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Book SynopsisNo one mentions Syriac, – a dialect of the Aramaic language Jesus spoke –, without referring to Sebastian P. Brock, the Oxford scholar and teacher who has written and taught about everything Syriac, even reorienting the field as The Third Lung of early Christianity (along with Greek and Latin). In 2018, Syriac scholars world-wide gathered in Sigtuna, Sweden, to celebrate with Sebastian his accomplishments and share new directions. Through essays showing what Syriac studies have attained, where they are going, as well as some arenas and connections previously not imagined, flavors of the fruits of laboring in the field are offered. Contributors to this volume are: Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Shraga Bick, Briouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Alberto Camplani, Thomas A. Carlson, Jeff W. Childers, Muriel Debié, Terry Falla, George A. Kiraz, Sergey Minov, Craig E. Morrison, István Perczel, Anton Pritula, Ilaria Ramelli, Christine Shepardson, Stephen J. Shoemaker, Herman G.B. Teule, Kathleen E. McVey.
Table of ContentsContributors Introduction: The Third Lung Robert A. Kitchen Part 1: Going Where We Should Have Gone Ephrem and the Mariological Motif of Conceptio per Aurem Kathleen E. McVey Seeking the Women of Ancient Syriac Christianity: Strategies of Method and Remembrance Susan Ashbrook Harvey Teach Your Children Well: Martyrs, Monks, and Mothers in Severus of Antioch Christine Shepardson The Ladder of Prayer, the Ship of Stirrings, and the Exodus from Egypt Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony Stuck between Voice and Silence: Ephrem and the Rabbis on Prayer Shraga Bick Part 2: Digging Deeper The Church’s “Third Lung”: Ancient Voices from the Syriac Orient That Speak to Today’s Western Society Craig E. Morrison Peshitta Parables as Oral Performance Terry C. Falla Severus of Antioch on Ancient Church Customs: The Significance of Cyprian’s Letters as Quoted by Severus and Oriental Canonical Collections Alberto Camplani Theodicy in the Letter of Mara Bar Serapion: Connections with Philosophical (Stoic) Accounts of Divine Retribution Ilaria L.E. Ramelli A Monk and a Fish by the River of Babylon: An Unpublished Edifying Tale Sergey Minov Notes on Syriac Learning in South India in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity István Perczel with a contribution by Radu Mustață Part 3: Going Where We Have Not Been Bringing the Syriac Climacus to the Twenty-First Century Jeff W. Childers Towards a Syriac Semantic Web from the Perspective of 2020 George A. Kiraz Dialogue Elements in Late Syriac Poetry: The Ways of Transformation Anton Pritula Syriac Apocalypticism and the Rise of Islam Stephen J. Shoemaker Christianity in Iraq and the Issue of Chaldean Identity Herman G.B. Teule Who Says? A Social History of Syriac Use in the Medieval Islamic Period Thomas A. Carlson Sergius Baḥīrā and a Syriac “Story of Muḥammad” Muriel Debié Index of Places Index of Authors and Texts Index of Bible Passages General Index
