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Bar Hebraeus "The Ecclesiastical Chronicle" : An English Translation.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gorgias Eastern Christian StudiesPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (594 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781463205355
  • 9781463234225
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Text and Translation -- Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle: Section One, 1- 441 -- Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle: Section One, 441- 845 -- Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle: Section Two -- Appendix One: The Patriarchs and Maphrians of the Jacobite Church -- Appendix Two: The Patriarchs of the Church of the East -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Maps
Summary: The Ecclesiastical History of Bar Hebraeus is an important source for the history of the Syrian Orthodox Church and the Church of the East. It deserves to be widely read, but has never before been fully translated into English. David Wilmshurst, a noted historian of the Church of the East, has now provided a graceful and accurate English translation of the Ecclesiastical History, with the aim of winning this important text the readership it deserves. Wilmshurst's elegant translation is complemented by a well-informed and helpful introduction, several pages of maps and a comprehensive index of places and persons.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781463234225

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Text and Translation -- Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle: Section One, 1- 441 -- Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle: Section One, 441- 845 -- Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle: Section Two -- Appendix One: The Patriarchs and Maphrians of the Jacobite Church -- Appendix Two: The Patriarchs of the Church of the East -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Maps

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The Ecclesiastical History of Bar Hebraeus is an important source for the history of the Syrian Orthodox Church and the Church of the East. It deserves to be widely read, but has never before been fully translated into English. David Wilmshurst, a noted historian of the Church of the East, has now provided a graceful and accurate English translation of the Ecclesiastical History, with the aim of winning this important text the readership it deserves. Wilmshurst's elegant translation is complemented by a well-informed and helpful introduction, several pages of maps and a comprehensive index of places and persons.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In Multiple languages.

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