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“Oil, which shall not quit my head”: Jewish-Christian Interaction in Eleventh-century Baghdad
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2018 The last influential head of the Pumbadithan Academy in Baghdad, R. Hayya Gaʾon (939–1038), requested his Sicilian student R. Maṣliaḥ ben Eliah al-Baṣaq to inquire with the Nestorian Patriarch (Catholicos) about the Syriac definition of a word in Psalms
Yosaif Dubovick
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Maronite-Catholic unity in the works of Maronite Patriarch Istifan ad-Duwayhi (1630–1704) [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. ФилологияThe current status of the Maronite Church as one of the main Christian denominations in the Republic of Lebanon is the result of the long intra-church processes and the intensive dialog between the Maronite and Roman Catholic Churches. The Maronite sect,
German Slutsky
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Case notes and clinicians : Galen's commentary on the Hippocratic epidemics in the Arabic tradition [PDF]
, 2008 Galen’s Commentaries on the Hippocratic Epidemics constitute one of the most detailed studies of Hippocratic medicine from Antiquity. The Arabic translation of the Commentaries by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (d. c. 873) is of crucial importance because it preserves
Pormann, Peter E.
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Les lieux de passage en Grande Syrie à la fin de l’Antiquité : l’apport des sources syriaques
Cahiers Mondes Anciens, 2013 Ever since the very early Antiquity, Syria has been an important land of passing. In late Antiquity, the expansion of the Roman Empire and the improvement of travelling conditions led to the increasing number of travellers.
Claire Fauchon
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The Magi in Ethiopic Tradition
Aethiopica, 2013 The paper traces various extra–biblical strains of tradition concerning the Magi (MT 2,1–12) in Geʿez literature. The Magi (mäsäggǝlan, säbʾa sägäl) are present in various Ethiopic compositions, both translated from other languages and original.
Witold Witakowski
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Harput, Turkey to Massachusetts: Immigration of Jacobite Christians [PDF]
, 2011 This essay falls into the category of rendering visible a community, the Jacobite Assyrians of Massachusetts, who have remained virtually unknown in the larger context of Middle Eastern Diaspora studies and American ethnic and cultural history.
Donabed, Sargon, Mako, Shamiran
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“Embedded” stories: on one literary device in the Syriac memre [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. ФилологияIn the article at the first time is analyzed a special literary device in the Syriac memre – the “embedded” stories. By this device the fictitious character, in turn, becomes the narrator.
Sofia Fomicheva
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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’
German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Vatican II's declaration on the Jews, absolving them from collective guilt of deicide, marked a significant turning point in Catholic theology. Arab governments tended to perceive this development as evidence that Catholics (or Christians generally) were taking the side of Zionist Jews in the Arab‐Israeli conflict.
Amir Krispel
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Vox Patrum, 2007 This article contains Polish translation and commentary to an apocryphal Gnostic text known as Dialogus Johannis cum Iesu (CApNT 27). The fragmental Coptic manuscript from the Deir el-Bala’izah collection (IV/V century A.D.) is the unique known ...
Rafał Zarzeczny
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