Syriac encounters : papers from the sixth North American Syriac Symposium, Duke University, 26-29 June 2011 /
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | French |
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Leuven ; Bristol, Connecticut :
Peeters,
2015.
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| Series: | Eastern Christian studies ;
v. 20. |
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Table of Contents:
- Encountering Eve in the Syriac liturgy / Susan Ashbrook Harvey (Brown University)
- The poetics of self-presentation in Ephrem's Hymns on faith 10 / Jeffrey Wickes (St. Louis University)
- A poetic life: metrical Vita of Jacob of Serug by Saʹīd bar Ṣabūnī / Robert A. Kitchen (Knox United Metropolitan Church)
- Meaningful meetings: constructing linguistic difference in and around Late Antique Antioch / Christine Shepardson (University of Tennessee)
- Aspects of linguistic thought in the Syriac exegetical tradition / Riccardo Contini (University of Naples)
- Classical Syriac and the Syriac churches: a twentieth-century history / Heleen Murre-Van Den Berg (Leiden University)
- Evagrius of Pontus on the "great gift of letters" / Charles M. Stang (Harvard Divinity School)
- 'We do not turn aside from the way of the interpreter:' Joseph Ḥazzaya's Discourse on divine providence and its apologetic intention / Nestor Kavvadas (University of Tübingen)
- Socializing Evagrius: the case of Philoxenus of Mabbug's Letter to Patricius / Maria E. Doerfler (Duke Divinity School)
- The Doors of Deir al-Surian commissioned by Moses of Nisibis: some observations on the occasion of their restoration / Karel Innemée (Leiden University)
- Dionysius of Tell-Maḥrē: patriarch, diplomat, and inquisitive chronicler / Amir Harrak (University of Toronto)
- A Syriac document and its cultural implications for third-century Roman Syria / Nathanael Andrade (University of Oregon)
- Bardaisan's psychology: known and unknown testimonies and current scholarly perspectives / Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome)
- When Judas Thomas the Apostle prays: intercessory prayer in early Syriac literature / Craig E. Morrison (Pontifical Biblical Institute)
- Some Syriac monastic encounters with Greek literature / Alberto Rigolio (University of Oxford)
- The Letter of Mara bar Serapion to his son and the Second Sophistic: Palamedes and the 'Wise King of the Jews' / Kathleen McVey (Princeton Theological Seminary)
- Scholarship on the margins: biblical and secular learning in the work of Jacob of Edessa / Alison Salvesen (University of Oxford)
- Christological debates in eighth-century Harran: the correspondence of Leo of Harran and Eliya / Ute Possekel (Harvard Divinity School)
- What does Mecca have to do with Urhōy? Syriac Christianity, Islamic origins, and the Qurʹān / Sidney H. Griffith (Catholic University of America)
- 'Sons of Magog' or 'Thorgomians'?: the description of the Turks (Book XIV) in MIchael's Chronicle and its Armenian adaptations / Andy Hilkens (Ghent University)
- The Book of Khamis bar Qardaḥe: history of the text, genres, and research perspectives / Alessandro Mengozzi (University of Turin)
- Bones in bags: relics in Syriac hagiography / Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent (Marquette University)
- A Jewish adjuration formula in three Syriac magic bowls / Stephanie Bolz (University of Michigan)
- Two Syriac manuscripts in the Special Collections Library of Duke University / Lucas Van Rompay (Duke University).