Syriac Christian Culture: Beginnings to Renaissance

By:

Butts, Aaron Michael and Young, Robin Darling [editors]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Washington, DC The Catholic University of America Press 2020Description: 354pISBN:

9780813233680

DDC classification:

B984 J27

Contents:

Aphrahat and Ephrem: From Context to Reception 1. Making Ephrem One of Us Joseph Amar, University of Notre Dame 2. The Significance of Astronomical and Calendrical Theories for Ephrem's Interpretation of the Three Days of Jesus' Death Blake Hartung, Arizona State University 3. Reconsidering the Compositional Unity of Aphrahat's Demonstrations ❖ J. Edward Walters, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library 4. From Sketches to Portraits The Canaanite Woman within Late Antique Syriac Poetry Erin Galgay Walsh, University of Chicago Divinity School Translation 5. The Syriac Reception of Plato's Republic Yury Arzhanov, Ruhr University, Bochum 6. 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, Pontifical Biblical Institute Hagiography: Formation and Transmission 7. The Invention of the Persian Martyr Acts Adam Becker, New York University 8. The Sources of the History of Abda damšiḥā 9. The Creation of a Persian Martyr Act Simcha Gross, University of Pennsylvania Stories, Saints, and Sanctity between Christianity and Islam The Conversion of Najran to Christianity in the Sīra of Muhammad Reyhan Durmaz, University of Pennsylvania Christians in the Islamic World 10. Syriac in the Polyglot Medieval Middle East Digital Tools and the Dissemination of Scholarship Across Linguistic Boundaries → Thomas A. Carlson, Oklahoma State University 11. Christian Arabic Historiography at the Crossroads between the Byzantine, the Syriac, and the Islamic Traditions Maria Conterno, Ghent University 12. Seeing to be Seen Mirrors and Angels in John of Dalyatha → Zachary Ugolnik, Stanford University 13. On Sources for the Social and Cultural History of Christians during the Syriac Renaissance Dorothea Weltecke, Goethe Universität Epilogue 14. Syriac Studies in the Contemporary Academy Some Reflections Kristian Heal, Brigham Young University

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Aphrahat and Ephrem: From Context to Reception
1. Making Ephrem One of Us
Joseph Amar, University of Notre Dame
2. The Significance of Astronomical and Calendrical Theories for
Ephrem's Interpretation of the Three Days of Jesus' Death
Blake Hartung, Arizona State University
3. Reconsidering the Compositional Unity of Aphrahat's
Demonstrations
❖ J. Edward Walters, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
4. From Sketches to Portraits
The Canaanite Woman within Late Antique Syriac Poetry
Erin Galgay Walsh, University of Chicago Divinity School
Translation
5. The Syriac Reception of Plato's Republic
Yury Arzhanov, Ruhr University, Bochum
6. 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, Pontifical Biblical Institute
Hagiography: Formation and Transmission
7. The Invention of the Persian Martyr Acts
Adam Becker, New York University
8. The Sources of the History of Abda damšiḥā
9. The Creation of a Persian Martyr Act
Simcha Gross, University of Pennsylvania
Stories, Saints, and Sanctity between Christianity
and Islam
The Conversion of Najran to Christianity in the Sīra of Muhammad
Reyhan Durmaz, University of Pennsylvania
Christians in the Islamic World
10. Syriac in the Polyglot Medieval Middle East
Digital Tools and the Dissemination of Scholarship Across
Linguistic Boundaries
→ Thomas A. Carlson, Oklahoma State University
11. Christian Arabic Historiography at the Crossroads between the
Byzantine, the Syriac, and the Islamic Traditions
Maria Conterno, Ghent University
12. Seeing to be Seen
Mirrors and Angels in John of Dalyatha
→ Zachary Ugolnik, Stanford University
13. On Sources for the Social and Cultural History of Christians
during the Syriac Renaissance
Dorothea Weltecke, Goethe Universität
Epilogue
14. Syriac Studies in the Contemporary Academy
Some Reflections
Kristian Heal, Brigham Young University

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