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The Treatise of Dionysius bar Salibi Against the Jews

Syriac Studies Library

23

Sériés Editors Monica Blanchard Cari Griffïn Kristian Heal George Anton Kiraz David G.K. Taylor

The Syriac Studies Library brings back to active circulation major reference works in the field of Syriac studies, including dictionaries, grammars, text editions, manuscript catalogues, and monographs. The books were reproduced from originals at The Catholic University of America, one of the largest collections of Eastern Christianity in North America. The project is a collaboration between CUA, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, and Brigham Young University.

The Treatise of Dionysius bar Salibi Against the Jews

Edited by

J de Zwaan

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2010

gorgias press

Gorgias Press LLC, 954 River Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA www.gorgiaspress.com Copyright © 2010 by Gorgias Press LLC Originally published in 1906 All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise without the prior written permission of Gorgias Press LLC. 2010

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1 ISBN 978-1-60724-828-6

Reprinted from the 1906 Leiden edition.

Digitized by Brigham Young University. Printed in the United States of America.

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T R E A T I S E

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DIONYSIUS BAR SALIBHI .«I

A G A I N S T TI LE JEWS.

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THE f R E A T I S E OF

DIONYSIUS BAR SALIBHI AGAINST THE JEWS.

PART.

I.

THE SYRIAC TEXT EDITED FROM

A MESOPOTAMIAN MS. (Cod, Syr. H A R R I S . 83)

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J. D E

E. J.

ZWAAN.

BRILL

PUBLISHERS AND PRINTERS L E I D E N 1906.

P R E F A C E. This volume containing only the Syriac text of Bar Salibhi's treatise against the Jews, will soon be followed by another in which an English translation with full notes, indices etc. will be presented. Dr. J. RENDEL HARRIS will add to this an Introduction dealing mainly with the Book of Testimonies '). It is with a view to the study of this subject that this text has been thought worth publishing. As a more formal and full preface will accompany the second volume I hope to acknowledge there the debt of gratitude I owe to those friends whose generous help and assistance made this first venture in Syriac possible for me. Some technicalities, however, must be mentioned here. I. P u n c t u a t i o n . Entire and faithful reproduction of the punctuation of the MS. was not advisable as it tended rather to obscure the sense b y its desperate condition. T h e system adopted is this: (.) = ( * ) , (,) (1) -

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Perfect; rCv« stands for seeing,

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VI N . L X I X (Sept. 1905) pp. 1 6 1 — 1 7 1 .

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