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Cannibal Maria in the Siege of Jerusalem: New approaches
Religion Compass, Volume 17, Issue 12, December 2023., 2023 Abstract This essay traces the far‐reaching legend of Maria/Miriam of Bethezuba, sometimes called Mary, Marie, or Marion, a starving Jewish woman who (according to Flavius Josephus's The Jewish War) ate her own baby during the 70 CE Roman Siege of Jerusalem.
Mo Pareles
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A lineage in land: the transmission of Palestinian Christianity
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 670-691, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines a Christian tradition defined by descent, but a descent that extends beyond family lineages to include relatedness with saints and sacred land. This tradition emerges from the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, one of the oldest churches in the world, composed of a Palestinian laity and a Greek monastic hierarchy ...
Clayton Goodgame
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Molecular Genetics &Genomic Medicine, Volume 11, Issue 4, April 2023., 2023 This study assesses the degree of genetic substructure in the Lebanese population, which is known to have high rates of endogamy and consanguinity. F parameters were analyzed to assess degree of coancestry and provide local/regional laboratories with data that can help minimize misinterpretations of DNA forensic and kinship cases.
Ansar El Andari +2 more
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The “Brilliant Teaching”: Iranian Christians in Tang China and Their Identity
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2020 The last three decades or so have seen an increasing interest in the early history of Christianity in China, particularly in Christian communities in the Tang period.
Max Deeg
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On Ideas in Motion in Baghdad and Beyond [PDF]
, 2018 Note on Damien Janos (ed.), Ideas in Motion in Baghdad and Beyond. Philosophical and Theological Exchanges between Christians and Muslims in the Third/Ninth and Fourth/Tenth Centuries, (Islamic History and Civilization.
Martini, Cecilia
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From Cosmopolitan to Vernacular in the Language Sciences: A Global History Perspective
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 18-37, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Sheldon Pollock's justly famous work on cosmopolitan orders and processes of vernacularization in the worlds of Latinity and Sanskrit invites questions of a comparative and global‐historical character. I will raise such questions in the context of the Persianate cosmopolitan order, especially as exemplified by the early modern Ottoman Empire ...
Michiel Leezenberg
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Al-'Usur al-Wusta, 2018 Muriel Debié’s L’écriture de l’histoire en syriaque represents the consolidation of a recent dam-burst in the study of a long neglected aspect of the pre-modern Middle East. It is nothing less than a compendium of historical writing in Syriac in the late
Peter Brown
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Recent developments in New Testament textual criticism [PDF]
, 2011 This is a preprint version of an article published in Early Christianity 2.2 (2011). \ud \ud The article provides an overview of recent developments in New Testament Textual Criticism.
Houghton, H.A.G.
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Syriac Jacobite and Coptic Churches as representatives of Eastern christianity
Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2018 The article deals with analysis of the formation and historical significance of two traditions in Eastern Christianity, which emerged as a result of the rejection of theological decisions of the Chalcedon Ecumenical Council, that means, they adopted into
Oksana Tarasivna Shepetyak
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Al-'Usur al-Wusta, 2020 Stylites (esṭūnōrē) represented a major form of eremitism in late antique and early Islamic Syria and Mesopotamia. As archetypes of the Holy Man described by Peter Brown, they were in close contact with rural populations (pagani) and therefore promoted ...
Simon Pierre
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