Men of Letters in the Syriac Scribal Tradition: Dawid bar Pawlos, Rabban Rāmišo‘, and the Family of Beṯ Rabban

Men of Letters in the Syriac Scribal Tradition: Dawid bar Pawlos, Rabban Rāmišo‘, and the Family of Beṯ RabbanHugoye: Journal of Syriac 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/Z7T53LTE/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.NickPosegayMen of Letters in the Syriac Scribal Tradition: Dawid bar Pawlos, Rabban Rāmišo‘, and the Family of Beṯ Rabbanhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/Z7T53LTEhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/Z7T53LTEhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/Z7T53LTEHugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies24:12021127-186Dawid bar Pawlos’ Letter on Dots is an eighth-century text that purportedly describes the introduction of some of the dots used in Syriac writing. It also sheds light on the life of a certain Rāmišoʿ of Beṯ Rabban, apparently the same man as the master of pointing named in MS BL Add. 12138. However, most studies of Syriac dots either neglect or completely discount this letter as a reliable source, since it suggests that Miaphysite scribes had a direct influence on East Syriac reading traditions. This article provides a more critical analysis of the letter, first examining the problematic state of its extant manuscripts, and then evaluating the text to determine its historical plausibility in the context of seventh-century northern Mesopotamia. Posegay, Nick. “Men of Letters in the Syriac Scribal Tradition: Dawid Bar Pawlos, Rabban Rāmišo‘, and the Family of Beṯ Rabban.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 24:1 (2021): 127–86. Nick Posegay, Men of Letters in the Syriac Scribal Tradition: Dawid Bar Pawlos, Rabban Rāmišo‘, and the Family of Beṯ Rabban, Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 24:1 (2021): 127–86.Classical SyriacDavid bar PaulosJacobitesRamisho the InterpreterSyriac languageVII CEVII-XVIII CEVIII CEdiacriticsgrammargrammar [native]