{"id":46520,"date":"2023-10-13T19:22:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T18:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=46520"},"modified":"2023-10-13T19:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T18:22:32","slug":"ephrem-graecus-published-english-translations-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2023\/10\/13\/ephrem-graecus-published-english-translations-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ephrem Graecus – Published English translations coming soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ephrem the Syrian is the most famous of the Syriac writers; but there is a mass of material in Greek attributed to him.\u00a0 Some of it is translations of the Syriac, but most is clearly not.\u00a0 It looks as if there was a fashion for writing in his style at one point.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately this large splodge of unexplored material has never been critically edited.\u00a0 Instead it was collected by Assemani in the 18th century from manuscripts, and more or less printed as he found it.\u00a0 Some of the texts are clearly excerpts from others of the texts.\u00a0 Assemani gave a Latin translation.<\/p>\n

Since then we’ve had Phrantzolas reprint the text in 1988-98 in 7 volumes, with a modern Greek translation.\u00a0 That was a step forward.<\/p>\n

But now I read that a complete English translation is in progress!\u00a0 An English translation is indeed the obvious next step.\u00a0 Making it easier to dip into the texts will cause more young scholars to start doing so, and in turn to start creating scholarship about it.\u00a0 Little by little Ephrem Graecus is being opened up!<\/p>\n

Via the St Ephrem: The Greek Corpus site<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Published Translations of Ephrem Graecus Coming\u00a0Soon<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s it. That\u2019s the news. A translation of the Greek writings attributed to St Ephrem the Syrian is currently underway with St Vladimir\u2019s Seminary Press. They are currently working on vol. 1 (of seven). Look for it probably in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The site owner told me:<\/p>\n

\n

A friend of mine here in the US is working on it. I had planned to do a volume of the most (historically) \u201cimportant\u201d texts, but he was inspired to do the whole collection, so I yielded to him. It will be very good to finally put out there<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is massively good news.\u00a0\u00a0Wonderful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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