The Christian Heritage of Iraq : : Collected papers from the Christianity of Iraq I-V Seminar Days.
Iraq has been a centre of Syriac Christianity for almost two thousand years. This volume of collected papers from the Christianity in Iraq I-V Seminar Days (2004-2008) explores the Christian heritage of Iraq, highlighting the churches’ innate ability to transcend barriers of language, culture, ethni...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Listing of Plates
- The Patriarch Išo‘yahb III and the Christians of Qaṭar in the first Islamic Century
- Greek Philosophy and Syriac Culture in Early ‘Abbasid Iraq
- Patriarch Timothy and an Aristotelian at the Caliph’s court
- The Great Monastery at Mount Izla and the Defence of the East Syriac Identity
- The Cultural Contribution of Monasticism in Iraq
- Der Mār Behnam - The Monastery of Saint Behnam
- The Syriac Bible in Central Asia
- Prester John’s Realm: New Light on Christianity between Merv and Turfan
- Syriac inscriptions from Tokmak and Biškek, Kirghizstan
- Chaldæans and Assyrians: the Church of the East in the Ottoman Period
- Commemorating Church History in the Ottoman Era: Monumental Inscriptions and Art
- Magic and Medicine amongst the Christians of Kurdistan
- World War I and the Assyrians
- The Syriac Bible in the Private Assyrian Schools in Iraq
- The Neo-Aramaic Dialects of Iraq
- Christianity in Iraq: Modern History, Theology, Dialogue and Politics (until 2003)
- Plates