, 2019 This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores, inter alia, the strategy employed by Augustine in using Plato as a pseudo-prophet against later Platonists and explores ...
Emilsson, Eyjolfur +3 more
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History and Fiction in the Acts of Thomas: The State of the Question [PDF]
, 2008 The Acts of Thomas has not yet received as much attention as the Gospel associated with the same individual, and this is understandable. Current students of this early Christian work, however, are in danger of missing out on the discussions and differing
McGrath, James F
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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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Syriac Apocalyptic and the Body Politic: from Individual Salvation to the Fate of the State. Notes on Seventh Century Texts [PDF]
, 2012 One of the main goals of this paper is to comment on the eschatological notion of “end” as found in a Syriac apocalyptic text of the seventh century, the Syriac Apocalypse of Daniel (or Pseudo-Daniel), recently edited by Matthias Henze and the possible ...
Ubierna, Pablo
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Between typology and diachrony : some formal parallels in Hebrew and Maltese [PDF]
, 2007 Hebrew and Maltese are obliquely related members of the Semitic language family. Past comparative research inspired by Bible translation highlighted in atomistic fashion a number of common traits in these two languages.
Borg, Alexander
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Jewish Studies: Are They Ethnic? [PDF]
, 1989 The history of Jewish studies has not yet been written. Scholars engaged in this field, however, are beginning to subject it to searching analysis. Pertinent articles have appeared that offer two extreme positions on the development of Jewish studies ...
Adelman, Howard
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Un testigo arameo cristiano-palestinense olvidado de la Dormición de María en el Codex Climaci Rescriptus (CCR IV) [PDF]
, 2019 The Codex Climaci Rescriptus (CCR IV) contains a neglected text witness of the Dormition of Mary from the five-book cycle or “palm narrative”. It is one of the very early transmissions of this apocryphal text in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (5th/6th ...
Müller-Kessler, Christa
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‘And there was born in Antioch a child with a single eye’ [PDF]
, 2013 En este trabajo nos ocupamos de una referencia en la Cronografía de Barhebreo sobre el nacimiento un niño con malformaciones físicas, su relación con las descripciones del Anticristo y la comparación con las versiones anteriores de esta leyenda recogidas
Monferrer-Sala, J.P.
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Learning from Jesus’ Wife: What Does Forgery Have to Do with the Digital Humanities? [PDF]
, 2019 McGrath’s chapter on the so-called Gospel of Jesus’ Wife sets aside as settled the question of the papyrus’ authenticity, and explores instead what we can learn about the Digital Humanities and scholarly interaction in a digital era from the way the ...
McGrath, James F
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Remarks on the Letter of the Patriarch Theophylact to Tsar Peter in the Context of Certain Byzantine and Slavic Anti-heretic Texts [PDF]
, 2013 Translated by Marek MajerThe Letter of patriarch Theophylact to tsar Peter is the oldest, but seemingly not the most informative Greek source for the history of Bogomilism.
Mintchev, Gueorgui
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