Syriologist

plural Syriologists

1. Synonym of Syriacist.

   In our times Arthur Vööbus, the greatest living Syriologist, has concluded [...]

   1981, Colloque international sur les textes de Nag Hammadi, page 245

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   Of Oriental languages he studied with great zeal in addition to Arabic and Persian, chiefly Syriac, under the direction of Bernstein, the best Syriologist of his time.

   1894, The Jewish Quarterly Review, page 4

   The translatability of Greek into Syriac is highly problematic. Sebastian Brock, the well-known Syriologist, has noted [...]

   2013, How We Got the New Testament

   Synonyms: Syriacist