Invitation to Syriac Christianity : An Anthology

Penn, Michael Philip (EDT)/ Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald (EDT)/ Shepardson, Christine (EDT)

University of California Press（2022/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 462 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520299191
• DDC分類 281.63

Full Description

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

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