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The conflict of the early Christian Church with Judaism found expression in a particular genre of liturgical literature: Syriac dialogue poetry. This book provides the Syriac texts of four anonymous dialogue poems from between the fifth and eight centuries CE, together with fully annotated English translations and introductions examining their position within the context of other Syriac texts that specifically concern Judaism. These carefully selected poems are fresh critical editions based on the oldest Syriac manuscripts and are published here together for the first time. The volume is enriched with illustrations based on some of the finest surviving illuminated Syriac manuscripts from late antiquity.

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Sebastian P. Brock, FBA, is one of the foremost scholars in the field of Syriac studies today. He taught at the Universities of Birmingham and Cambridge, and was Reader in Syriac Studies at the University of Oxford until his retirement in 2003. He is currently an Emeritus Fellow at Wolfson College and Emeritus Reader in Syriac Studies at the Faculty of Oriental Studies in Oxford. He has been awarded a number of honorary doctorates. He continues to publish extensively in the field of Syriac literature, liturgical and monastic literature, and has edited a number of previously unpublished texts.

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