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Syriac Writers on Muslims and the Religious Challenge of Islam Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 56
ISBN: 9781611435627
Pub Date: 21 Aug 2012
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Moran Etho
Description:
Sydney H. Griffith provides a basic overview of Syriac authors that addressed the issue of Islam in their writings. Griffith discusses the major themes and common content of this literature and focuses on the dialogue genre.
Portraits of a King Favored by God Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 269
ISBN: 9781611434057
Pub Date: 20 Aug 2012
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
David the king, when studied against the backdrop of existing material cultural remains from the ancient Middle East, scarcely seems to have been there. Excavations in Jerusalem have turned up nothing concrete about his existence. The literature concerning him is fraught with problems and generally takes on a legendary-mythological character.
Ephraem Syrus on the Repentance of Nineveh Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 271
ISBN: 9781617191626
Pub Date: 17 Aug 2012
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
This volume contains English translations of five works of various lengths from St. Ephrem on the theme of repentance. The translator also includes a lengthy introduction, notes to the translation, and indices.
Moses bar Kepha und sein Buch von der Seele Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781617191633
Pub Date: 17 Aug 2012
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
This volume contains a German translation of a fascinating work on the soul in all its characteristics and aspects from the Syrian Orthodox author Mushe bar Kipho (d. 903).
Opuscula Monophysitica Ioannis Philoponi Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781617191732
Pub Date: 17 Aug 2012
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
The Philalethes of Severus of Antioch (d. 538) is one of the most important documents of anti-Chalcedonian christological writing. This volume contains the Syriac text, a Latin translation, and a brief introduction.
Histoire  politique, religieuse et littéraire d'Édesse jusqu'à la première Croisade Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 308
ISBN: 9781617192333
Pub Date: 16 Aug 2012
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
Rubens Duval, known for his Syriac grammar and editions of Syriac texts, here offers a complete historical study of Edessa up to the first Crusade. Everything from geography to language and literature to political interactions are covered.
Severi Philalethes Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 268
ISBN: 9781617191725
Pub Date: 16 Aug 2012
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
The Philalethes of Severus of Antioch (d. 538) is one of the most important documents of anti-Chalcedonian christological writing. This volume contains the Syriac text, a Latin translation, and a brief introduction.
Spirituality in the Syriac Tradition Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 166
ISBN: 9781611435580
Pub Date: 16 Aug 2012
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Moran Etho
Description:
In the present volume, Sebastian Brock provides an introduction and overview of the unique themes and features of spirituality in the Syriac tradition and includes excerpts from various texts throughout the Syriac tradition that exhibit these features.
The Way of the Sevenfold Secret Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 182
ISBN: 9781617199424
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2012
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Exploring the House of Islam: Perceptions of Islam in the Period of Western Ascendancy 1800-1945
Description:
Lilias Trotter moved from England to Algiers in 1888, at the age of 35, and died there in 1928. In the latter stages of her mission there, she wrote specifically for Muslims influenced by mysticism. Lilias based The Way of the Sevenfold Secret on Christ’s seven ‘I am’ sayings in John’s gospel, and attempted to link them to the traditional seven steps taken by members of Sufi orders in their quest for union with God.
The Massoreth ha-Massoreth of Elias Levita Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 319
ISBN: 9781611433159
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2012
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Manuscript Archive
Description:
This comprehensive text provides a guide to the traditional marginalia to the Hebrew text of the Old Testament.
A Christian Bahira Legend Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781611433340
Pub Date: 10 Aug 2012
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Classics in the History of Early Christian Literature
Description:
This book relates the legend of the monk Bahira and his alleged interactions with the Prophet Muhammad.
Fifty-Three Years in Syria (2 vols) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 978
ISBN: 9781607242925
Pub Date: 09 Aug 2012
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
A massive undertaking, this widely read memoir of an American missionary in Syria and Lebanon during the nineteenth century has become a standard reference. Providing background and color for his own work, Jessup helps the reader understand some of the tragic incidents he faced, but also the optimistic sense of success that would eventually arise from the work he had done. Encompassing the spirit of travel and adventure characterized by the Gorgias Historic Travels in the Cradle of Civilization, this two-volume recollection will find avid readers from missions-minded laity and historians of Syria and Lebanon alike.
Fifty-Three Years in Syria (Vol 2) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 498
ISBN: 9781607242949
Pub Date: 09 Aug 2012
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historic Travels Archive
Description:
A massive undertaking, this widely read memoir of an American missionary in Syria and Lebanon during the nineteenth century has become a standard reference. Providing background and color for his own work, Jessup helps the reader understand some of the tragic incidents he faced, but also the optimistic sense of success that would eventually arise from the work he had done. Encompassing the spirit of travel and adventure characterized by the Gorgias Historic Travels in the Cradle of Civilization, this two-volume recollection will find avid readers from missions-minded laity and historians of Syria and Lebanon alike.
L’école d’Édesse Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9781617192043
Pub Date: 09 Aug 2012
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
In this work, the author’s doctoral thesis, Hayes looks at the “school” very broadly in general terms of the Christian intellectual and theological milieu of the city.
Le livre des lois des pays Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9781617191763
Pub Date: 09 Aug 2012
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
The text published here is the Book of the Laws of Countries, a dialogue in which Bardaisan plays the major role. Nau gives this fascinating text in Syriac (Estrangela) and a French translation along with explanatory notes.
Les lettres d’Afrahat le sage de la Perse Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 146
ISBN: 9781617192050
Pub Date: 09 Aug 2012
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
This volume, the author’s doctoral thesis, contains a detailed but concise study of Aphrahat’s Demonstrations. The main part of the book is divided into two parts: the Church in Persia, and doctrine in the Demonstrations.