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Edessa 'the Blessed City'

av J B Segal, J B Segal

With printed dust jacket, Engelska, 2001-12-01

1283

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Edessa was celebrated for the legend of the exchange of letters between its king and Jesus, and was venerated as the first kingdom to accept Christianity. The story of its community, administered by Rome, Byzantium, Arabs, Crusades, and Turks, ref...

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Short History of Syriac Literature

av William Wright

Häftad, Engelska, 2001-01-01

963

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The 1887 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica contained an extensive article on Syriac Literature by the late Professor W. Wright. The article was later reprinted in this book, with additional notes.

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My Nestorian Adventure in China: Account of the Holm-Nestorian Expedition

av Frits Holm

Häftad, Engelska, 2001-01-01

995

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The narrative of this book relates the quest to bring a "Nestorian" monument--China's earliest record of Christianity--to the West. Holm vividly describes temples, synagogues and mosques, common natives and Buddhist priests, prisoners, soldiers, a...

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Eastern Churches Trilogy: The Orthodox Eastern Church

av Adrian Fortescue

Häftad, Engelska, 2001-01-01

837

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Part of a classic trilogy on Oriental Christianity that had a ground-breaking effect in bringing an awareness of the broader Christian world to Westerners. It remains the most readable and authoritative source on the churches to the east of Rome. ...

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Eastern Churches Trilogy: The Uniate Eastern Churches

av Adrian Fortescue, George D Smith

Häftad, Engelska, 2001-01-01

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Part of a classic trilogy on Oriental Christianity that had a ground-breaking effect in bringing an awareness of the broader Christian world to Westerners. It remains the most readable and authoritative source on the churches to the east of Rome. ...

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New Testament: A Literal Translation from the Syriac Peshitto Version

av James Murdock

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001-01-01

992

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A literal accurate translation of the Syriac New Testament into English, with marginal notes showing the original Syriac. A valuable tool for students, and a good NT for Syriac Churches.

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Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts, del 13:

Reception and Remembrance of Abraham

av Pernille Carstens, Niels Peter Lemche

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011-08-04

1488

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This book explores the role of the biblical patriarch Abraham in the formation and use of authoritative texts in the Persian and Hellenistic periods. It reflects a conference session in 2009 focusing on Abraham as a figure of cultural memory in th...

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Gorgias Handbooks, del 23:

Introduction to Syriac Reading and Writing

av George Kiraz, George Anton Kiraz, George A Kiraz

Häftad, Engelska, 2011-08-01

283

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This volume introduces the letters of the Syriac alphabet a few at the time, and each set of letters is accompanied by guides to pronunciation and the correct way to write the letters, including helpful charts and illustrations. Practice exercises...

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Analecta Gorgiana, del 1040:

Theodora the "Believing Queen": A Study in Syriac Historiographical Tradition

av Susan Harvey, Susan A Harvey

Häftad, Engelska, 2011-12-14

239

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Syriac tradition remembers sixth century Byzantine emperor Justinian I as the harsh persecutor of the faithful, while his wife Theodora is revered as the "believing queen", champion and protectress of the dissenting non-Chalcedonian church.

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Analecta Gorgiana, del 1042:

Inscriptions Syriaques de Salamas, en Perse

av M Duval

Häftad, Engelska, 2011-12-14

243

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This publication presents the transcription and translation of eight Syriac inscriptions from the Persian region of Salamas found in ancient cemeteries and church buildings. The inscriptions are accompanied by brief commentary and helpful introduc...

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Analecta Gorgiana, del 1044:

Jacob of Serugh, the Man Behind the Mimre

av Khalid Dinno

Häftad, Engelska, 2011-12-14

229

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Credited by Dinno as the epitome of Syriac spiritual heritage, Mor Jacob of Serugh interpreted the physical world with the hidden realities of God. A prominent theme in Mor Jacob's mimre is the economy of salvation.

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Analecta Gorgiana, del 1046:

Syriac Orthodox Celebration of the Eucharist in Light of Jacob of Serugh's Mimro 95

av Amir Harrak

Häftad, Engelska, 2011-12-14

269

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Jacob of Serugh's "Mimro 95" details the significance of the Eucharist and spiritual benefit for participants. Harrak divides verses of this commentary in order to relate stages of liturgy within the Pre-Anaphoric and Anaphoric services of 6th cen...

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Analecta Gorgiana, del 1047:

To Whom Did Jacob Preach?

av Susan Harvey, Susan Ashbrook Harvey

Häftad, Engelska, 2011-12-14

226

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The long career of Jacob of Serugh provides insights into Scripture and tradition expected by homilies as well as information about his audience. In this publication, Harvey discusses Jacob of Serugh's concern for congregations to balance lifestyl...

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Analecta Gorgiana, del 1049:

Jacob of Serugh and His Influence on John of Dara as Exemplified by the Use of Two Verse-Homilies

av Aho Shemunkasho

Häftad, Engelska, 2011-12-14

251

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Some of John of Dara's 9th century treatises survive in Codex 356 in Mardin, in which Jacob of Serugh is called "Jacob of Batnan", "Jacob", and titles of respect. This article describes Jacob's significant influence, comparing two-verse homilies i...

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Analecta Gorgiana, del 1051:

Jacob of Serugh

av Sebastian Brock

Häftad, Engelska, 2011-12-14

229

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Brock provides an indispensable bibliographic resource for Jacob of Serugh scholarship. This guide lists Jacob's mimre by biblical passage and liturgical events, uplifted saints and topics, other works including prose and letters, and recommended ...

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Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East, del 1:

Facing an Empire

av Guido Guarducci

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013-06-18

920

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Recent archaeological discoveries within the Upper Tigris region in Southeastern Turkey offer a unique opportunity to understand the dynamics of the Assyrian Empire borderlands. Within a few years most of the region will be irreversibly submerged,...

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Judaism in Context, del 12:

Jewish-Christian Conversation in Fourth-Century Persian Mesopotamia

av Naomi Koltun-Fromm

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011-12-13

1556

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Was there an active Jewish-Christian polemic in fourth-century Persia? Aphrahat's Demonstrations, a fourth-century adversus Judaeos text, clearly indicates that fourth-century Persian Christians were interested in the debate. Is there evidence of ...

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Biblical Intersections, del 10:

Eve: The Unbearable Flaming Fire

av Mishael Caspi, John Greene

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013-02-01

920

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This anthology on Eve brings together an international group of scholars to discuss how this character has been interpreted by Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In a time when the history of women is being reassessed, it is natural that women look ...

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Gorgias Handbooks, del 24:

Index of Notable Persons in the Syriac Tradition within Select Arabic Sources

av George Kiraz, Emilee Walker Cornetta, George Anton Kiraz, George A Kiraz

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011-12-13

768

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This volume contains the contents of George Kiraz's catalogue of over 1300 people and places related to the Syriac tradition, expanded to include Latin names and citations as well as references to the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac ...

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Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East, del 7:

Engraved on Stone

av Rony Feingold

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014-06-02

1001

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Cylinder seals were important instruments in the Ancient Near East, and were used in Mesopotamia from the beginning of the third millennium BCE to the fifth century BCE. This volume presents an analysis of 1000 cylinder seals (including 70 that ar...

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Texts from Christian Late Antiquity, del 31:

Martyrdom of St Phokas of Sinope

av Sebastian Brock, P Brock Sebastian, Sebastian P Brock

Häftad, Engelska, 2013-01-08

392

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The fame of the martyr St. Phokas, first bishop of Sinope (on the Black Sea) and patron of seafarers, had spread to many parts of the Christian world by the fifth and sixth centuries. Although the Acts of his martyrdom under Trajan were composed i...

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Persian Martyr Acts in Syriac Text and Translation, del 2:

Story of Mar Pinhas

av Adam McCollum

Häftad, Engelska, 2013-03-21

679

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This volume contains the Syriac Life of Mar Pinhas, a purported martyr under the Sasanian Empire. This edition contains the Syriac text (first published in 1894 by Paul Bedjan), an English translation, explanatory annotations, and Addai Scher's Ar...

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Iran as Imagined Nation

av Mostafa Vaziri

Häftad, Engelska, 2013-07-18

389

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A critical study of how Iranian nationalism, itself largely influenced by Orientalist scholarship first undertaken by the European Orientalists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has shaped modern conceptions of Iran and Iranian identity, ...

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Perspectives on Linguistics and Ancient Languages, del 4:

Reflections on Lexicography

av Society Of Biblical Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014-01-31

1427

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Colloquia of the International Syriac Language Project. These essays offer a probing analysis of selected lexical tools and methods for working with ancient Syriac, Hebrew, and Greek sources, as well as offering reflections on methodological conce...

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Biblical Intersections, del 13:

In the Arms of Biblical Women

av John Greene, Mishael Caspi

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013-07-11

1471

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The less-discussed character in the Bible is the woman: two talking animals therein have sometimes received more page space. This volume shines the light of close scrutiny in the less-trodden direction and focuses on biblical and allied women, or ...

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Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity, del 9:

Small Temple

av Sara Reid

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013-06-18

1265

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Excavation of the Small Temple of Petra, Jordan has revealed a Roman building likely dedicated to the imperial cult. Constructed in the wake of Roman annexation of Nabataea in 106 CE, the temple would have helped to solidify Roman control. Reid sy...

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Munaqashat Gorgias Studies in the Modern Middle East, del 4:

Reforming Ottoman Governance

av Fuat Andic, Suphan Andic, Fuat M Andic

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014-02-11

1769

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The book is the history of reform attempts in the Ottoman Empire and the internal and external difficulties in implementing them. Imperialist aggression towards the Empire and bloody janissary revolts hampered the reforms, and although some succes...

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Gorgias Handbooks:

Introduction to Early Christianity

av Pau Figueras

Häftad, Engelska, 2014-03-26

499

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A general introduction to the origin and development of Christianity, from its Jewish background in the land of Israel up to its contribution to the thought and art of medieval Europe.

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Perspectives on Society and Culture, del 1:

Conversos in the Responsa of Sephardic Halakhic Authorities in the 15th Century

av Dora Zsom

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014-01-24

883

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This volume presents a systematic and detailed elaboration of the halakhic (legal) decisions written by five of the most important authors who wrote responsa concerning conversos between the years 1391 and 1492. The expulsion was an event that rad...

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Texts and Studies, del 1:

Studies in the Early Text of the Gospels and Acts

av David Taylor

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013-10-04

883

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Eleven papers from the First Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, examining aspects of the Textus Receptus, the 'Pre-Johannine Text' of the Gospel, the ratings system in the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testame...

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