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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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Word Translating Image. In Search of Modern-Language Equivalents for Syriac and Coptic Terminology

Folia Orientalia
In general the iconographic details recorded in the hagiographic literature are pretty meagre. Authors focus on the miraculous properties of icons. The Coptic lives of the saints may be selected as representative for the Early Christian and Byzantine ...
Tomasz Polański
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Apokryficzny "Dialogus Iohannis cum Iesu" (CApNT 27) jako gnostycka reinterpretacja dziejów patriarchów i komentarz do Hbr 7, 3

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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The letter of Mara bar Serapion: the “puzzle” from the Late Antiquity [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология
This article is devoted to the study of an important Syriac work, the letter of Mara bar Serapion. Using the methods of literary and rhetorical analysis, the author examines the content and the form of one of the series of paradigms presented in the text,
Sofia Fomicheva
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My Friend the Cross: Cross-Directed Prayer in Seventh-Century Monastic Communities and New Media Studies

Religions
While scholars have long recognized the central importance of the cross within Syriac-speaking Christian communities in late antique Mesopotamia, the question of how physical crosses functioned as aids for prayer has only recently begun to be explored ...
Daniel An
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Medieval and Post-Medieval Traditions of Salome’s Icy Death

Religions
Although the figure of Salome has received much attention from artists and critics alike in the last century and a half, the sources of the legend of her death by ice remain little known.
Zbigniew Izydorczyk
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Peccata Lectionis—Understanding and Misunderstanding Scripture in Aphrahat the Persian Sage’s Demonstrations (4th Century)

Religions
In this paper, I focus on a major corpus of the earliest Syrian Christian literature, Aphrahat the Persian Sage’s collection of epistles titled Demonstrations (Taḥwyātā; early 4th century), in order to gauge his thoughts on the “sins of reading”, peccata
Miklós Vassányi
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Medical education in the first university of the world, the Jundishapur Academy. [PDF]

J Family Med Prim Care, 2022
Daneshfard B, Naseri M, Ghaffari F.
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The Epic of the Thalamus in Anatomical Language. [PDF]

Front Neuroanat, 2021
García-Cabezas MÁ, Pérez-Santos I, Cavada C.   +2 more
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Secularism as a Project of Free and Equal Citizenship: Reflections on the Turkish Case. [PDF]

Front Sociol, 2022
Gülalp H.
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