The Sentences of the Syriac Menander : : Introduction, Text and Translation, and Commentary / / David Gregory Monaco.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Monaco, David Gregory,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table Of Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Text and Translation --; 3. Commentary --; 4. Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463234751; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463234751
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Gregory Monaco.

The Sentences of the Syriac Menander appears in two Syriac manuscripts in the British Library, a full version in one codex, and a far shorter version, only a small fraction thereof, in another. This book presents a commentary on the text in its complete version focusing on parallels from both Jewish tradition and the Greco-Roman world, showing that the text is not, as it claims, the work of the Greek author Menander, but rather a work of Jewish Wisdom Literature composed in Syriac, possibly in the ancient city of Edessa itself, and preserved within Christian monastic circles.