Theology & Religion Hero Image
Theology & Religion
The Book of Acts According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781611439328
Pub Date: 17 Nov 2014
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Surath Kthob
Description:
This volume is part of a series of English translations of the Syriac Peshitta along with the Syriac text carried out by an international team of scholars.
al-Machriq (Vol 66) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 407
ISBN: 9781463200800
Pub Date: 14 Nov 2014
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
al-Machriq was an Arabic-French periodical focused on Eastern Christian and Islamic topics in the Arab world. This Gorgias reprint will make widely available a rare resource for scholars of Eastern Christianity, Islam, and modern Arabic thought.
The Three Visitors Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 32
ISBN: 9781847305541
Pub Date: 05 Nov 2014
Imprint: Veritas Books
Description:
On 21 August 1879, the small village of Knock in County Mayo received three unexpected visitors. By the wall of the church, a beautiful apparition of Mary, Joseph and St John the Evangelist captivated a group of local people, changing their lives and the life of this country village forever. Accompanied by charming illustrations from Barbara Croatto, children’s author Eleanor Gormally brings the familiar story of the apparition at Knock to life.
Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 14 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 110
ISBN: 9781463204693
Pub Date: 16 Oct 2014
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies
Description:
A refereed journal published annually by the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies. Volume 14 includes articles by Aaron Butts, Istvan Perczel, Emanuela Braida, Hikmat Bashir al-Aswad, and Nasir al-Ka'bi.
al-Machriq (Vol 45) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 701
ISBN: 9781463204709
Pub Date: 13 Oct 2014
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
al-Machriq was an Arabic-French periodical focused on Eastern Christian and Islamic topics in the Arab world. This Gorgias reprint will make widely available a rare resource for scholars of Eastern Christianity, Islam, and modern Arabic thought.
Revelation According to the Syriac Version with English Translation Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781463204136
Pub Date: 06 Oct 2014
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Surath Kthob
Description:
This volume is part of a series of English translations of the Syriac Peshitta along with the Syriac text carried out by an international team of scholars. Although the book of Revelation is not part of the Peshitta, it was translated into Syriac at a later date and added to the Harqlean version.
Syrians and the Others Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 543
ISBN: 9781463204242
Pub Date: 26 Sep 2014
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Scrinium: Revue de patrologie, d’hagiographie critique et d’histoire ecclésiastique
Description:
The volume contains the first editions of a number of works of Syrian authors and a publication of Coptic liturgical texts. It also includes a discussion of the letters of Nicetas Stethatos available only in Georgian and other patristic/hagiographical topics.
The Gospel of John According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781463204129
Pub Date: 26 Sep 2014
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Surath Kthob
Description:
This volume is part of a series of English translations of the Syriac Peshiṭta along with the Syriac text carried out by an international team of scholars. Childers has translated the Peshiṭta of John, while Kiraz has prepared the Syriac text in the west Syriac script, fully vocalized and pointed. The translation and the Syriac text are presented on facing pages so that both can be studied together.
Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures IX Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 804
ISBN: 9781463204204
Pub Date: 22 Sep 2014
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts
Description:
This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in volume 12 (2012) of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.
Vintage Values Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781847305404
Pub Date: 17 Sep 2014
Imprint: Veritas Books
Description:
This beautiful gift book showcases over one hundred high-quality pamphlet covers from the archives of the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland. The collection unearths striking designs and illustrations by some of Ireland’s most inventive commercial artists from the 1920s to the 1960s, and offers a unique insight into Irish culture in the middle years of the twentieth century.
Coping with Relationship Breakdown Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781847305619
Pub Date: 14 Sep 2014
Imprint: Veritas Books
Description:
Based on over twenty years’ expertise in relationship counselling, this concise, informative and easy-to-use book is a key resource for those facing, coping with or recovering from relationship breakdown. Offering an integrated holistic approach to separation and divorce, it provides proven psychological and practical techniques to help people master the inevitable crises along the way, with advice on avoiding conflict, overcoming grief and loss, parenting, alternatives to expensive legal disputes and much more. Written in relatable language, this book is an invaluable resource in overcoming the pain, anger and hopelessness that comes with the rollercoaster of relationship breakdown.
The Life and Works of Severus of Antioch in the Coptic and Copto-Arabic Tradition Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 475
ISBN: 9781617197383
Pub Date: 05 Sep 2014
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
Description:
Severus of Antioch is by far the most prolific and well known theologian of the non-Chalcedonian churches. Although his life and writings came to our knowledge in Syriac, gaining him the title “Crown of the Syriac Literature,” many texts relating to his life and works survived in the Coptic and Copto-Arabic tradition, as well as a number of other texts that were traditionally attributed to him. This book provides an analysis of these texts as well as a discussion of the veneration of Severus of Antioch in the Coptic Church.
I will be King over you! Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 343
ISBN: 9781463202866
Pub Date: 28 Aug 2014
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
This book examines various rhetorical ways in which the motif of Yahweh’s Kingship functions in the Book of Ezekiel and explores what these arguments contribute to our understanding of the prophetic book as a whole.
Whispers in the Stillness Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781847305558
Pub Date: 23 Aug 2014
Imprint: Veritas Books
Description:
Whispers in the Stillness invites us to see how the increasingly popular practice of mindfulness can be a doorway to spiritual experience. Interweaving stories and step-by-step meditations, along with psychological and scriptural wisdom, it provides guidance in discovering how the Spirit can reach us through moments of stillness and mindful awareness. Written by psychotherapist and retreat director Martina Lehane Sheehan, this book offers a new way of understanding how the combined practices of mindfulness and spirituality can lead to transformation.
Saint John Paul II Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 32
ISBN: 9781847305565
Pub Date: 22 Aug 2014
Imprint: Veritas Books
Description:
In Christ you will discover the true greatness of your awn humanity; he will make you understand your own dignity as human beings 'created to the image and likeness of God'. - Pope John Paul 11, 30 September 1979, Galway This booklet remembers the pope's landmark three-day visit to Ireland in 1979. Giving a brief overview of his early life, it explores each day of the pope's visit, with reflections on his homilies.
Early Readers, Scholars and Editors of the New Testament Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 233
ISBN: 9781463204112
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2014
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Texts and Studies
Description:
A collection of ten original papers on the New Testament text, first presented in 2013, which reflect the diversity of current research. Examples of ancient engagement with the Bible include Origen, Eusebius of Caesarea and Augustine along with early translations.