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The Christian communities of the Middle East distinguish themselves through their unique languages, their ethnic identities and their doctrinal stances. Whereas the history of doctrinal disputes has been a topic of old in Western scholarship, it is only in more recent times that scholars have begun to investigate how the Christian communities of the Nile-to-Oxus region perceived themselves and how they asserted their distinct identities vis-a-vis their neighbours and maintained a sense of communal integrity in response to cultural change and foreign domination. This volume brings together a number of key studies, many specially translated into English for this volume, which deal with this question of Eastern Christian self-definition. In the introduction Barbara Roggema reviews a number of themes which serve as tools to dissect aspects of Christian identity in the Coptic, Syriac, Arabic, Armenian and Georgian communities: labeling of the self and others, the invention of historical and Biblical roots, linguistic pride, the role of doctrine in community formation, and the assertion of superiority vis-a-vis other religions, especially Islam.
Included in the volume is an extensive bibliography on the topic of Eastern Christian self-understanding.
Contents
Contents: Introduction: Bibliography; Part I Diachronic Views of the Formation of eastern Christian Communal Identities: Historiography, hagiography, and the making of the Coptic 'church of the martyrs', Arietta Papaconstantinou; History and identity in the Syrian churches, Michael G. Morony; The Church of Jerusalem and the 'Melkites': the making of an 'Arab Orthodox' Christian identity, Sidney H. Griffith; Myth and reality. Armenian identity in the early Middle Ages, A.E. Redgate. Part II Doctrine and the Negotiation of Identities: Theodoret on the 'school of Antioch'. A network approach, Adam M. Schor; The Church 'of the East'. Ecclesiastical independence and ecclesiastical unity in the 5th century, W. Hage; Nestorius in the 'Nestorian' Church. Shedding light on the self-understanding of the Apostolic Church of the East, Karl Pinggera. Part III Language, Ethnicity and Identity: Did nationalism exist in Byzantine Egypt?, Ewa Wipszycka; The ancient Near East in the late antique Near East. Syriac Christian appropriation of the Biblical past, Adam H. Backer; Identity and self-image in Syria-Palestine in the transition from Byzantine to early Islamic rule, Ahmad Shboul and Alan Walmsley; Identity and universality. Vernacular and written language in the lands of the ancient Christian East, Winfried Boeder; The formative processes of the identity awareness of Christian Armenia and the emergence of an ethnic church, Boghos Levon Zekiyan. Part IV Intercommunal Confrontations and Self-Portrayal: Papyri from the Great Persecution: Roman and Christian perspectives, Annemarie Luijendijk; Conflicts between the non-Latin churches in the Kingdom of Jersualem, Johannes Pahlitzsch and Dorothea Weltecke; Boundary making and self-assertion in a multi-cultural environment. The Christian community of Merw, a metropolis on the Silk Road, in the late Sasanian period, Jurgen Tubach; Index.
