| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 354 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Aphrahat and Ephrem: From context to reception -- Making Ephrem one of us / Joseph Amar -- The significance of astronomical and calendrical theories for Ephrem's interpretation of the three days of Jesus' death / Blake Hartung -- Reconsidering the compositional unity of Aphrahat's Demonstrations / J. Edward Walters -- From sketches to portraits -- The Canaanite woman within lat Antique Syriac poetry / Erin Galgay Walsh -- Translation -- the Syriac reception of Plato's Republic / Yury Arzhanov -- Did the dying Jacob gather his feet into his bed (MT) or stretch them out (Peshitta)? -- Describing the unique character of the Peshitta / Craig Morrison -- Hagiography: formation and transmission -- The invention of the Persian Martyr Acts / Adam Becker -- The sources of the history of 'Abda damsiha / Simcha Gross -- Stories, saints, and sanctity between Christianity and Islam / Reyhan Durmaz -- Chirstians in the Islamic world -- Syriac in the polyglot medieval Middle East / Thomas A. Carlson -- Christian Arabic Historiography at the crossroads between the Byzantine, the Syriac, and the Islamic traditions / Maria Conterno -- Seeing to be seen / Zachary Ugolnik -- On sources for the social and cultural history of Christians during the Syriac renaissance / Krisian Heal |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses
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Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Congresses
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Catholic.
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Church history -- Middle Ages
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Church history -- Primitive and early church
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| SUBJECT |
Syria -- Church history -- Congresses
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| Subject |
Syria
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Butts, Aaron Michael, editor.
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Young, Robin Darling, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780813233697 |
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0813233690 |
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