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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. 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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The Judeo‐Islamic God

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
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“Inclination” (yaṣrā) in the Syriac tradition [PDF]

, 2021
The Syriac term yaṣrā, “inclination,” “urge,” “wilfulness,” and its use in Syriac texts, has not until recently been the subject of any detailed study, and this is perhaps surprising not only because of its interest for an understanding of early Syriac ...
Taylor, Dgk
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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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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 13-26, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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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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Between Two Worlds: Cultural Bereavement, Intersubjective Memory and the Politics of Identity in the Lebanese American Immigrant Experience

Journal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 5, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper draws on oral history interviews conducted in 2025 with Lebanese and Arab American immigrants and their descendants, archived at the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies (GR0020, NC State University), to develop a cultural‐psychological framework for understanding the psychic dimensions of migration without ...
Anastasia Christou
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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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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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