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HISTORIA DEL PRIMER GENOCIDIO MODERNO El Imperio Otomano, los sirios y los...

  HISTORIA DEL PRIMER GENOCIDIO MODERNO El Imperio Otomano, los sirios y los armenios (1914-1918) SyriacStudies www.syriacstudies.com HISTORIA DEL PRIMER GENOCIDIO MODERNO El Imperio Otomano, los...

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سيرة شهداء أهل الكهف

سيرة شهداء أهل الكهف عندما ملك الملك داكيوس الأثيم على المملكة الرومانية ( من 249 م الى 251 م ) وزار مدينة أفسس أصدر أمره الى نبلائها بتقديم الذبائح للأصنام وأمر بقتل المسيحيين الذين لم يخضعوا لأمره...

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(تاريخ الحضارات السامية ( الحلقة الأولى

تاريخ الحضارات السامية ( الحلقة الأولى ) * : لعل من الضروري القول : انَّ الحضارة ، أية حضارة ، ليست ثمرة جهود فرد ، أو شعب ، أو مجموعة أمم ، بل هي صنع الإنسان في مختلف عصوره القديمة والحديثة...

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The Martyred Church A History of the Church of the East / David Wilmshurst

East & West Publishing Ltd ADVANCE INFORMATION This absorbing book deals with the Church of the East—the so‐ called ‘Nestorian’ Church—arguably the most interesting of all the Syriac‐speaking...

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Syriac Language and Literature

Syriac is the important branch of the group of Semitic languages known as Aramaic. In the time of Alexander the Great, Aramaic was the official language of all the nations from Asia Minor to Persia ,...

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The Chronicle of Edessa

This text was transcribed by Roger Pearse, Ipswich, UK SOME of the early Christian writers refer in very eulogistic terms to the archives of Edessa. The archives were, of course, the public or royal...

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Severus Sebokht, on the constellations

This text was transcribed by Roger Pearse, Ipswich, UK Introduction by François Nau     •    Introduction     •    The sources used by Severus     •    Biographical details on Severus Sebokht given by...

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Severus Sebokht, Description of the Astrolabe

This text was transcribed by Roger Pearse, Ipswich, UK Severus Sebokht, Description of the Astrolabe, in R.T.Gunther, Astrolabes of the World, Oxford (1932) •Introduction •Part 2 – Use of the...

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East Asian History Sourcebook East Asian History Sourcebook: Ch’ing-Tsing:...

composed by a priest of the Syriac Church, 781 A.D. [Horne Introduction]: This remarkable record of the fact that Christianity flourished in medieval China is a huge stone about ten feet high. Carven...

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A Letter of Mara, Son of Serapion Tran. from Syriac

Mara, son of Serapion, to Serapion, my son: peace. When thy master and guardian wrote me a letter, and informed me that thou wast very diligent in study, though so young in years, I blessed God that...

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The Challenges that confronted the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch in the...

(1) The Syrian Orthodox historians have all agreed in their eulogistic tributes to our revered Patriarch Mar Michael the Great. They have appreciated his gifts, struggles, sacrifices and services....

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Language and the Knowledge of God in Ephrem the Syrian Dr. David D. Bundy

Language and the Knowledge of God in Ephrem the Syrian Dr. David D. Bundy WHO WAS EPHREM – EPHREM CONTEST – THE ISSUE – KNOWLEDGE – LANGUAGE Ephrem’s influence in the Syriac speaking churches was...

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CHAPTER 1 TO 4 (Kitab al-Lulu al-Manthur fi Tarikh al-Ulum wal-Adab...

CHAPTER ONE – CHAPTER FOUR THE SYRIAC LANGUAGE / THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SYRIAC LITERATURE /THE CENTERS OF LEARNING / SYRIAN LIBRARIES CHAPTER ONE The Aramaic (Syriac) language is one of the...

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CHAPTER 5 TO 8 (Kitab al-Lulu al-Manthur fi Tarikh al-Ulum wal-Adab...

SYRIAC CALLIGRAPHY /MORPHOLOGY AND GRAMMAR / GENERAL RULES OF THE LANGUAGE AND DICTIONARIES; RHETORIC AND POETRY / THEMES OF SYRIAC POETRY CHAPTER FIVE Since the art of calligraphy is obviously...

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الدولة التاسعة ١ –٢ : المنتقلة إلى ملوك العرب المسلمين من محمد بن عبدالله…....

مقدمة قال القاضي صاعد بن أحمد الأندلسي صاحب قضاء مدينة طليطلة : إن العرب فرقتان فرقة بائدة وفرقة باقية. أما الفرقة البائدة فكانت أمماً ضخمة كعاد وثمود وطسم وجديس. ولتقادم انقراضهم ذهبت عنا حقيقة...

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CHAPTER 9 TO 13 (Kitab al-Lulu al-Manthur fi Tarikh al-Ulum wal-Adab...

CHAPTER NINE TO THIRTEEN CATEGORIES OF SYRIAN POETS / VERSIONS OF THE HOLY BIBLE / THE DIATESSARON / SYRIAC ORTHOGRAPHY / COMMENTARIES ON THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS CHAPTER NINE Among the Syrian poets...

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Identity and Christian-Muslim Interaction: Medieval Art of the Syrian...

Identity and Christian-Muslim Interaction: Medieval Art of the Syrian Orthodox from the Mosul Area, by Bas Snelders. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta). Peeters, dist, by David Brown Book Company,...

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NEW LIGHT ON THE TEXTUAL TRADITION OF BAR BAHLUL’S BOOK OF SIGNS

NEW LIGHT ON THE TEXTUAL TRADITION OF BAR BAHLUL’S BOOK OF SIGNS Bar Bahlul was a tenth-century Nestorian who spent most of his life in Baghdad1. He is primarily remembered today for his remarkable...

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Hopes to Revive the Christian Area of Turkey / SUSANNE GÜSTEN

IDIL, TURKEY — Clambering over the rubble of what was once his hometown, Robert Tutus pointed to a spot just up the road from where his family’s house had stood. “This is where my father was...

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The Gospel of Thomas and Early Stages in the Development of the Christian...

Abstract: This work addresses the theological background of the Gospel of Thomas and its relationship to personified wisdom tradition on the one hand, and to the Syriac Christian tradition of the...

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