Dialogue is confirmed in the most ancient literature for which we have written documentation as a general framework for the structuring of a text, from Sumer to Assiro-Babylonian Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. Biblical literature has acted as an intermediary for the transmission of Mesopotamian wisdom and for some of its forms of expression in later Jewish and Christian literature. Among some of the late Aramaic literature it is certainly the Syriac Christian literature that has produced and conserved the greater number of discussions and dialogues, in the widest range of poetic forms. The integration of the discussion in hymnography and in liturgical usage explains the ivacity in production and the greater orderliness in the preservation of texts in a Syriac Christian environment. Dialogues in Syriac verse show, moreover, as an excellent example, certain features of Syriac Christianity: 1. The centrality of the Bible and its interpretation; 2. The “Midrashic” aperture to para-biblical accounts, integration and apocryphal detail of biblical accounts; 3. A dense, often inextricable hyper-textual network that connects Syriac, Greek, Hebrew and later Muslim authors; 4. The spreading of exegetic ideas and thoughts through poetry; 5. An extraordinary capacity to adapt, and therefore continuity in time of literary forms; 6. The use of liturgical space as a place for re-processing, transmitting and celebrating shared knowledge.

Écriture et écritures dans les poèmes dialogués syriaques

MENGOZZI, Alessandro
2015-01-01

Abstract

Dialogue is confirmed in the most ancient literature for which we have written documentation as a general framework for the structuring of a text, from Sumer to Assiro-Babylonian Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. Biblical literature has acted as an intermediary for the transmission of Mesopotamian wisdom and for some of its forms of expression in later Jewish and Christian literature. Among some of the late Aramaic literature it is certainly the Syriac Christian literature that has produced and conserved the greater number of discussions and dialogues, in the widest range of poetic forms. The integration of the discussion in hymnography and in liturgical usage explains the ivacity in production and the greater orderliness in the preservation of texts in a Syriac Christian environment. Dialogues in Syriac verse show, moreover, as an excellent example, certain features of Syriac Christianity: 1. The centrality of the Bible and its interpretation; 2. The “Midrashic” aperture to para-biblical accounts, integration and apocryphal detail of biblical accounts; 3. A dense, often inextricable hyper-textual network that connects Syriac, Greek, Hebrew and later Muslim authors; 4. The spreading of exegetic ideas and thoughts through poetry; 5. An extraordinary capacity to adapt, and therefore continuity in time of literary forms; 6. The use of liturgical space as a place for re-processing, transmitting and celebrating shared knowledge.
2015
Le sacre scritture e le loro interpretazioni
Bulzoni Editore
Orientalia ambrosiana
4
227
237
978-88-7870-990-4
Mengozzi, Alessandro
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