A Tract of Plutarch on the Advantage to Be Derived from One's Enemies: The Syriac Version (Cambridge Library Collection - Religion) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1108043178 ISBN 13: 9781108043175

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Paperback. Pub Date: 2012 Pages: 52 Publisher: Camidge. The University Press Eberhard Nestle (1851-1913) was a German withbiblical scholar and theologian who Studied at the University of Tbingen before teaching in London and across Germany. A talented Linguist and textual critic. he published a grammar of Syriac and several editions of ancient manuscripts including the New Testament in Greek. This work. originally published in 1894 as part of the Studia Sinaitica series. is the text in Syriac of a treatise by Plutarch on human virtue found in a manuscript in the liary of the Monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai. Nestle believed the text dated from the late sixth century and suggested that it was translated into Syriac from Greek by a Christian scholar who adapted it for a Christian audience. This text will be of great interest both to Syriac scholars and to those interes...

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Eberhard Nestle (1851–1913) was a German biblical scholar known chiefly for his textual criticism of the New Testament. This text, first published in 1894 as part of the Studia Sinaitica, is a Syriac version of a Plutarch treatise on human virtue, accompanied by Nestle's typical careful translation and notes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1108043178
• ISBN 13: 9781108043175
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 54