Theology & Religion
Format: Hardback
Pages: 289
ISBN: 9781617192319
Pub Date: 12 Jul 2011
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
Lamy here studies questions on the Eucharist according to Syriac witnesses. In addition, he gives canonical texts (in Syriac and Latin with thorough commentary) from John of Tella and Jacob of Edessa.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 178
ISBN: 9781611432206
Pub Date: 12 Jul 2011
Series: Bar Ebroyo Kloster Publications
Description:
Philoxenos Yuhanon Dolabani provides a history of the monastery of Mor Gabriel, the oldest surviving monastery of the Syrian Orthodox tradition.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 219
ISBN: 9781617192555
Pub Date: 12 Jul 2011
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
French orientalist Paulin Martin (1840-1890) here discusses Christianity in 19th century Iraq and the surrounding areas.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 203
ISBN: 9781617191800
Pub Date: 12 Jul 2011
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
This volume is a study of the origins of Christianity in Edessa, covering the question from both a historical and a legendary perspective, including the Doctrine of Addai.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 404
ISBN: 9781463200770
Pub Date: 12 Jul 2011
Series: Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts
Description:
Previous generations of scholars believed that prophecy was unique to ancient Israel. However, recent archaeological discoveries reveal that numerous societies in the ancient Near East practiced prophecy. This study examines the similarities and differences between Neo-Assyrian and biblical prophecy, particularly focusing on the 7th c.
BCE prophets Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah, and discusses what implications these differences may have for our understanding of these prophets.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 254
ISBN: 9781617192418
Pub Date: 12 Jul 2011
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
This still standard study on Nestorius is guided by the question: Did Nestorius mean what people have thought that he meant? Chapters cover the sources and content for our knowledge about his teaching.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9781617193095
Pub Date: 12 Jul 2011
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
In this multi-faceted study of Greek texts related to Ephrem, Emereau examines these works from a number of angles, including their poetic form, their influence on homily writers of the 5th cent., and Byzantine hymnography.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 108
ISBN: 9781607249962
Pub Date: 12 Jul 2011
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
This volume contains a collection of short notes on select biblical passages from the Old Testament by one of the most celebrated authors of the Syriac tradition. The work includes both the Syriac text and an annotated English translation.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9781463200848
Pub Date: 12 Jul 2011
Description:
This book is the definitive critical analysis of the Jewish feminist theological project in the United States, its principal theologians and its foundational, embryonic, and more elaborated sacral discursive. The monograph critically examines each of the diverse theologians, their varied perspectives, and individual contributions, and asks will a prescriptive Jewish feminist theology ever be a reality?
Format: Hardback
Pages: 228
ISBN: 9781617192067
Pub Date: 12 Jul 2011
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
Khayyath, Chaldean archbishop of Amid, here explores the literary testimonies of writers in Syriac and Arabic from the Church of the East on the question of the primacy of the Roman pontiff.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 348
ISBN: 9781617192395
Pub Date: 12 Jul 2011
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
Khoury provides a complete history of the Maronite Mission in Egypt from the mid-18th into the beginning of the 20th century, including chapters on the important figures connected with the mission and other historical events.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 173
ISBN: 9781617191787
Pub Date: 12 Jul 2011
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
This volume, the author’s dissertation written under Gottheil’s supervision, investigates the numerous variants between the Syriac version of the Psalms and the Hebrew text in light of those texts themselves and with thorough reference to the Septuagint.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 211
ISBN: 9781617192371
Pub Date: 12 Jul 2011
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
This volume is a detailed examination of the some of the letters of Ignatius available in two Greek recensions but also a Syriac translation and the relationship between these versions.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 42
ISBN: 9781617190018
Pub Date: 28 May 2011
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
This document details the nineteenth-century controversy over the distribution of Bibles to the laity. This translation by a Low Church baronet includes an introduction addressed to ‘all members of the Church of Christ’, the original document in Latin, and translations in Italian and English.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 328
ISBN: 9781611436495
Pub Date: 28 May 2011
Series: The Harp
Description:
The Harp is the scholarly journal of Syriac, Oriental, and Ecumenical studies published by the St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute (SEERI) in Kottayam, India.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 410
ISBN: 9781611436525
Pub Date: 28 May 2011
Series: The Harp
Description:
The Harp is the scholarly journal of Syriac, Oriental, and Ecumenical studies published by the St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute (SEERI) in Kottayam, India.