TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berg,Heleen van den
AU  - Brock,Sebastian
AU  - Brock,Sebastian P.
AU  - Dickens,Mark
AU  - Griffith,Sidney
AU  - Griffith,Sidney H.
AU  - Harrak,Amir
AU  - Healey,John
AU  - Hunter,Erica
AU  - Jullien,Florence
AU  - Khan,Geoffrey
AU  - Klein,Wassilios
AU  - Murre-Van Den Berg,Heleen
AU  - O’Mahony,Anthony
AU  - Rassam,Suha
AU  - Sako,Louis
AU  - Savchenko,Alexei
AU  - Shmuel,Robin Bet
AU  - Shmuel,Robin Beth
AU  - Tamcke,Martin
AU  - Watt,John
TI  - The Christian Heritage of Iraq: Collected papers from the Christianity of Iraq I-V Seminar Days
T2  - Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
SN  - 9781607241119
U1  - 230 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Foreword --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; List of Contributors --; Listing of Plates --; The Patriarch Išo‘yahb III and the Christians of Qaṭar in the first Islamic Century --; Greek Philosophy and Syriac Culture in Early ‘Abbasid Iraq --; Patriarch Timothy and an Aristotelian at the Caliph’s court --; The Great Monastery at Mount Izla and the Defence of the East Syriac Identity --; The Cultural Contribution of Monasticism in Iraq --; Der Mār Behnam - The Monastery of Saint Behnam --; The Syriac Bible in Central Asia --; Prester John’s Realm: New Light on Christianity between Merv and Turfan --; Syriac inscriptions from Tokmak and Biškek, Kirghizstan --; Chaldæans and Assyrians: the Church of the East in the Ottoman Period --; Commemorating Church History in the Ottoman Era: Monumental Inscriptions and Art --; Magic and Medicine amongst the Christians of Kurdistan --; World War I and the Assyrians --; The Syriac Bible in the Private Assyrian Schools in Iraq --; The Neo-Aramaic Dialects of Iraq --; Christianity in Iraq: Modern History, Theology, Dialogue and Politics (until 2003) --; Plates; restricted access
N2  - Iraq has been a centre of Syriac Christianity for almost two thousand years. This volume of collected papers from the Christianity in Iraq I-V Seminar Days (2004-2008) explores the Christian heritage of Iraq, highlighting the churches’ innate ability to transcend barriers of language, culture, ethnicity and religion
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463217136
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ER  -