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A reference work, in French, of saintly figures who played a role in the history and consciousness of the Syriac-speaking church in the East. Details about them are scattered in calendrical, hagiographical, martyro-logical, historical, and other works, and the author has now collected this material and organized it in a work that will long remain a classic in its field. Entries for the various saints are arranged in alphabetical order (with full cross-referencing) and offer not only such details as are known about these figures but also a scholarly assessment of their personae and references for further reading. The book is essential reading for those interested in the history of the Syriac church, Muslim-Christian relations, the rise and development of Christianity in the Middle East, comparative religion, and Syriac literature.

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Missionary Stories and the Formation of the Syriac Churches analyzes the hagiographic traditions of seven missionary saints in the Syriac heritage during late antiquity: Thomas, Addai, Mari, John of Ephesus, Simeon of Beth Arsham, Jacob Baradaeus, and Ahudemmeh. Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent studies a body of legends about the missionaries' voyages in the Syrian Orient to illustrate their shared symbols and motifs. Revealing how these texts encapsulated the concerns of the communities that produced them, she draws attention to the role of hagiography as a malleable genre that was well-suited for the idealized presentation of the beginnings of Christian communities. Hagiographers, through their reworking of missionary themes, asserted autonomy, orthodoxy, and apostolicity for their individual civic and monastic communities, positioning themselves in relationship to the rulers of their empires and to competing forms of Christianity. Saint-Laurent argues that missionary hagiography is an important and neglected source for understanding the development of the East and West Syriac ecclesiastical bodies: the Syrian Orthodox Church and the Church of the East. Given that many of these Syriac-speaking churches remain today in the Middle East and India, with diaspora communities in Europe and North America, this work opens the door for further study of the role of saints and stories as symbolic links between ancient and modern traditions.

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Andrew Palmer’s vivid translation of the Syriac Life of Barsauma opens a fascinating window onto the ancient Middle East, seen through the life and actions of one of its most dramatic and ambiguous characters: the monk Barsauma, ascetic hero to some, religious terrorist to others. The Life takes us into the eye of the storm that raged around Christian attempts to define the nature of Christ in the great council of Chalcedon, the effects of which was to split the growing Church irrevocably, with the Oriental Orthodox on one side, Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic on the other. Hitherto known only in extracts, this ancient text is finally brought to readers in its entirety, casting dramatic new light on the relations between pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Holy Land and on the role of religious violence, real or imagined, in the mental world of a Middle East as shot through with conflict as it is, alas, today.

Syriac Christian saints --- 235.3 <394> --- 281.81 --- Syriac saints, Christian --- Christian saints --- 281.81 Chaldeeuwse Kerk: Oost-Syrische, Assyrische, Perzische christenen --- Chaldeeuwse Kerk: Oost-Syrische, Assyrische, Perzische christenen --- 235.3 <394> Hagiografie--Syrië --- 235.3 <394> Hagiographie--Syrië --- Hagiografie--Syrië --- Hagiographie--Syrië --- Barṣāwmā, --- Barsauma, --- Barsaumas, --- Barsawmo, --- Barsumas, --- Barsauma ep. Nisibenus nestorianus --- acts of chalcedon. --- ancient middle east. --- asceticism. --- barsauma. --- bible. --- biography. --- christianity. --- church sects. --- churches. --- cloister. --- council of chalcedon. --- early church. --- greek orthodox. --- holy land. --- holy places. --- life of barsauma. --- middle east. --- monk. --- nature of christ. --- nestorius. --- nonfiction. --- oriental orthodox. --- places of worship. --- profile. --- religion. --- religious conflict. --- religious leaders. --- religious martyr. --- religious men. --- religious terrorism. --- religious violence. --- roman catholicism. --- saint flavian. --- syria. --- terrorism.