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THECLA IN SYRIAC CHRISTIANITY: PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS [PDF]
Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies, 2010 Lucas Van Rompay
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Hamsa, 2021 This paper analyzes the legal text called the Huddāyē composed in Syriac by the Syriac Orthodox polymath Barhebraeus (d. 1286) in regard to stipulations about baptism and burial.
Florian Jäckel
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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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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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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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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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Chrześcijaństwo syryjskie w starożytnościw kontekście powstawania Gemary babilońskiej [PDF]
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2012 The babylonian judaism, that has formed the babylonian gemara to the mishnah, came into contact mainly with the syriac christianity. The syriac language, which were used there belongs with mandaic and aramaic of the babylonian ...
Andrzej Mrozek
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