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The Assyrian Church of the East: a Panoramic View of a Glorious History
The Assyrian Church of the East: A Panoramic View of a Glorious History Mar Awa Royel Apostolic Origins and Beginnings The beginnings of the Assyrian Church are to be found in the very first decades of the apostolic era. With the revelation of the Son of God in the flesh, the salvific message of the Gospel was open to all peoples of divers tongues and cultures. The Gospel-writer St. Luke records in the book of Acts the events of the growth and spread of the Christian Gospel in the Holy City and abroad, to the outer limits of the Roman Empire. We read in the Acts 2 the wondrous happenings surrounding the Pentecost feast celebrated at Jerusalem by our Lord’s disciples. The promise of the Holy Spirit given to disciples before Jesus was taken up to the Father gave hope to the fledgling Christian community at Jerusalem (cf. John 16:13; Acts 1:4). This promise was fulfilled on the day of the Jewish feast of the Pentecost, which took place at Jerusalem 50 days after the Lord’s Resurrection. Luke records: And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another. Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea and Cappodocia in Pontus, and Asia… (Acts 2:5-9) Among those who had gone up to Jerusalem in order to be present in the Holy City for the Pentecost feast, there were Jews from Mesopotamia. -
Possible Historical Traces in the Doctrina Addai
Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies, Vol. 9.1, 51-127 © 2006 [2009] by Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute and Gorgias Press POSSIBLE HISTORICAL TRACES IN THE DOCTRINA ADDAI ILARIA L. E. RAMELLI CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF THE SACRED HEART, MILAN 1 ABSTRACT The Teaching of Addai is a Syriac document convincingly dated by some scholars in the fourth or fifth century AD. I agree with this dating, but I think that there may be some points containing possible historical traces that go back even to the first century AD, such as the letters exchanged by king Abgar and Tiberius. Some elements in them point to the real historical context of the reign of Abgar ‘the Black’ in the first century. The author of the Doctrina might have known the tradition of some historical letters written by Abgar and Tiberius. [1] Recent scholarship often dates the Doctrina Addai, or Teaching of Addai,2 to the fourth century AD or the early fifth, a date already 1 This is a revised version of a paper delivered at the SBL International Meeting, Groningen, July 26 2004, Ancient Near East section: I wish to thank very much all those who discussed it and so helped to improve it, including the referees of the journal. 2 Extant in mss of the fifth-sixth cent. AD: Brit. Mus. 935 Add. 14654 and 936 Add. 14644. Ed. W. Cureton, Ancient Syriac Documents (London 1864; Piscataway: Gorgias, 2004 repr.), 5-23; another ms. of the sixth cent. was edited by G. Phillips, The Doctrine of Addai, the Apostle (London, 1876); G. -
Saints from the East
PART 1 By Fr Habib Jajou Chaldean Catholic Church London 2012 2 STARS FROM THE CHURCH OF THE EAST ‘Super-Heroes of God’ PART 1 By Fr Habib Jajou, Mr Wisam Talal Chaldean Catholic Mission Publishing 38 – 40 Cavendish Avenue, Ealing London W13 OJQ Tel - Fax : 0208 9976370 www.chaldean.org.uk [email protected] 3 4 Contents 1st 1. St Addai the apostle Century 2nd 2. St. Mari Century 3. Bishop Aphrahat the 3rd Wiseman Century 4. St Barbara 300 5. St George (Mar 303 Gorgees) 6. St Kiriakos and his 308 mother St. Youlete 7. St Kardagh 308 8. The Martyr Habib 309 9. Sultan Mahdokht & 319 her two Brothers 10. Shemon Bar Sabbae 344 11. St Behnam & his sister 350 St. Sarah 12. St Anthony the Great 356 5 6 16“Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves. 17 But beware of people, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues, 18and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and the pagans. 19When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say. You will be given at that moment what you are to say. 20For it will not be you who speak but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. 21 Brother will hand over brother to death, and the father his child; children will rise up against parents and have them put to death. -
Christian Historical Imagination in Late Antique Iraq
OXFORD EARLY CHRISTIAN STUDIES General Editors Gillian Clark Andrew Louth THE OXFORD EARLY CHRISTIAN STUDIES series includes scholarly volumes on the thought and history of the early Christian centuries. Covering a wide range of Greek, Latin, and Oriental sources, the books are of interest to theologians, ancient historians, and specialists in the classical and Jewish worlds. Titles in the series include: Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and the Transformation of Divine Simplicity Andrew Radde-Gallwitz (2009) The Asceticism of Isaac of Nineveh Patrik Hagman (2010) Palladius of Helenopolis The Origenist Advocate Demetrios S. Katos (2011) Origen and Scripture The Contours of the Exegetical Life Peter Martens (2012) Activity and Participation in Late Antique and Early Christian Thought Torstein Theodor Tollefsen (2012) Irenaeus of Lyons and the Theology of the Holy Spirit Anthony Briggman (2012) Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite “No Longer I” Charles M. Stang (2012) Memory in Augustine’s Theological Anthropology Paige E. Hochschild (2012) Orosius and the Rhetoric of History Peter Van Nuffelen (2012) Drama of the Divine Economy Creator and Creation in Early Christian Theology and Piety Paul M. Blowers (2012) Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa Hans Boersma (2013) The Chronicle of Seert Christian Historical Imagination in Late Antique Iraq PHILIP WOOD 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries # Philip Wood 2013 The moral rights of the author have been asserted First Edition published in 2013 Impression: 1 All rights reserved. -
From Beit Abhe to Angamali: Connections, Functions and Roles of the Church of the East’S Monasteries in Ninth Century Christian-Muslim Relations
Middlesex University Research Repository An open access repository of Middlesex University research http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk Cochrane, Steve (2014) From Beit Abhe to Angamali: connections, functions and roles of the Church of the East’s monasteries in ninth century Christian-Muslim relations. PhD thesis, Middlesex University / Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. [Thesis] Final accepted version (with author’s formatting) This version is available at: https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/13988/ Copyright: Middlesex University Research Repository makes the University’s research available electronically. Copyright and moral rights to this work are retained by the author and/or other copyright owners unless otherwise stated. The work is supplied on the understanding that any use for commercial gain is strictly forbidden. A copy may be downloaded for personal, non-commercial, research or study without prior permission and without charge. Works, including theses and research projects, may not be reproduced in any format or medium, or extensive quotations taken from them, or their content changed in any way, without first obtaining permission in writing from the copyright holder(s). They may not be sold or exploited commercially in any format or medium without the prior written permission of the copyright holder(s). Full bibliographic details must be given when referring to, or quoting from full items including the author’s name, the title of the work, publication details where relevant (place, publisher, date), pag- ination, and for theses or dissertations the awarding institution, the degree type awarded, and the date of the award. If you believe that any material held in the repository infringes copyright law, please contact the Repository Team at Middlesex University via the following email address: [email protected] The item will be removed from the repository while any claim is being investigated. -
The Apostolic Succession of the Right Rev. James Michael St. George
The Apostolic Succession of The Right Rev. James Michael St. George © Copyright 2014-2015, The International Old Catholic Churches, Inc. 1 Table of Contents Certificates ....................................................................................................................................................4 ......................................................................................................................................................................5 Photos ...........................................................................................................................................................6 Lines of Succession........................................................................................................................................7 Succession from the Chaldean Catholic Church .......................................................................................7 Succession from the Syrian-Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch..............................................................10 The Coptic Orthodox Succession ............................................................................................................16 Succession from the Russian Orthodox Church......................................................................................20 Succession from the Melkite-Greek Patriarchate of Antioch and all East..............................................27 Duarte Costa Succession – Roman Catholic Succession .........................................................................34 -
Gondeshapur Revisited; What Historical Evidence?
Gondeshapur Revisited; What Historical Evidence? History of Medicine Gondeshapur Revisited; What Historical Evidence? Touraj Nayernouri MDƔ Abstract In recent years, in European academic circles, there has been a trend to dismiss Gondeshapur as a myth perpetrated by the Bokhtishu IDPLO\LQHDUO\,VODPLFHUDGHVSLWHPDQ\KLVWRULRJUDSKLFDODWWHVWDWLRQV7KHZULWLQJVRI,VODPLFKLVWRULDQVVXFKDV$O4LIWLDQG,EQ$EL8VDLELD have been discounted as exaggerations by non-contemporary historians, and the lack of primary Pahlavi sources blamed for historical hyperbole. In this essay, I have attempted to show through primary Syriac Christian texts, that there was both a medical school and a bimarestan in Gondeshapur in pre-Islamic Sassanid era, and that Galenic medical texts had been translated and taught in that institution. Cite this article as: Nayernouri T. Gondeshapur Revisited; What Historical Evidence? Arch Iran Med. 2017; 20(4): 254 – 260. Introduction a retrospective historiography initiated by the Bokhtishu family of Nestorian Christian physicians at the court of the Caliphs in n 2008, I read a review of Noga Arikha’s book ‘Passion and Baghdad, who originally hailed from Gondeshapur, and “who Tempers: A history of Humours’ by Vivian Nutton in the forged a narrative which would provide them with a mythical and I 1HZ(QJODQG-RXUQDORI0HGLFLQH>1RYHPEHU@,Q glorious past to give more weight and depth to their position at the that review, Nutton dismissed Gondeshapur as “a provincial back court.1>SDJH@ water” which could not have had a “crucial role in the transmission As an unkind quirk of circumstances, there are very few extant of humoural medicine to the Arab world”. written records of Iranian history, whether from the times of the Having sent a scathing email to Nutton, stating that I had Achamenids, the Parthians or the Sassanian era; a time span WDNHQ ³XPEUDJH DW WKLV XQTXDOL¿HG DQG KLVWRULFDOO\ LQVHQVLWLYH of over a thousand years, such that primary Iranian sources statement”, and mentioned the writings of several historians of throughout these years is minimal. -
The Acts of M¯Ar M¯Ar¯I the Apostle
The Acts of Mar¯ Mar¯ ¯ı the Apostle www.malankaralibrary.com Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Greco-Roman World John T. Fitzgerald, General Editor Editorial Board David Armstrong Elizabeth Asmis Brian E. Daley, S.J. David G. Hunter David Konstan Margaret M. Mitchell Michael J. Roberts Johan C. Thom James C. VanderKam Number The Acts of Mar¯ Mar¯ ¯ı the Apostle Volume Editor Susan Ashbrook Harvey www.malankaralibrary.com The Acts of Mar¯ Mar¯ ¯ı the Apostle Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Amir Harrak Society of Biblical Literature Atlanta www.malankaralibrary.com THEACTSOFMAR¯ MAR¯ I¯ THE APOSTLE Copyright © by the Society of Biblical Literature. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by means of any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be ex- pressly permitted by the Copyright Act or in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission should be addressed in writing to the Rights and Per- missions Department, Society of Biblical Literature, Houston Mill Road, Suite , Atlanta, GA , USA. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Acts of Mar Mari. English. The acts of Mar¯ Mar¯ ¯ı the apostle / translated from Syriac with an intro- duction and notes by Amir Harrak. p. cm. -- (Writings from the Greco-Roman world ; ) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-: ---- (paper binding : alk. paper) ISBN-: --- (paper binding : alk. paper) . Mari, Saint. Christian saints--Syria. Christian saints--Iraq. Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. -. I. Harrak, Amir. -
The Apostolic Succession of the Right Rev. Gregory Wayne Godsey
The Apostolic Succession of The Right Rev. Gregory Wayne Godsey © 2012-2016, Old Catholic Churches International, Inc Office of Communications and Media Relations All Rights Reserved 1 Contents Certificates ................................................................................................................................................... 3 Photographic Evidence ............................................................................................................................... 5 Lines of Apostolic Succession..................................................................................................................... 6 Reformed Episcopal – Anglican Succession .......................................................................................... 6 Anglican, Celtic, Hebraic Succession [Line 1]...................................................................................... 12 Anglican, Celtic, Hebraic Succession [Line 2]...................................................................................... 17 Anglican, Roman, Johnanite Succession .............................................................................................. 22 Russian-Orthodox Succession [Line 1]................................................................................................ 26 Russian-Orthodox Succession [Line 2]................................................................................................ 31 Armenian Succession ........................................................................................................................... -
UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA, IRVINE Narrative and Iranian
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE Narrative and Iranian Identity in the New Persian Renaissance and the Later Perso-Islamicate World DISSERTATION submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in History by Conrad Justin Harter Dissertation Committee: Professor Touraj Daryaee, Chair Professor Mark Andrew LeVine Professor Emeritus James Buchanan Given 2016 © 2016 Conrad Justin Harter DEDICATION To my friends and family, and most importantly, my wife Pamela ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page LIST OF FIGURES iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS v CURRICULUM VITAE vi ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION vii CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 2: Persian Histories in the 9th-12th Centuries CE 47 CHAPTER 3: Universal History, Geography, and Literature 100 CHAPTER 4: Ideological Aims and Regime Legitimation 145 CHAPTER 5: Use of Shahnama Throughout Time and Space 192 BIBLIOGRAPHY 240 iii LIST OF FIGURES Page Figure 1 Map of Central Asia 5 iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to express my gratitude to all of the people who have made this possible, to those who have provided guidance both academic and personal, and to all those who have mentored me thus far in so many different ways. I would like to thank my advisor and dissertation chair, Professor Touraj Daryaee, for providing me with not only a place to study the Shahnama and Persianate culture and history at UC Irvine, but also with invaluable guidance while I was there. I would like to thank my other committee members, Professor Mark LeVine and Professor Emeritus James Given, for willing to sit on my committee and to read an entire dissertation focused on the history and literature of medieval Iran and Central Asia, even though their own interests and decades of academic research lay elsewhere. -
The Early Spread of Christianity in Central Asia and the Far East: a New Document
Asia Research Associates reprint of 1 The John Rylands Library, Vol. 9, July 1925, No. 2, pp 287-288 and 297-371 *Note regarding ARA reprint: For purposes of convenience in re-publishing as well as for print-outs we have re-formatted the work to A4 size paper. Be mindful, therefore, that the page and footnote numbers of this version do not correspond to the original. Any comments or typographical corrections of this manuscript may be sent to [email protected] BULLETIN OF THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY MANCHESTER Edited by the Librarian Vol.9 JULY, 1925 No.2 LIBRARY NOTES AND NEWS The present issue contains an important study of the spread of Christianity in Central Asia and the Far East, by Dr. Mingana, which will be upon the subject, THE EARLY until such time as further documents and inscriptions are brought CHURCH IN to light. CENTRAL ASIA The area covered extends from the Central Persia of our day, to the extremity of the continent of Asia, and includes the North- Eastern and South – Eastern parts of Persia, Afganistan, Russian and Chinese Turkestan, Mongolia, China, and Manchuria. The study is divided into three sections. The first section is devoted to the collection and translation of all the Syriac and Christian Arabic documents dealing with the subject. These have been supplemented by all the remaining traces and monuments found in European and Asiatic libraries and museums, which also have a bearing upon the subject. The second section consists of a full description of a new Syriac document of a great importance, apparently unique, found in a manuscript recently acquired by the library, which deals with the early introduction of Christianity into East and West Turkestan and North China. -
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