Download or read book Visits of Gertrude Bell to Tur Abdin written by Dale A. Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-06-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of summaries, diary entries and letters from the famed British explorer, Gertrude Bell who later went on to become an adviser to Winston Churchill and founded the Baghdad Archeology Museum. The focus of the book is on her contribution to the photographic and archeological record she made of a region of forgotten Christians, called Tur Abdin in present day Turkey, who had preserved the language of Jesus and a Semitic form of Christianity under the veil of Islam.
Download or read book Treasures of Tur abdin written by Dale Albert Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a land east of the Euphrates River, on the northern reaches of the Tigris is an ancient Christian land called Tur'abdin: the Mountain of the Servants. In the fourth century after Christ, a Christian civilization rose up and created masterpieces of art and culture. This book presents a few samples of the many treasures crafted by monks who dedicated their lives to God.
Download or read book The Churches and Monasteries of the ur Abdin written by Gertrude Lowthian Bell and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tur 'Abdin is a mountainous region in the south-east of modern Turkey, and is architecturally one of the most interesting areas for the study of early Christian architecture. In two journeys into the Tur 'Abdin early in this century, Gertrude Bell examined the more important monastic sites. Her two reports on these journeys, published in 1910 and 1913, made available for the first time a full study of the Christian architecture of the region, and her photographs are particularly valuable since many of the churches have since been destroyed or suffered considerable damage. In the present volume these two seminal studies are reprinted, with the addition of over a hundred and twenty previously unpublished photographs of these monuments from the Bell archive. Gertrude Bell's text is printed as originally published, but has been up-dated by Marlia Mundell Mango with extensive notes which draw attention to subsequent work. The editor has also added an extensive Catalogue of sites and monuments visited by Bell in and around the Tur 'Abdin; this provides an alphabetical gazetteer to all of the sites mentioned in Bell's text, and supplies information about other sites and monuments visited by Bell, but of which she did not publish her photographs. The entries in this sixty-page Catalogue give the relevant information from Bell's published work for each monument; a bibliography of other work on it; building dates from inscriptions and texts; changes to the monument since visited by Bell; and a short summary of publications on the monument. Marlia Mundell Mango has also added a short glossary; a list of dated monuments in the region from A.D. 200-1500; an administrative list of provinces, metropolitan bishoprics and bishoprics covering the ecclesiastical administration of the region in late antiquity; a detailed map which incorporates most of this new information; a bibliography with a survey of archaeological and historical work on the Christian monuments of northern Mesopotamia and a total of 256 of Bell's plates, of which 128 are published here for the first time.
Download or read book A Woman in Arabia written by Gertrude Bell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the PBS documentary Letters from Baghdad, voiced by Tilda Swinton, and the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson and directed by Werner Herzog Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg. One of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century, she turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford and travel the world, and became the chief architect of British policy in the Middle East after World War I. Mountaineer, archaeologist, Arabist, writer, poet, linguist, and spy, she dedicated her life to championing the Arab cause and was instrumental in drawing the borders that define today’s Middle East. As she wrote in one of her letters, “It’s a bore being a woman when you are in Arabia.” Forthright and spirited, opinionated and playful, and deeply instructive about the Arab world, this volume brings together Bell’s letters, military dispatches, diary entries, and travel writings to offer an intimate look at a woman who shaped nations. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book Lost Churches on the Silk Road written by Dale A. Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the commemorative edition for the 4th International Conference on the Church of the East in China. This is a collection of essays used as background research to seek and find the lost churches of the Silk Road. The author has used the "Da Qin Jing Jiao" Stone to provide clues for searching for the reported churches and monasteries that we built during the Tang dynasty. For later periods material from Mogao and other artifacts have been used in the investigation.
Download or read book Barhanna Monographs Volume 2 written by Dale A. Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a series of monographs related to the Language of Jesus and the author's search for the lost churches in China.
Download or read book Deadskin Investigations written by Dale Albert Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-09-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly forty years I have been chasing this object of love, Syriac manuscripts, because for me this is the most engaging way to enter into the romance and experience the source of love itself: God in the form of Jesus the Messiah. It is not for everyone. In fact it is a path for very few. It is a lot of hard work learning the languages and traveling to and living in to remote and difficult places in search of these manuscripts.
Download or read book Winds of Jingjiao written by Li Tang and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2016 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early as AD 781, the writer of the Xi'an Fu inscription described the spread of Syriac Christianity (called Jingjiao in Chinese) to China as a wind blowing eastward. The discovery of the Xi'an Fu Stele, the Dunhuang Jingjiao Manuscripts, the numerous Syriac tombstones and fragments in Central Asia and many parts of China has unearthed a buried history of Syriac Christianity from the Tang Dynasty to the time of the Mongol Empire. The papers in this volume cover a wide range of topics from manuscripts and inscription, to the historical, liturgical and theological perspectives of Syriac Christianity in this geographic realm. Li Tang is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Biblical Studies and Ecclesiastical History, University of Salzburg.. Dietmar W. Winkler is Professor of Patristic Studies and Ecclesiastical History at the University of Salzburg and Director of the Center for the Study of Eastern Christianity (ZECO) of the University of Salzburg. (Series: Orientalia - Patristica - Oecumenica, Vol. 9) [Subject: Religious Studies, History, Syriac Christianity, Chinese Studies]Ã?Â?
Download or read book The Mysterious Mr Jacob written by John Zubrzycki and published by Transit Lounge . This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a scandal that rocked the highest echelons of the British Raj. In 1891, a notorious jeweller and curio dealer from Simla offered to sell the world's largest brilliant-cut diamond to the fabulously wealthy Nizam of Hyderabad. If the audacious deal succeeded it would set the merchant up for life. But the transaction went horribly wrong. The Nizam accused him of fraud, triggering a sensational trial in the Calcutta High Court that made headlines around the world...
Download or read book A Rule for Life written by Dale A. lbert Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revision of a monastic Rule adapted to the 21st century.
Download or read book New Gunner Wales Adventures written by Dale Albert Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gunner Wales is back again on three more adventures with his friend Illinois Johnson, his nephew Taylor Wales, and with a group of intellectual monks.
Download or read book The Adventures of Gunner Wales written by Dale Albert Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the latest collection of a series of short stories featuring an eccentric, polymath, detective expat who solves international crimes mostly based in modern day China. Spiritual thrillers in the style of Charles Williams.
Download or read book The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes written by Bleda S. Düring and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the poorly understood transformations in rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of ancient empires.
Download or read book The Omega Virus written by Dale Albert Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Refugee written by Dale Albert Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blood Quest written by Dale Albert Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a brief history of the life and times of William A. Baillie Grohman, 19th century pioneer Austrian immigrant to the Pacific Northwest who envisioned digging a canal linking the Columbia River to tributares of the the Mississippi and thus create the fabled Northwest Passage.
Download or read book Dreams of the Pear Garden written by Dale A. Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-12-08 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a short story followed by two poems that illustrate the search for the foundations and roots of character and personal truth.
