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Syriac Christian Culture : Beginnings to Renaissance by Aaron M. Butts (2020, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCatholic University of America Press
ISBN-100813233682
ISBN-139780813233680
eBay Product ID (ePID)16050073759
Product Key Features
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameSyriac Christian Culture : Beginnings to Renaissance
Publication Year2020
SubjectChristianity / Catholic, Christianity / Denominations
TypeTextbook
AuthorAaron M. Butts
Subject AreaReligion
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight11.7 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2021-286563
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Since 1991, the North American Syriac Symposium has provided a distinguished venue for Syriac scholarship worldwide. This volume collects key papers from the 7th North American Syriac Symposium in 2015, once again offering new work, new texts, new methodologies, and new perspectives that demonstrate how Syriac studies continue to change what we know and how we understand the history of Christianity from its earliest centuries to the present."?Susan Harvey, Brown University "The essays in this excellent volume return the reader to classic Syriac sources and others that are less well known. But in approaching all of these sources anew, the international cadre of scholars whose work is collected here forces us to reexamine what we thought we knew ? about Aphrahat, about the Persian Martyr Acts , about the role of Christians in the Islamic world. In ranging from late antiquity to the Syriac Renaissance, including an epilogue on Syriac scholarship in the early twenty-first century, this book testifies to the true richness of Syriac Christian culture and its continued importance today."?Kyle Smith, University of Toronto
Dewey Decimal275.69101
SynopsisSyriac Christianity developed in the first centuries CE in the Middle East, where it continued to flourish throughout Late Antiquity and the Medieval period, while also spreading widely, as far as India and China. Today, Syriac Christians are found in the Middle East, in India, as well in diasporas scattered across the globe. Over this extended time period and across this vast geographic expanse, Syriac Christians have built impressive churches and monasteries, crafted fine pieces of art, and written and transmitted a sizable body of literature. Though often overlooked, neglected, and even persecuted, Syriac Christianity has been - and continues to be - an important part of the humanistic heritage of the last two millennia. The present volume brings together fourteen studies that offer fresh perspectives on Syriac Christianity, especially its literary texts and authors. The timeframes of the individual studies span from the second-century Syriac translation of the Hebrew Bible up to the thirteenth century with the end of the Syriac Renaissance. Several studies analyze key authors from Late Antiquity, such as Aphrahat, Ephrem, Narsai, and Jacob of Serugh. Others investigate translations into Syriac, both from Hebrew and from Greek, while still others examine hagiography, especially its formation and transmission. Reflecting a growing trend in the field, the volume also devotes significant attention to the Medieval period, during which Syriac Christians lived under Islamic rule. The studies in the volume are united in their quest to explore the richness, diversity, and vibrance of Syriac Christianity., Syriac Christianity developed in the first centuries CE in the Middle East, where it continued to flourish throughout Late Antiquity and the Medieval period, while also spreading widely, as far as India and China. Today, Syriac Christians are found in the Middle East, in India, as well in diasporas scattered across the globe. Over this extended time period and across this vast geographic expanse, Syriac Christians have built impressive churches and monasteries, crafted fine pieces of art, and written and transmitted a sizable body of literature. Though often overlooked, neglected, and even persecuted, Syriac Christianity has been ? and continues to be ? an important part of the humanistic heritage of the last two millennia. The present volume brings together fourteen studies that offer fresh perspectives on Syriac Christianity, especially its literary texts and authors. The timeframes of the individual studies span from the second-century Syriac translation of the Hebrew Bible up to the thirteenth century with the end of the Syriac Renaissance. Several studies analyze key authors from Late Antiquity, such as Aphrahat, Ephrem, Narsai, and Jacob of Serugh. Others investigate translations into Syriac, both from Hebrew and from Greek, while still others examine hagiography, especially its formation and transmission. Reflecting a growing trend in the field, the volume also devotes significant attention to the Medieval period, during which Syriac Christians lived under Islamic rule. The studies in the volume are united in their quest to explore the richness, diversity, and vibrance of Syriac Christianity., Brings together fourteen studies that offer fresh perspectives on Syriac Christianity, especially its literary texts and authors. The timeframes of the individual studies span from the second-century Syriac translation of the Hebrew Bible up to the thirteenth century with the end of the Syriac Renaissance.
LC Classification NumberBX176.3.S965 2020
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