiae</i>, Book of Rhetorichttp://syriaca.org/cbss/MWRJZ5Y8https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/MWRJZ5Y8https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/MWRJZ5Y8LeidenBrill2005Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus 18with assistance of Daniel Isaac, Julian Faultless and Ayman Shihadeh;
This volume contains the Syriac text, edited for the first time, of the commentary on Aristotle’s <i>Rhetoric </i>by Bar Hebraeus (died 1286) in his <i>Cream of Wisdom</i>. The text is accompanied by an English translation, and the volume also includes an introduction, commentary, and three glossaries (Syriac, Greek and Arabic).
Bar Hebraeus’ commentary is based on the lost Syriac version of Aristotle’s treatise, but the author also drew heavily on the commentary of Ibn Sina (Avicenna). The text therefore provides a unique insight into the nature of that lost version, and also exemplifies the way Bar Hebraeus blended the Aristotle of the Graeco-Syriac translation literature with the more recent philosophy of Ibn Sina.
Watt, John W. Aristotelian Rhetoric in Syriac: Barhebraeus, Butyrum Sapientiae, Book of Rhetoric. Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus 18. Leiden: Brill, 2005.
John W. Watt, Aristotelian Rhetoric in Syriac: Barhebraeus, Butyrum Sapientiae, Book of Rhetoric, Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus 18 (Leiden: Brill, 2005).AristotleBarhebraeusGreek philosophyIbn SinaJacobitesMuslim-Christian relationsVII-XVIII CEXIII CEprimary sources [Syriac] + English translationrhetorictranslations from Greektranslations into Syriac