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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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A Dictionary: Christian Sogdian, Syriac and English

, 2016
Many works of Syriac literature, including some now lost, were translated into Sogdian, a language of the Iranian family. This Dictionary makes the whole material accessible to both Iranists and Syriacists, giving a full semantic and morphological ...
Sims-Williams, Nicholas
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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. Филология
The 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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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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Syriac

, 2017
This chapter presents a sketch of early Syriac literature during the Roman/Byzantine period, before the Arab conquests. Although its beginnings were pre-Christian, the bulk of Syriac writings is made up of typically Christian compositions, belonging ...
Witold Witakowski
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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Moving Syriac Literature into the Digital Age

, 2022
The mother tongue of Jesus and his disciples was not Greek or Latin or even Hebrew, but Aramaic, the language of Israel’s Babylonian captors. Aramaic, and in particular the dialect of Syriac, has continued to be spoken by many Christians in the Middle ...
Griffin, Carl
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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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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’

German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 311-322, July 2026.
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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“Embedded” stories: on one literary device in the Syriac memre [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология
In 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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