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

Emiliano Fiori, PhD (2010), University of Bologna - École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, is Associate Professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the Principal Investigator of the ERC Project “FLOS. Florilegia Syriaca”. He is the author of many publications on phenomena of knowledge transfer from Greek to Syriac, especially of the edition Dionigi Areopagita. Nomi divini, Teologia Mistica, Epistole. La versione siriaca di Sergio di Resh‘ayna (VI secolo), Louvain 2014. Bishara Ebeid, PhD (2014 and 2019), Pontificio Istituto Orientale and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, is Assistant Professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He has published extensively on Syriac and Christian Arabic authors, including the monograph La tunica di Al-Masīḥ. La Cristologia della grandi confessioni cristiane dell’Oriente nel X e XI secolo, Roma 2018.

• List of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsNotes on Contributors1 Syriac Florilegia and Patristic Christianity beyond East and WestEmiliano Fiori2 An Unpublished Syriac Collection of the Old Testament Testimonia against the Jews from the Early Islamic PeriodSergey Minov3 Tongues on a Golden Mouth: The Transition from Scholia to Florilegia as Evidenced in a Sixth-Century Syriac Chrysostom ManuscriptYonatan Moss4 Heresiology and Florilegia: The Reception of Epiphanius of Salamis’ Panarion and Ephrem the Syrian’s Prose Refutations and Hymns against HeresiesFlavia Ruani5 A Geological Approach to Syriac Miaphysite Christology (Sixth-Ninth Centuries): Detours of a Patristic Florilegium from Antioch to TagritEmiliano Fiori6 Patristic Tradition, Trinitarian Doctrine, and Metaphysics in Abū Rāʾiṭah al-Takrītī’s Polemics against the MelkitesBishara Ebeid7 Beyond Abbreviation: The Reception of Gregory of Nyssa, Severus of Antioch, and the Song of Songs in a Syriac Exegetical Collection (BL Add. 12168)Marion Pragt8 A Syriac Monk’s Reading of Ephrem of Nisibis: A Perspective on Syriac Monastic MiscellaniesGrigory Kessel9 Meandering through Monastic Miscellanies from Turfan to Iraq: First Remarks on the Comparison of Sogdian Manuscript E28 with Syriac Ascetic Collections Referable to ItVittorio Berti10 The Shining Lamp: An Arabic Florilegium of Conciliar TextsHerman G.B. TeuleIndex of Ancient Authors and WorksIndex of ManuscriptsIndex of Modern Authors