Theology & Religion
Format: Hardback
Pages: 748
ISBN: 9781593330705
Pub Date: 22 Oct 2004
Description:
A concordance of the two text witnesses to the Old Syriac Gospel of the Distinct Evangelists (Evangelion da-Mepharreshe), namely Codex Curetonianus and Codex Sinaiticus. The text basis for this concordance is that found in George Anton Kiraz, Comparative Edition of the Syriac Gospels (Gorgias Press, 2nd ed., 2004) with a number of judicious emendations.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 766
ISBN: 9781593330712
Pub Date: 22 Oct 2004
Description:
A concordance of the two text witnesses to the Old Syriac Gospel of the Distinct Evangelists (Evangelion da-Mepharreshe), namely Codex Curetonianus and Codex Sinaiticus. The text basis for this concordance is that found in George Anton Kiraz, Comparative Edition of the Syriac Gospels (Gorgias Press, 2nd ed., 2004) with a number of judicious emendations.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 212
ISBN: 9781593330583
Pub Date: 22 Oct 2004
Description:
A stirring collection of fifteen articles, many of which have been previously published by the author who is a feminist Jew. The author unabashedly confronts difficult biblical and midrashic texts, without taking an apologetic stance.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9781593331504
Pub Date: 12 Sep 2004
Description:
In this revised and updated edition of his classic work, Robert Murray offers the fullest and most vivid picture yet available of the development and character of the culture. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 324
ISBN: 9781593331030
Pub Date: 25 Aug 2004
Description:
In this book, the Rev. William Ainger Wigram, head of the Mission of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Assyrian Church, gives an introduction to the history of the ancient church, covering its Christology.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 484
ISBN: 9781593331009
Pub Date: 25 Aug 2004
Description:
Antient Liturgies was a valuable resource at an early stage in comparative liturgical studies and continues to provide a broad overview of the diversity of early Christian worship in an accessible and convenient format for students and scholars.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 420
ISBN: 9781593331320
Pub Date: 25 Aug 2004
Description:
This book, originally published in Rome in 1775, remains the major reference to the history of the patriarchs of the Church of the East (Chaldean and "Nestorian"). The volume is appended by another work by J.A.
Assemani on church unity.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9781593331108
Pub Date: 25 Aug 2004
Description:
Janin's work gives an account of the various churches of the East, both Byzantine and oriental. The author gives the history and organizational structure for each branch of the church.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 344
ISBN: 9781593331047
Pub Date: 20 Jul 2004
Description:
This is a highly fascinating and enlightening study of the medical words and phrases common to the third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. Hobart demonstrates, using medical sources by Galen and Hippocrates, that the writer of Luke was a physician with knowledge of Greek medical terms.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9781593331665
Pub Date: 20 Jul 2004
Description:
An investigation into the character of the text contained in Codex Bezae and Codex Laudianus. The book is an independent contribution to the textual criticism of the New Testament. It reminds scholars not to neglect the Syriac perspective on textual problems and will remain useful by the materials it compiles.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 164
ISBN: 9781593331672
Pub Date: 20 Jul 2004
Description:
This sequel to The Old Syriac Element in the text of the Codex Bezae (also available from Gorgias Press), shows that assimilation to Old Syriac texts was a predominant factor in the formation of the Greek and Latin Western text.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 252
ISBN: 9781593331016
Pub Date: 12 May 2004
Description:
Contains six lectures: early bishops of Edessa, Bible in Syriac, early Syriac theology, marriage and the sacraments, Bardaisan and his disciples, Acts of Judas Thomas, and Hymn of the Soul. They were delivered in 1904 by Burkitt, then lecturer in paleography, at the University of Cambridge.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781593331061
Pub Date: 12 May 2004
Description:
This book is a compilation of letters, narratives of journeys and local traditions, and various documents pertaining to the Archbishop of Canterbury's Mission to the Assyrian Church of the East.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 140
ISBN: 9781593332822
Pub Date: 12 May 2004
Description:
Shirin, the beloved wife of the Persian shah, Chosroes II (b. 628), pulled political strings behind the scenes and supported the Christian minority in Iran.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 204
ISBN: 9781593330996
Pub Date: 12 May 2004
Description:
The Church Orders are an interesting series of manuals in The Ancient Church Orders. A. J.
Maclean makes them better known to the modern reader, and explains the extent to which they throw light on early Christian worship and customs.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 416
ISBN: 9781593332808
Pub Date: 12 May 2004
Description:
This two-volume book is the result of seven months of field work in Egypt. It is an important document for its time and an early and influential example of unprejudiced scholarly interest in the culture of the Coptic Church.