Florilegia Syriaca: Mapping a Knowledge-Organizing Practice in the Syriac World

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Florilegia Syriaca: Mapping a Knowledge-Organizing Practice in the Syriac World is written by Emiliano Fiori and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004527559 (ISBN 10) and 9789004527553 (ISBN 13).

From the 6th century onwards, Syriac patristic florilegia – collections of Greek patristic excerpts in Syriac translation – progressively became a prominent form through which Syriac and Arab Christians shaped their knowledge of theology. In these collections, early Greek Christian literature underwent a substantial process of selection and re-organization. The papers collected in this volume study Syriac florilegia in their own right, as cultural products possessing their own specific textuality, and outline a phenomenology of Syriac patristic florilegia by mapping their diffusion and relevance in time and space, from the 6th to the 17th century, from the Roman Empire to China.