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This volume surveys the 'Syriac world', the culture that grew up among the Syriac-speaking communities from th

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A comprehensive survey of Syriac Christianity from its origins in Hellenistic and ancient Near Eastern cultures to the p

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The earliest and largest corpus of Christian writings on Islam was written in the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Envisioning

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This volume contains the Syriac text of the anonymous historical work known as the "Chronicle of 1234," an imp

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This piece provides an introduction, translation and commentary to a previously unstudied lectionary text, which provide

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From the 6th century onwards, Syriac patristic florilegia – collections of Greek patristic excerpts in Syriac translatio

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This is an introduction, written in Syriac, to the Syriac versions of the Bible, with chapters on the manuscript traditi

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A comprehensive survey of Syriac Christianity over three thousand years Syriac is often referred to as the third main

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This volume is a translation into Arabic of the papers published as part of the Pro-Oriente ecumenical consultation betw

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The Syriac Orthodox Church experienced a revival of writing and theological insight during the 11th – 13th centuries kno

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