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Matteo Ricci's Depictions of Alexander the Great in Late Ming China☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 227-244, April 2024.
Abstract This article primarily focuses on the origin, the earliest dissemination and the accommodation of European Alexander texts in imperial China by Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552–1610). After providing an overview of the Chinese Alexander traditions, it first examines the sources of inspiration for Ricci's choice of Alexander as the prominent ...
Yaliang Fu
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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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A Letter that Killeth: Gregory of Nyssa on How (Not) to Read Scripture, Platonically

Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 147-171, January 2024.
Abstract In this essay, I explore the emergence of multicolumn Bibles in late antiquity, with a particular emphasis on Origen's Hexapla and its use by Gregory of Nyssa. I contextualise Gregory's use of multicolumn Bibles within the Origenian tradition and show that, in this intellectual context, multicolumn Bibles functioned as hermeneutical rather ...
ISIDOROS C. KATSOS
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From the “Republic of Cousins” to foreign spouses: Transnational marriages in Türkiye

Sociology Compass, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2024.
Abstract Marriage in Türkiye, as in many societies, is of great importance in the reproduction of life, and the choice of a spouse often involves the intervention of families and society. Within this structure, it is seen that marriages usually occur between extended family members or the same ethnic/sectarian groups.
Ayla Deniz
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The Holy Spirit and religious experience in Christian literature c.90 - 200 ad [PDF]

, 1987
The thesis explores whether religious experience and the Spirit are linked in Christian literature between c90 and 200. Three spheres of religious experience were chosen as illustrations - a sense of being personally encountered/overwhelmed by the divine;
Morgan-Wynne, John Eifion
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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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Philosophy, Science, and Belles-lettres in Syriac and Christian Arabic Literature: A Gentle Introduction and Survey

, 2011
It might be assumed that the genres of Syriac and Christian Arabic literature are made up exclusively (or almost so) of sacred topics (Bible, commentary, liturgy, asceticism, hagiography, theology, etc.), the writers, scribes, and readers in these ...
McCollum, Adam C
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Jewish law and early Christian identity ::betrothal, marriage, and infidelity in the writings of Ephrem the Syrian /

, 2020
Ephrem, one of the earliest Syriac Christian writers, lived on the eastern outskirts of the Roman Empire during the fourth century. Although he wrote polemical works against Jews and pagans, and identified with post-Nicene Christianity, his writings are ...
Monnickendam, Yifat,
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Christian Literature in Arabic in the Early Islamic Period

, 2019
This article focuses on the rise of Christian literature in Arabic (8th-10th c.) in Palestino-Sinaitic area occurring alongside the spread of Islam in the same region and at the same time.
Pataridze, Tamar
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Rethinking the right to know and the case for restorative epistemic reparation

Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 728-745, Winter 2024.
Melanie Altanian
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