Article: Syriac Christianity under late Sasanian and early Islamic rule.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: The large vault at Taq-i Bustan; a study in late ...
Reference & Research Book News;  February 1, 2006 ;     505 words ...0773460756 The large vault at Taq-i Bustan; a study in late Sasanian royal art. Movassat, Johanna Domela. Edwin Mellen Pr. 2005 242 pages $119.95 Hardcover DS262 In this study, Movassat ...

Article: History and Religion in Late Antique Syria
The Catholic Historical Review;  October 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... labored to transform the study of Syriac Christianity from the stepchild of theology to ... problems related to the roots of Syriac Christianity were re-examined. He studied ... throughout that the roots of early Syriac Christianity are to be found in middle-Platonic ...

Article: Christianity in the Second Century: The Case of Tatian.(Book ...
Journal of Church and State;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Finally, she surveyed the connection between Tatian and Syriac Christianity, acknowledging Tatian's clear relationship with (and probable influence on) the development of Syriac Christianity while simultaneously asserting that accusations of ...

Article: Upcoming Events
The Washington Post;  June 3, 1995 ;     540 words ... ... Gloria" will be the featured works.703-892-2565. SYRIAC CHRISTIANITY FORUM "Syriac Symposium IIQSyria at the Crossroads ... Interchange in Late Antiquity," a presentation of 50 papers on Syriac Christianity, early Islam and other topics pertaining to Syria and ...

Article: The Hidden Pearl: The Syrian Orthodox Church and Its Ancient ...
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... churches, and monasteries of antiquity. The expansion of Syriac Christianity is recounted region by region. The volume concludes with ... been found. Although vol. 3 deals mainly with modern Syriac Christianity, its lengthy chapter on "The Bible in Syriac" (pp ...

Article: Armenia's artistic bridge from East to West
International Herald Tribune;  April 28, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Syria, inspired the triangular tops flanking the rounded arch of a niche, but the outfits of the Magi are borrowed from late Sasanian conventions, as the art historian Andre Grabar noted long ago.Riddles continue to stake out the evolution of Armenian ...

Article: Dualism in Transformation: Varieties of Religion in Sasanian ...
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... separate, rather than conflate, apocalyptic notions and eschatology. As Shaked himself notes, "Pahlavi literature of the late Sasanian and early Muslim period is practically obsessed with descriptions of visions of the hereafter" (p. 46). These were then ...