No 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 Debie, Terry Falla, George A. Kiraz, Sergey Minov, Craig E. Morrison, Istvan Perczel, Anton Pritula, Ilaria Ramelli, Christine Shepardson, Stephen J. Shoemaker, Herman G.B. Teule, Kathleen E. McVey.
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Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony is Martin Buber Professor in the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of The Ladder of Prayer and the Ship of Stirrings (Peeters, 2019) and the co-editor of Origeniana Duodecima (Peeters, 2019).
Miriam L. Hjaelm, D.Phil (2015), is a Senior lecturer in Eastern Christian Studies at Sankt Ignatios College, University College Stockholm. She is the author of Christian Arabic Versions of Daniel (Brill, 2016) and the editor of Senses of Scripture, Treasures of Tradition (Brill, 2017).
Robert A. Kitchen, D.Phil (1998), retired United Church of Canada minister. He has published studies and translations of Syriac ascetical texts, including The Book of Steps (Cistercian, 2004) and The Discourses of Philoxenos of Mabbug (Cistercian, 2013).
Contributors
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
?Istvan Perczel with a contribution by Radu Musta?a
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 Ba?ira and a Syriac "Story of Mu?ammad"
?Muriel Debie
Index of Places
Index of Authors and Texts
Index of Bible Passages
General Index
