The Christian heritage of Iraq : collected papers from the Christianity in Iraq Seminar Days, 2004-2008

Körperschaft: Christianity in Iraq I-V Seminar Days Brunei Gallery)
Weitere Verfasser: Hunter, Erica C. D.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2009.
Umfang/Format: xxiii, 304 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Gorgias Eastern Christian studies, 13
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Preface
  • Foreword / by His Grace Louis Sako, Chaldan Archbishop of Kirkuk, Iraq
  • Iraqi Christians should remain in their land to uphold their millennial multi-heritage
  • The Patriarch Itoyahb III and the Christians of Qatar in the first Islamic century / John Healey
  • Greek philosophy and Syriac culture in early Abbasid Iraq / John Watt
  • Patriarch Timothy and an aristotelian at the Caliph's court / Sidney Griffith
  • The great monastery at Mount Izla and the defence of the East-Syrian identity / Florence Jullien
  • The cultural contribution of monasticism in Iraq / Sebastian Brock
  • Der mir Behnam, the Monastery of Saint Behnam / Suha Rassam
  • The Syriac Bible in Central Asia / Mark Dickens
  • Prester John's realm : new light on Christianity between Merv and Turfan / Alexei Savchenko
  • Syriac inscriptions from Tokmak and Bikek, Kkirghizstan / Wassilios Klein
  • Chaldans and Assyrians : the church of the East in the Ottoman period / Heleen Murre-Van Den Berg
  • Commemorating church history in the Ottoman era : monumental inscriptions and art / Amir Harrak
  • Magic and medicine amongst the Christians of Kurdistan / Erica Hunter
  • World War I and the Assyrians / Martin Tamcke
  • The Syriac Bible in the private Assyrian schools in Iraq / Robin Bet Shmuel
  • The neo-Aramaic dialects of Iraq / Geoffrey Khan
  • Christianity in Iraq : modern history, theology, dialogue, and politics (until 2003) / Anthony O'Mahony.