Article Title

New Book Features Work of Poet, Theologian

Authors

Daniel C. Peterson

Keywords

texts, Christian, language, translators, poems

Abstract

The Maxwell Institute’s Middle Eastern Texts Initiative has released the newest book in its Eastern Christian Texts series, a bilingual Syriac/English edition of Select Poems of Ephrem the Syrian. From the second to the eighth century ad, when Arabic supplanted it, Syriac was a major literary language across the Middle East; it is essentially a Christian form of Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus, the original apostles, and the first Jewish Christians.

Recommended Citation

Peterson, Daniel C. (2007) "New Book Features Work of Poet, Theologian," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 27: No. 2, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol27/iss2/3