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The Christian Heritage of Iraq: Collected papers from the Christianity of Iraq I-V Seminar Days (Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies) by John Watt; Sidney H. Griffith; Florence Jullien; Sebastian P. Brock; Suha Rassam; Wassilios Klein; Alexei Savchenko; Mark Dickens; Heleen van den Berg; Amir Harrak; Martin Tamcke; Robin Bet Shmuel; Anthony O’Mahony is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Iraq has been a centre of Syriac Christianity for almost two thousand years. From its beginnings in the second century CE until the twenty-first century, Christianity has had a significant religious profile in Iraq, variously enriching the culture of Mesopotamia from where its influence extended into adjacent and more distant regions. This volume of collected papers from the Christianity in Iraq I-V Seminar Days (2004-2008) explores the heritage and contribution of Syriac Christianity to Iraq, highlighting its innate ability to transcend barriers of language, culture, ethnicity and religion. Papers are organized into four major sections. The first probes exchanges with the Muslim world in the Ummayid and Abbasid era. The second section investigates the legacy of monasticism that continues, albeit tenaciously, to the present day. The remarkable outreach programme of The Church of the East in Central Asia that, amongst other things, introduced the Syriac Bible is the subject of the third section. Finally, the volume examines post-medieval responses following the ravages of the fourteenth century, which essentially confined Syriac Christianity to northern Mesopotamia. Growth and i

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Author

John Watt; Sidney H. Griffith; Florence Jullien; Sebastian P. Brock; Suha Rassam; Wassilios Klein; Alexei Savchenko; Mark Dickens; Heleen van den Berg; Amir Harrak; Martin Tamcke; Robin Bet Shmuel; Anthony O’Mahony

Publisher

Gorgias Press, LLC

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781463217136

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Christian, Religion, Christianity