The Book of the Laws of Countries: Dialogue on Fate of Bardaiṣan of Edessa
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THE
BOOK
OF THE
LAWS
OF COUNTRIES
grew
we
“_LAREMONT HEOLOGY SCHOOL OF T
CA a aremont, Cl
SEMITIC
TEXTS
WITH
IONS
TRANSLAT
edited by DR.
S J. H. HOSPER
DR.
and
TH.
C. VRIEZEN,
Professors at Groningen and Utrecht Universities
I
DE
HABAKUK-ROL
VAN
“AIN
FASHA”
II RABBINICAL
DEVOTION
II! THE
BOOK
OF
THE
LAWS
OF
COUNTRIES
& 5 BAS “THE
BOOK
OF THE LAWS
OF COUNTRIES Dialogue on Fate of Bardaisan of Edessa
by
H. J. W. DRIJVERS
hp G 270, RAS c GeEC Oy,
ASSEN, VAN
GORCUM
&
COMP.
N.V.
-
MCMLXV DR.
H.J.PRAKKE
&
H.M.G.PRAKKE
© 1964 by Koninklijke Van Gorcum
& Comp. N.V., Assen, The Netherlands
All rights reserved, including the right to translate or to reproduce this book
or parts thereof in any form. The original Syriac text was translated into Dutch by H. J. W. Drijvers. The English version of this Dutch translation was made by Mrs. G. E. van Baaren-Pape.
Printed in the Netherlands by Royal VanGorcum Ltd., Assen
PREFACE
It is a pleasure, soon after the appearance of the second volume in the series “Semitic texts with translations”, to be able to introduce a third volume. While the two previous volumes offered post-biblical Hebrew texts, it seemed
desirable this time to present one of the earliest and finest products of Syriac literature to wider attention. We profit by the fortunate circumstance that the author of the present work, H.J.W. Drijvers, attached to the Department of Semitic languages of the State
University of Groningen, who hopes this year to defend a doctoral dissertation on Bardaisan at the above university, was willing to publish the results of the studies he devoted to the text and translation of the Ketaba denamisé datrawata in this series. To all, then, who take an interest in Semitic literature or in the history of the
early Eastern Church, this volume is most heartily recommended!
January 1965
J.H.HOSPERS
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