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The Fire of Love and the Salvation of All: Syriac Visions of Eternal Hope [PDF]
EonThis study investigates the theme of universal salvation in the Syriac tradition by analyzing the theological and literary writings of three representative authors: Bardaisan of Edessa, Ephrem the Syrian and Isaac the Syrian.
Alexandru LAZĂR
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Christians, Jews, and Magic in the Sasanian Realm: Between Confrontation and Cooperation
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2022 This essay focuses on one particular aspect of Jewish-Christian relations during the Sasanian period, namely various types of interaction between the two religious groups in the domain of magic.
Sergey Minov
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Mythos, 2018 The long discussion about the text of the Testimonium Flavianum has not entered the home stretch by a long shot. Critics are divided on the authenticity or not of this important proof regarding the origin of Christianity.
Giuseppe Petrantoni
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The Study and Analysis of the Role of Ancient Iranians in the Expansion of Asian Religions in China [PDF]
Comparative Theology, 2020 One of the most important aspects of the relationship between Iran and China in ancient times is religion that has so far not been addressed independently.
Hamidreza Pasha Zanous
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„Narody zamiast narodu”. Afrahata polemika z judaizmem
Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny, 2015 Aphrahat, called the Persian Sage, was a Syriac-Christian of the 3-rd / 4-th century from Adiabene region of Persian Empire. He is an author of twenty-three sermons called Demonstrationes (sometimes also Homiliae).
Mariusz Rosik
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ReligionsThe historical evolution of two designations for East Syriac Christians in China—taso (達娑, including its variants) and erke’ün (也里可溫)—from the Tang to the Yuan dynasty is examined.
Xue Yang, Tursunjan Imin
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East-Aramaic origin of Gnosticism in the light of West-Aramaic Christian tradition [PDF]
SCHOLE, 2008 In this comparative study Eugene Rodin (Tula State Pedagogical University) tries to develop an objective (linguistic) approach to analysis of the Gnostic tradition in the light of Christianity. He highlights some lexical and syntactic differences between
Rodin, Eugene
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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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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Reception to the Antiochene tradition by East Syrians: monasteries vs. Schools [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2019 As is known, from the 5th to early 7th centuries, the Church of the East, which existed in Sasanian Iran, was adopting the Christological teaching of the School of Antioch.
Evgenii Zabolotnyi
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