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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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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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From Cosmopolitan to Vernacular in the Language Sciences: A Global History Perspective
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 18-37, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Sheldon Pollock's justly famous work on cosmopolitan orders and processes of vernacularization in the worlds of Latinity and Sanskrit invites questions of a comparative and global‐historical character. I will raise such questions in the context of the Persianate cosmopolitan order, especially as exemplified by the early modern Ottoman Empire ...
Michiel Leezenberg
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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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Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 295-310, January 2023., 2023 Abstract This article contributes to the growing scholarship on minority politics in the Middle East by arguing that if minorities are socially or politically constructed then the meaning and implications of minority terminology requires greater historical contextualisation.
Elizabeth Monier
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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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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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From manuscript catalogues to a handbook of Syriac literature: Modeling an infrastructure for Syriaca.org [PDF]
, 2016 Despite increasing interest in Syriac studies and growing digital availability of Syriac texts, there is currently no up-to-date infrastructure for discovering, identifying, classifying, and referencing works of Syriac literature.
Gibson, Nathan P. +2 more
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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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