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Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology
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Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology

Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology

Overview

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.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520299191
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 02/22/2022
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 462
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Michael Philip Penn is Teresa Hihn Moore Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He is author of When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam, Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians in the Early Muslim World, and Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church.
 
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson is Joseph F. Paxton Presidential Associate Professor and Chair of Classics and Letters at the University of Oklahoma. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. He is author of Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity andThe Life and Miracles of Thekla: A Literary Study and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity, among other volumes.
 
Christine Shepardson is Lindsay Young Professor and Department Head of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee. She is author of Anti-Judaism and Christian Orthodoxy: Ephrem’s Hymns in Fourth-Century Syria and Controlling Contested Places: Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy and coeditor of Dealing with Difference: Christian Patterns of Response to Religious Rivalry in Late Antiquity and Beyond.
 
Charles M. Stang is Professor of Early Christian Thought and Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. He is author of Our Divine Double and Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite: “No Longer I.”

Table of Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Nomenclature
Maps by David A. Michelson and Ian Mladjov

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
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