The 4,000-page Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana is described as "e;the first and best encyclopedia for the study of early Syriac Christian literature"e; by the Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity.
In traditional societies, ancestry is an important organising principle, often determining the lives of individuals or groups from the moment that they are born.
An English translation of the Daily Offices of the East Syriac rite, used today by the Assyrian Church of the East, the Chaldean Church, and the Syro-Malabar Church.
Addressing the complex social fabric of Indian society, this book explores its history, marked by enduring conflicts between Brahmanic and Un-Brahmanic forces that have shaped its ideological and philosophical traditions.
This book unpacks the distinctive dynamics of public diplomacy between Saudi Arabia and the United States in the post 9/11 period by examining the "e;King Abdullah Scholarship Programme (KASP)"e;, launched in 2005, which has largely escaped academic scrutiny.
What if the greatest human containment zone in history isn't a myth, but a scientifically verifiable geological quarantine waiting to be rediscovered by modern orbital telemetry?
From Mimesis to Myth traces the transformation of a Greek account of the life of Cyprian of Carthage into the legendary tale of Cyprian of Antioch as a means of exploring how late antique Christian authors and audiences interpreted the fictional qualities of hagiographic narratives.
Through deeply personal chronicles, Deloise Woodard shares her journey of loving through pain, battling emotional exhaustion, rediscovering herself, and learning to trust God through life's silent battles.
Challenging conventional notions about the place of women in Muslim societies, the Bihishti Zewar (Heavenly Ornaments) gives life to the themes of religious and social reform that have too often been treated in the abstract.
Harris edits and translates into English an eighth-century Syriac version of the Gospel of the Twelve Apostles that belongs to a well-defined apocalyptic tradition.
Challenging conventional notions about the place of women in Muslim societies, the Bihishti Zewar (Heavenly Ornaments) gives life to the themes of religious and social reform that have too often been treated in the abstract.
Geroge Foot Moore's Christian Writers on Judaism is a fundamental work which majestically traverses nineteen centuries of Christian literature regarding the Jews.
Concilium reflexiona sobre las intersecciones entre la inteligencia artificial y la teología cristiana, identificando nuevas fronteras en este compromiso crucial de nuestro tiempo.
Feminist Antisemitism: An Intellectual History establishes the antipathy toward Jews that existed as the movement began and tracks how changes in feminist in groups and theories manifested in new, feminist inflected forms of antisemitic thinking.
Find transformation not in more religious activity but by deeper spiritual awakening through daily immersion in ScriptureWhile much of the New Testament concerns itself with the general spread of the gospel, James offers us something of an advanced course in discipleship.
Find transformation not in more religious activity but by deeper spiritual awakening through daily immersion in ScriptureWhile much of the New Testament concerns itself with the general spread of the gospel, James offers us something of an advanced course in discipleship.
This volume explores the formative theophanic patterns found in pseudepigraphical writings as 2 Enoch, Apocalypse of Abraham, and the Ladder of Jacob where the visual tradition of the divine Form and the aural tradition of the divine Name undergo their creative conflation and thus provide the rich conceptual soil for the subsequent elaborations prominent in later patristic and rabbinic traditions.
Cyriacus of Tagrit was patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch between 793 and 817 under the Abbasid Caliphate, a turbulent and divided period in the history of his church in the Middle East.
This volume argues for the pressing need to understand the role of religious beliefs, religious scholars, and religious centres in promoting welfare and social protection services for the strengthening of global social welfare systems.
In this book the Syriac texts along with translations of the tales of the martyrs are introduced by Professor Burkitt with a commentary focusing on the historicity of the different accounts.