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Cannibal Maria in the Siege of Jerusalem: New approaches
Religion Compass, Volume 17, Issue 12, December 2023., 2023 Abstract This essay traces the far‐reaching legend of Maria/Miriam of Bethezuba, sometimes called Mary, Marie, or Marion, a starving Jewish woman who (according to Flavius Josephus's The Jewish War) ate her own baby during the 70 CE Roman Siege of Jerusalem.
Mo Pareles
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A lineage in land: the transmission of Palestinian Christianity
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 670-691, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines a Christian tradition defined by descent, but a descent that extends beyond family lineages to include relatedness with saints and sacred land. This tradition emerges from the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, one of the oldest churches in the world, composed of a Palestinian laity and a Greek monastic hierarchy ...
Clayton Goodgame
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Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2018 A Sureth (Christian North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic) version of an East-Syriac hymn on Simon Magus and Simon Peter in Rome and its late Classical Syriac Vorlage are here published for the first time. The text is part of a small group of hymns on Peter and Rome
Alessandro Mengozzi
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On Ideas in Motion in Baghdad and Beyond [PDF]
, 2018 Note on Damien Janos (ed.), Ideas in Motion in Baghdad and Beyond. Philosophical and Theological Exchanges between Christians and Muslims in the Third/Ninth and Fourth/Tenth Centuries, (Islamic History and Civilization.
Martini, Cecilia
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Ethno-cultural and Religious Identity of Syrian Orthodox Christians [PDF]
, 2009 Many Middle Eastern Christian groups identify or have been identified with preIslamic peoples in the Middle East: the Copts with Ancient Egypt, the Nestorians with Assyria, the Maronites with Phoenicians and some RumOrthodoxand other Christians with pre
Donabed, Sargon, Mako, Shamiran
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Open Linguistics, 2015 Based on a corpus coming from the Turfan oasis (in present-day Xinjiang, People’s Republic of China) and consisting of Christian Middle Iranian literature in several languages (Middle Persian, Syriac and Sogdian) and scripts (East Syriac, Pahlavi and ...
Barbati Chiara
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Aethiopica, 2022 This contribution discusses Ralph Lee’s volume Symbolic Interpretations in Ethiopic and Early Syriac Literature, in particular his proposal about what were the channels of cultural transmission between Syriac and Ethiopic Christian literatures which ...
Alberto
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Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2011 Khamis bar Qardaḥe was an East Syrian author active in the last decades of the 13th century, probably a representative member of the East-Syrian community at the court camp of the Il-Khans, and somehow connected with the town of Arbela.
Alessandra Barotto +3 more
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Chrześcijaństwo syryjskie w starożytnościw kontekście powstawania Gemary babilońskiej [PDF]
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2012 The babylonian judaism, that has formed the babylonian gemara to the mishnah, came into contact mainly with the syriac christianity. The syriac language, which were used there belongs with mandaic and aramaic of the babylonian ...
Andrzej Mrozek
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Vox Patrum, 2012 Classical oriental literatures, especially in Syriac, Arabic and Coptic languages, constitute extraordinary treasury for patristic studies. Apart from the texts written originally in their ecclesiastical ambient, the oriental ancient manuscripts ...
Rafał Zarzeczny
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