TY  - BOOK
AU  - Butts, Aaron Michael and Young, Robin Darling
TI  - Syriac Christian Culture: Beginnings to Renaissance
SN  - 9780813233680
U1  - J27 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - The Catholic University of America Press
N1  - 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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