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Early Christianity Outside the Roman Empire consists of two lectures delivered by the author at Trinity College, Dublin. The first on Aphrahat, the Persian sage, and the second on Bardaisan and the...

Although scholars have often made inferences about the Greek texts that lay behind the Old Syriac and Peshitta versions of the Gospels, very few have ever attempted to formulate rules for how such...

This book traces the rich religious, cultural, artistic, ecconomical, social and historical relations among the Greeks and the Middle East people from the Late Antiquity up to the 17th century...

An English translation of the Daily Offices of the East Syriac right, used today by the Assyrain Church of the East, the Chaldean Church, and the Syro-Malabar Church.Author: Arthur J...

The chapters of this volume explore both broad themes and specific topics dealing with several aspects connected with the Eastern Christian Legacy. The volume illustrates the strength of Christian...

Using the Seven Ecumenical Councils as backbone, Hore provides the reader with an overview of the Greek Orthodox Church. Writing in an era when the Oxford Movement was reaching a wide array of...

Setting aside the question of the "reality" of Horace's Epistles Book 1, this work investigates its "epistolarity", i.e. the many epistolary features that, in view of the consistency with which they...

This series of papers presents a thorough and enlightening overview of the nature of the Erechtheion's remains, its history of renovation and destruction, and the purposes to which it may have been...

The Curetonian Version of the Four Gospels, with the readings of the Sinai Palimpsest, and the early Syriac Patristic evidence. (volume 2)Author: F. C. BurkittPublisher: Gorgias PressPublication...

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...

This essay grapples with the question of theodicy as represented by the Ante-Nicene writers Lactantius and the writer of the Pseudo-Clementine literature. Bussell's dialogue with these sources points...

The Old, the New and the Rewritten illustrates how Targum Psalms creatively interprets selected psalms and how those interpretations relate to other Jewish and Christian traditions, including early...

A historical sketch on the archaeological explorations in Assyria, Babylonia, Palestine, Egypt, Arabia and Hittite areas. It gives "a clear conception of the gradual resurrection of the principal...

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...

This work, based almost entirely on the primary Arabic texts of Sunn? and Sh?ca Islam, offers a fresh examination of the life of Fatima, Muhammad's only surviving child, and reveals for the first...

At the dividing line between Antiquity and the Middle Ages, scholar-diplomat-pastor-writer-pope Gregory the Great drew on his profound knowledge of Scripture and his personal experience to preach the...

This volume of collected essays focuses on Middle Turkic and Ottoman literature.Author: Robert DankoffPublisher: Gorgias PressPublication Date: Feb 01, 2009Number of Pages: 510 pagesBinding: Hardback...

Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar is an essential reference tool for any student of classical Hebrew. Apart from the thorough explanation given to each aspect of grammar and syntax, this volume contains an...

A rare glimpse into the wealth of manuscripts held by the community of Mount Athos, this volume includes material from codices psi and Evang. 1071, and chapters from Acta Pilati, and a fragment of...

The standard grammar of the Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialect of Kurdistan, spoken by the East Syrians and Jews.Author: Arthur John MacLeanPublisher: Gorgias PressPublication Date: Feb 25, 2003Number of...

This is a thorough academic tutorial of the Syriac language beginning with its history and ending with the learning of the language itself.Author: Barsoum AyyubPublisher: Gorgias PressPublication...

Hannibal's invasion of Italia in 218 BC is depicted from the standpoint of environmental evidence elicited from ancient texts, and analyzed against present-day Earth Science databases.Author: W. C...

Born as a Greek Ottoman in Constantinople/Istanbul, Demetra Vaka Brown (1877-1946) moved to America where she became a journalist and novelist, revisiting Turkey to write several books about the...

This book presents the significance of healing theology and the ways in which the healing of man - spiritually, mentally and corporally - is highly valued by Ephrem the Syrian.Author: Aho...

This collection of articles by Richard E. Mitchell presents all the major historiographical problems scholars encounter in reconstructing the early Republic; its interpretation of evidence continues...

In this formidable study, Jastrow compares several aspects of the religious life of the Israelites and ancient Babylonias by comparison of their written texts. Among the topics examined are the...

Written by a Copt, the book portrays the history of the faith of these non-Chalcedonian Churches with first-hand knowledge of their traditions, covering the Copts, Ethiopians, Syriac Orthodox,...

A brilliant history of the land into which more historical and cultural events were croweded than perhaps into any area of equal size. For Syria has either invented or transmitted to mankind such...

An account of the arrival of the Arabs in Spain, and the civilization they created there. Includes an introduction to Islam, and the journey of the Islamic expansion until the Conquest, concentrating...

This book covers the history of the Syrian church of India from its founding by the apostle Thomas in 52 A.D., until the first half of the twentieth century. The relations of the Church of India with...