Invitation to Syriac Christianity : an anthology / edited by Michael Philip Penn, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Christine Shepardson, Charles M. Stang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Penn, Michael Philip, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Church history.

Syriac Christians--Translations into English.

Syriac Christians.

Syriac Christians--History--Early works to 1800.

Syriac Christians--History--To 1500--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (627 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2022.

Summary:

Despite their centrality to the history of Christianity in the East, Syriac Christians have generally been excluded from modern accounts of the faith. Originating from Mesopotamia, Syriac Christians quickly spread across Eurasia, from Turkey to China, developing a distinctive and influential form of Christianity that connected empires. These early Christians wrote in the language of Syriac, the lingua franca of the late ancient Middle East, and a dialect of Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Collecting key foundational Syriac texts from the second to the fourteenth centuries, this anthology provides unique access to one of the most intriguing, but least known, branches of the Christian tradition.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Nomenclature

Maps

Introduction

PART I. FOUNDATIONS

1. Origin Stories

2. Poetry

3. Doctrine and Disputation

PART II. PRACTICES

4. Liturgy

5. Asceticism

6. Mysticism and Prayer

PART III. TEXTS AND TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION

7. Biblical Interpretation

8. Hagiography

9. Books, Knowledge, and Translation

PART IV. INTERRELIGIOUS ENCOUNTERS

10. Judaism

11. Islam

12. Religions of the Silk Road

Appendix A. Translations and Editions

Appendix B. Biographies of Named Authors

Appendix C. Glossary

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Penn, Michael Philip Invitation to Syriac Christianity

ISBN:

9780520971035

0520971035

OCLC:

1260171143