Invitation to Syriac Christianity : an anthology / edited by Michael Philip Penn, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Christine Shepardson, Charles M. Stang.

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

©2022

xxi, 431 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Texts translated from the Syriac; introduction and notes in English.

Despite their centrality to the history of Christianity in the East, Syriac Christians have generally been excluded from modern accounts of the faith. Originating from Mesopotamia, Syriac Christians quickly spread across Eurasia, from Turkey to China, developing a distinctive and influential form of Christianity that connected empires. These early Christians wrote in the language of Syriac, the lingua franca of the late ancient Middle East, and a dialect of Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Collecting key foundational Syriac texts from the second to the fourteenth centuries, this anthology provides unique access to one of the most intriguing, but least known, branches of the Christian tradition.

Online version: Invitation to Syriac Christianity [Oakland, California] : [University of California Press], [2022]

English

June 12, 2024

Includes bibliographical references and index.