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Book L Orient Syrien

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1956
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 109 pages

Download or read book L Orient Syrien written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early Syriac Theology

Download or read book Early Syriac Theology written by Seely J. Beggiani and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the insights of St. Ephrem and Jacob of Serugh, two of the earliest representatives of the theological world-view of the Syriac church.

Book Ephrem the Syrian

    Book Details:
  • Author : Saint Ephraem (Syrus)
  • Publisher : Paulist Press
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780809130931
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book Ephrem the Syrian written by Saint Ephraem (Syrus) and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume is a translation of a collection of hymns of Christ, composed by Ephrem the Syrian (c. 306-373), the most famous and prolific of the Fathers of the Syriac-speaking Church.

Book The Imam of the Christians

Download or read book The Imam of the Christians written by Philip Wood and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Christian leaders adapted the governmental practices and political thought of their Muslim rulers in the Abbasid caliphate The Imam of the Christians examines how Christian leaders adopted and adapted the political practices and ideas of their Muslim rulers between 750 and 850 in the Abbasid caliphate in the Jazira (modern eastern Turkey and northern Syria). Focusing on the writings of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, the patriarch of the Jacobite church, Philip Wood describes how this encounter produced an Islamicate Christianity that differed from the Christianities of Byzantium and western Europe in far more than just theology. In doing so, Wood opens a new window on the world of early Islam and Muslims’ interactions with other religious communities. Wood shows how Dionysius and other Christian clerics, by forging close ties with Muslim elites, were able to command greater power over their coreligionists, such as the right to issue canons regulating the lives of lay people, gather tithes, and use state troops to arrest opponents. In his writings, Dionysius advertises his ease in the courts of ʿAbd Allah ibn Tahir in Raqqa and the caliph al-Ma’mun in Baghdad, presenting himself as an effective advocate for the interests of his fellow Christians because of his knowledge of Arabic and his ability to redeploy Islamic ideas to his own advantage. Strikingly, Dionysius even claims that, like al-Ma’mun, he is an imam since he leads his people in prayer and rules them by popular consent. A wide-ranging examination of Middle Eastern Christian life during a critical period in the development of Islam, The Imam of the Christians is also a case study of the surprising workings of cultural and religious adaptation.

Book To Train His Soul in Books

Download or read book To Train His Soul in Books written by Robin Darling Young and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Train His Soul in Books explores numerous aspects of this rich religious culture, extending previous lines of scholarly investigation and demonstrating the activity of Syriac-speaking scribes and translators busy assembling books for the training of biblical interpreters, ascetics, and learned clergy.

Book The Monuments of Syria

Download or read book The Monuments of Syria written by Ross Burns and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guidebook to Syria's historical and archeological treasures. It is a new, revised and expanded edition in a travel-friendly format. Syria is home to some of the world's richest historical and archaeological remains dating from the Bronze Age through biblical and Byzantine times to the early Islamic and Ottoman periods. Yet even in an age of mass tourism these magnificent monuments are little known and rarely visited - in other words, ripe for discovery by independent-minded and adventurous travellers."The Monuments of Syria" is organised as a gazetteer of all Syria's historical sites, with complementary sections on history and architectural influences and comprehensive chronologies and glossaries. This fully revised edition includes the latest information about site visits and the layout of museums, extensive and detailed itineraries for further travel and a new 24-page colour section.

Book The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 226 363

Download or read book The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 226 363 written by Michael H. Dodgeon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crisis of the third century saw Rome not only embroiled in contests of succeeding short-lived Emperors, but assailed by an increasing variety of hostile peoples from outside its frontiers. Owing to the complex racial interplay of this period, the sources for its history have to be compiled from a wide variety of sources. The least adequate are those in Latin, the imperial lives of the Historia Augusta . These have to be supplemented by the Greek chronicles of Zosimus and John Malalas of Antioch, as well as the Armenian history of Moses of Chorene, the Arabic History of the Arabs of Al-Tabari , as well as inscriptions in Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Syrian and other languages. This volume collects these diverse sources for the first time in English translation, and will be a uniquely valuable resource for scholars working on a period of Roman history that is attracting increasing attention.

Book Introduction to Eastern Christian Liturgies

Download or read book Introduction to Eastern Christian Liturgies written by Maxwell E. Johnson and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2022-02-05 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Introduction to Eastern Christian Liturgies, renowned liturgical scholars Stefanos Alexopoulos and Maxwell E. Johnson fulfill the need for a new, comprehensive, and straightforward survey of the liturgical life of the Eastern Christian Churches within the seven distinct liturgical Eastern rites still in existence today: Armenian, Byzantine, Coptic, Ethiopic, East Syrian, West Syrian, and Maronite. This topical overview covers baptism, chrismation, Eucharist, reconciliation, anointing, marriage, holy orders, burial, Liturgy of the Hours, the liturgical year, liturgical ethos and spirituality, and offers a brief yet comprehensive bibliography for further study. This book will be of special interest to masters-level students in liturgy and theology, pastoral ministers seeking an introduction to the liturgies of the Christian East, and all who seek to increase their knowledge of the liturgical riches of the Christian East.

Book Kaf H    1940 1965

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  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2022-07-04
  • ISBN : 9004497099
  • Pages : 437 pages

Download or read book Kaf H 1940 1965 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Architecture and Liturgy of the Bema in Fourth  to Sixth Century Syrian Churches

Download or read book The Architecture and Liturgy of the Bema in Fourth to Sixth Century Syrian Churches written by Emma Loosley and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In fourth to sixth century Syria a nave-platform known as the Bema became popular in some regions before mysteriously disappearing; this study seeks to explain how these bemata functioned and which elements led to their decline.

Book Pseudo Dionysius as Polemicist

Download or read book Pseudo Dionysius as Polemicist written by Rosemary A. Arthur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anonymous theologian known as Pseudo-Dionysius, who was responsible for arranging the angelic hierarchy into nine orders, had a significant influence on mediaeval European mysticism. This book places him in his religious and political context in sixth century Syria, and uncovers the hidden agenda which lies behind his writings. New evidence is presented to establish the dating of the corpus more accurately than has been done before. Rather than analysing the minutiae of Dionysius' thought, Rosemary Arthur focuses on his sources for, and treatment of, the Angelic Hierarchy and the Dazzling Darkness, with a view to ascertaining his motive for writing, his relationship with his opponents and his need to hide his identity.

Book The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography

Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography written by Stephanos Efthymiadis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For an entire millennium, Byzantine hagiography, inspired by the veneration of many saints, exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms. The subgenres into which it branched out after its remarkable start in the fourth century underwent alternating phases of development and decline that were intertwined with changes in the political, social and literary spheres. The selection of saintly heroes, an interest in depicting social landscapes, and the modulation of linguistic and stylistic registers captured the voice of homo byzantinus down to the end of the empire in the fifteenth century. The seventeen chapters in this companion form the sequel to those in volume I which dealt with the periods and regions of Byzantine hagiography, and complete the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. The book is the work of an international group of experts in the field and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists, medievalists, historians of religion and theorists of narrative. It highlights the literary dimension and the research potential of a representative number of texts, not only those appreciated by the Byzantines themselves but those which modern readers rank high due to their literary quality or historical relevance.

Book Holy Women of the Syrian Orient

Download or read book Holy Women of the Syrian Orient written by Sebastian P. Brock and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-08-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteen hagiographies about holy women of the Syrian Orient collected here include stories of martyrs' passions and saints' lives, pious romances and personal reminiscences. Dating from the fourth to seventh centuries A.D., they are translated from Syriac into accessible and vivid prose. Annotations and source notes by the translators help clarify elements that may be unfamiliar to some readers. This collection bears witness to the profound contributions women made to early Chistianity: their various roles, their leadership inside and outside the church structure, and their power to influence others. A new preface discusses recent developments in the field and updates the bibliography.

Book Roman Syria and the Near East

Download or read book Roman Syria and the Near East written by Kevin Butcher and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Book The Discourses of Philoxenos of Mabbug

Download or read book The Discourses of Philoxenos of Mabbug written by and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirteen Discourses of Philoxenos of Mabbug (445-523) were delivered to new monks at a monastery under his episcopal care. Written in elegant Syriac, the Discourses deal with the fundamentals of the monastic and ascetic life-faith, simplicity, fear of God, renunciation, and the struggle against the demons of gluttony and fornication. This is Philoxenos's longest work and his most popular. It avoids the strident character of his letters and commentaries that were composed to advance the anti-Chalcedonian movement. This is the first English translation of an important Syriac text since the 1894 translation, now difficult to find. The introduction to this translation of the Discourses takes into account the scholarly work done and the books and articles published about Philoxenos in the past half century. There are no other titles in English that deal with the Discourses in this depth.

Book Eastern Christianity in the Modern Middle East

Download or read book Eastern Christianity in the Modern Middle East written by Anthony O'Mahony and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle East is the birthplace of Christianity and the home to a number of Eastern Churches with millions of followers. This book provides a comprehensive survey of the various denominations in the modern Middle East and will be of interest to a wide variety of scholars and students studying theology, history and politics.