{"id":5706,"date":"2022-01-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5706"},"modified":"2021-12-13T19:06:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T19:06:26","slug":"short-history-of-syriac-literature-by-william-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/short-history-of-syriac-literature-by-william-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Short History of Syriac Literature by William Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/history-of-syriac-literature_wright.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/history-of-syriac-literature_wright.jpg\" alt=\"William Wright [1830-1889], A Short History of Syriac Literature\" class=\"wp-image-5708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/history-of-syriac-literature_wright.jpg 270w, https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/history-of-syriac-literature_wright-108x300.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s free book is William Wright&#8217;s <em>Short History of Syriac Literature<\/em>. Wright was Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge. This public domain work was digitised using the copy from the library of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terence_Mitchell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Terence C. Mitchell<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/book_history-of-syriac-literature_wright.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">William Wright [1830-1889], <em>A Short History of Syriac Literature<\/em>. London: Adam &amp; Charles Black, 1894. Hbk. pp.296. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_45255f-0b .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_45255f-0b .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_45255f-0b\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\" style=\"height:60px\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\" style=\"border-top-color:#eee;border-top-width:1px;width:80%;border-top-style:solid\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Main image: Columns on the top of Urfa Castle, \u015eanl\u0131urfa, Turkey. These are the remains of the ancient city of Edessa, the centre of the region where the Aramaic dialect known as Syriac was spoken. Image Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Bgag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bernard Gagnon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s free book is William Wright&#8217;s Short History of Syriac Literature. Wright was Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge. This public domain work was digitised using the copy from the library of Terence C. Mitchell. William Wright [1830-1889], A Short History of Syriac Literature. London: Adam &amp; Charles Black, 1894. Hbk. pp.296. 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