Aristotelian Rhetoric in Syriac
Barhebraeus, Butyrum Sapientiae, Book of Rhetoric
John W. Watt with assistance of Daniel Isaac, Julian Faultless and Ayman Shihadeh
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Biographical note
John W. Watt, Ph.D. (1974), University of St. Andrews, is Reader in the School of Religious Studies at Cardiff University. His other publications in Syriac literature include The Fifth Book of the Rhetoric of Antony of Tagrit (Peeters, 1986), and with J.W. Drijvers he has edited Portraits of Spiritual Authority (Brill, 1999).
Readership
It will be of interest to historians of Syriac literature, rhetoric, and the Aristotelian tradition.
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