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Syr·i·ac

(sîr′ē-ăk′)

1. An Aramaic language of ancient and medieval Syria and adjacent regions that was used to write a large body of literature from the 3rd to the 13th century and is still used today as the liturgical language of several Eastern Christian churches.

2. Any of several modern Aramaic languages spoken by Eastern Christian communities of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran and by immigrants from these communities elsewhere.

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Syriac

(ˈsɪrɪˌæk)

(Languages) a dialect of Aramaic spoken in Syria until about the 13th century ad and still in use as a liturgical language of certain Eastern churches

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Syr•i•ac

(ˈsɪər iˌæk)

n.

a form of Aramaic based on the speech of Edessa in the 1st to 3rd centuries a.d., used historically in the liturgy and literature of a number of Christian confessions of the Near East.

[1611; < Latin Syriacus < Greek Syriakós. See Syria, -ac]

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Syrisch

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In addition to these Miss Tuffin, who is daughter of the late Reverend Thomas Tuffin (Fellow of Corpus College, Cambridge), can instruct in the Syriac language, and the elements of Constitutional law.

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(26.) E.g., Jan Joosten, The Syriac Language of the Peshitta and Old Syriac Versions of Matthew: Syntactic Structure, Inner-Syriac Development and Translation Technique (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 22; Leiden: Brill, 1996), 107.

The Personal Pronoun in Christian Palestinian Aramaic

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Tabriz Library is home to one of the world's most ancient Bibles

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Mar Aphrem Syriac Center in the US deepens ties ofexpatriates with their homeland

For Tesio and others the Syriac language was related closely enough to Hebrew to shed important light on the esoteric intricacies of the Jewish texts.

Orientalism, Aramaic and Kabbalah in the Catholic Reformation: The First Printing of the Syriac New Testament

The bible seized earlier in the week, which is written in the Syriac language was said to be 2,000 years old and worth around e1/42 million.

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Saint Thomas Aquinas points out, in his Commentary on the Angelic Salutation, that the name 'Mary' in the Syriac language means 'Lady'.

Praying the Rosary

The work was the first translation of evangelical material into the Syriac language, was used and commented upon by the earliest writers in that language, and left its traces in all the Eastern churches stemming from Syriac Christianity.

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