.... One sees a similar pattern emerge in the the Rabbinic Mishnah, which introduces a dissenting view at a critical juncture to disrupt the dominant paradigm. Late antique Syriac poetry builds on the nascent anxiety of the Protevangelium in verses that closely resemble the themes and the stories...

... Valentinian Emperor Barnes T D Eunomius of Cyzicus Gratian Emperor King R Q Matthews J Photinus of Sirmium Socrates Kopecek T A Schwartz E Timothy of Alexandria Williams D H ὅμοιος κατ’ οὐσίαν Basil of Caesarea Ephrem the Syrian Eustathius of Sebaste Macedonians pro-Nicene Syriac Theodosius...

... Sophronius Ahl al dhimma Church of the Resurrection Kitabiyun Funkenstein Amos Angels Place Arabic Judeo-Arabic Hebrew Syriac Caliphate Shari'ah Ahl al-Dhimma Ahl al-Kitab The collection and transmission of narratives about the emergence of Islam and the links between the new religion...

...This article examines the reception of Neo-Ashʿarite theology during the Renaissance of Syriac and Copto-Arabic literature. It first looks at the so-called ‘Syriac Renaissance’ of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and the ‘Renaissance of Copto-Arabic literature’ of the thirteenth and fourteenth...

...During late antiquity, Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic, belonging to the northwest group of Semitic languages, and originally the language of the Kingdom of Edessa and the Oshroene in Upper Mesopotamia, became the literary language of Aramaic-speaking Christians and developed under the mutual...

... now been discredited from various directions. The question, therefore, of the dating of Maximus’ earliest works is once again open to discussion. Taking the Syriac Lifeas the principal source for Maximus’ life, we place his works within a secure historical context, as well as take...

... Continual prayer. This chapter surveys the Syriac biblical texts available to Syriac authors and readers, drawing attention to certain basic assumptions. Then the exegetical approaches of each of three main literary genres, commentaries, homilies, and poetry and liturgy, are set out. In the section...

...This essay presents the first Syriac translation of the Dionysian corpus, which was made in the early sixth century by Sergius, the priest and physician-in-chief of the city of Resh‘ayna. This translation is crucial in many respects: the only manuscript that transmits it (Sinai Saint Catherine Syr...

... India Jākata tales motifs Planet of the Apes 2011 Tripitika Arab culture Arabian Nights Bodhisattva Chaucer Geoffrey Fontaine Jean de la Hebrew Japan Kang Senghui Korea Latin Mongolia Persia “Sumsumāra jakata ” Syriac Tibet vernacular fiction Wife of Bath Black Death Boccaccio...

...This book reconsiders the history of Christianity in the fourth century by analyzing narratives about Constantine and the Christians of Persia. Drawing on a range of Greek, Latin, and Syriac sources, it argues that there was not, and never has been, just one history of fourth-century Mesopotamia...

...This chapter examines the History of Blessed Simeon bar Sabba'e and two other texts from among the Syriac Acts of the Persian Martyrs: the Martyrdom of the Captives of Beth Zabdai and the Martyrdom of Pusai-Qarugbed. All three...

...The letter collection of Evagrius of Pontus has an idiosyncratic history. Only fragments of the original Greek collection survive, but 62 letters have been preserved in their Syriac translation in relatively few manuscripts. The letters’ exclusive focus on the idiosyncrasies and hardships...

...Chapter 2 focuses on Södertälje during the 1970s, when Syriacs moved to its empty Million Program neighborhoods, where Syriacs resumed their historical pattern of protective enclaves. They adapted welfare-state spaces but retained their forms and functions, suggesting that modernist design...

...Chapter 4 focuses on both permanent spaces and temporary spatial practices associated with weddings and funerals. Urban spaces have become backdrops for a roleplaying game with an ever-attentive audience, as Syriacs metamorphose between audience members and stage actors and continually reinscribe...

...Chapter 5 analyzes several new and controversial Syriac-dominated neighborhoods of custom-designed and formally elaborate single-family houses that majority Swedish planners regard as cautionary tales of too-flexible planning regulations. Syriac architectural displays of difference in affluent...

...The Conclusion zeroes in on “urban design from below” as the aggregate result of the Syriacs’ discrete projects. This phenomenon functions as a space between the “top-down” official designs and plans and the “bottom-up” forms of community activism without an effect on the form...

...This article discusses the history of Syriac and Syrians in Late Antiquity. It reveals the complex and contradictory ways that Syriac-speakers invented and re-invented their own history. The local history of the city of Edessa was closely tied to the prestige the city had earned in Eusebius' use...

... Catholic and Protestant contexts, the debates over the extra texts continued into the modern period. Western readers who are somewhat familiar with the idea of “Apocrypha” are still generally unfamiliar with the texts canonized within the eastern canons—the Ethiopic, Syriac (Peshitta), Armenian, and Coptic...

...Poetry has always played a very important role in the history of Syriac literature, and even today, collections of poems by contemporary authors continue to appear. Verse can often also serve as the vehicle for instruction, the most notable example of which is the thirteenth-century polymath Bar...

... Syriac readers. It investigates why little attention has been paid to the topic of Syriac monastic readers over the past two centuries of Western scholarship on Syriac texts. This chapter finds an answer through a case study of the descriptions of the Syriac manuscript collection at the British Museum...