ISBN10: 9042930462, ISBN13: 9789042930469, [publisher: Peeters Publishers, Leuven] Softcover Paperback. The Sixth North American Syriac Symposium brought together scholars fromacross North America, Europe, the Middle East, and India. SyriacEncounters offers twenty-four papers that were originally delivered atthe Symposium, and represents a cross-section of both the Symposium andthe current state of Syriac studies more broadly. Although most of thepapers in the volume focus on the late antique heyday of SyriacChristianity, several papers contribute to the study of other, relatedfields, including Islamic studies and Middle Eastern anthropology. Theblossoming of Syriac studies beyond church history and Semitic philologycan be attributed to a wider recognition of the Syriac language andculture as a bridge linking (and fostering encounters between) Romeand Persia, Byzantium and Baghdad, and Christianity and Islam. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
[Stevenage, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2015]