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This volume contains the contributions presented at the First International Syriac Symposium organised by the newly established Artuklu University in Mardin (April 2012). A substantial number of papers are devoted to the history of Syriac Christianity in Mardin itself, or more generally in Eastern Turkey, with contributions by both Turkish and international scholars. The importance of this Symposium should not be underestimated. Not so many years ago, Syriac and Turoyo were forbidden languages in Turkey and were only allowed in the private sphere, not in public. With this publication, the Artuklu University and the Turkish academic world acknowledge the importance of Syriac culture and Syriac language as elements for understanding the history and present-day situation of Eastern Anatolia.

Christianity --- Syriac language --- 281 <063> --- 281 <063> Eglises orientales--Congressen --- 281 <063> Oosters christendom--Congressen --- Eglises orientales--Congressen --- Oosters christendom--Congressen --- Conferences - Meetings --- Christianisme --- Christianity. --- Syriac language. --- Syriaque (Langue) --- Syria. --- Semitic languages, Northwest --- Aramaic language --- Religions --- Church history --- Congresses. --- Congrès

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A collection of papers on the history of Christianity along the Silk Road and in pre-modern China, pushing back the frontier of knowledge in a fast developing new area of research. The diffusion of Christianity along the Silk Road from Iraq and Iran to China in the pre-modern era has attracted scholarly attention in the West since the discovery of the famous Xian (Nestorian) Monument c. 1623. This initial discovery was dismissed as a "Jesuit forgery" by Voltaire, Edward Gibbon and many other scholars of the Enlightenment. However, its authenticity has been more than vindicated by the discovery of genuine (Nestorian / Jingjiao) Christian texts in Chinese from Dunhuang and in Syriac, Sogdian and Old Turkish from Turfan (Bulayïq) at the beginning of the last century. The discovery of a second major inscription which included part of a Chinese Christian (Jingjiao) text already known to scholars from Dunhuang, and the recent re-discovery of several Dunhuang Christian texts in a Japanese library, has removed any lingering doubts about the authenticity of the texts recovered from Dunhuang. The surviving material spans almost a millennium from the introduction of Christianity along the Silk Road in the sixth and seventh centuries through the Mongol period and beyond

Asia --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Church history --- 281 <063> --- 281 <063> Eglises orientales--Congressen --- 281 <063> Oosters christendom--Congressen --- Eglises orientales--Congressen --- Oosters christendom--Congressen --- Jing jing, prêtre du monastère du Ta-ts'in, 07..-07.. ? --- Documents nestoriens de Dunhuang --- Églises orientales -- Chine --- Christianisme -- Chine --- Nestorianisme -- Chine --- Antiquités chrétiennes -- Chine --- Antiquités chrétiennes -- Asie centrale --- Manuscrits de Tourfan --- Manuscrits de Dunhuang