This volume provides an analysis of a late fifteenth century document, a hitherto unpublished narration of the life and accomplishments of Yuhanun Bar Say Allah, a fifteenth-century Syriac Orthodox Patriarch. It includes considerable unique historical information, shedding light on the history of the Syriac community in relation to other communities. It also supplies descriptions of events that brought important changes to the Syriac Church in Mesopotamia, Syria and Egypt.
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Für Beruf und Forschung
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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978-1-4632-3543-7 (9781463235437)
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- Copyright (page 4)
- Table of Contents (page 5)
- Abbreviations (page 7)
- Transliteration (page 9)
- Acknowledgments (page 11)
- Introduction (page 13)
- Historical Context: The Syriac Orthodox Church in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century (page 14)
- The Family of Sa?d al-Din (page 17)
- Patriarch Yuhanun Bar Say Allah (1483-1492) (page 20)
- The Syriac Manuscript of Cambridge: DD.3.8(1) (page 22)
- The Account of Patriarch Yuhanun Bar Say Allah (page 24)
- Historical Observations (page 24)
- Title (page 24)
- Author, Place and Time (page 25)
- Language, Style and Structure (page 27)
- Purpose (page 29)
- Analysis and Importance (page 31)
- The Knowledgeable Man (page 31)
- The Monk (page 32)
- The Shepherd (page 33)
- Historical events (page 34)
- Translation (page 39)
- Syriac Manuscript Text (page 71)
- Bibliography (page 85)
