#Syriac

James E. Walters

jedwardwalters

A short cataloging thread, if you want to follow along a short rabbit trail I went down to identify a text:I came across a title of a Syriac hagiography called

ابن أندراوس🇻🇦

_ibnandraos

Thread: Eastern Christianity, Catholic and Orthodox can survive mass emigration and displacement by seeing its mission and gifts as universal and not as particular and bound to an ethnicity as

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lebanesefront

Old Syriac and Garshuni inscriptions in the Qadisha Valley, Lebanon (Thread) The inscriptions at the Mar Asya Monastery, which are written in Estrangelo and Serto Syriac scripts contain a liturgical

Salam Rassi | سلام راسي

salam_rassi

A few months ago, my friend @FKrimsti showed me this manuscript, Oxford, Hunt. 595. It contains works by Syriac writer Jacob of Serugh (d. 521). But what caught my eye

Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ

bdaiwi_historia

Long before Christoph Luxenberg, medieval Muslim authorities compiled lists of foreign vocabularies in the Quran. The Quran contains words from Ethiopian, Persian, Indian, Turkic, Nabatean, Syriac, Coptic, Hebrew, Greek, and

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Christian manuscripts from the Middle East, usually written in Arabic, Syriac, or Coptic, are influenced by Islamic styles but have unique characteristics. -jm These first two are from Syriac traditions,

Apologia Pro Ritam Occidentam

AbrahamGL_1

Does Fr. Adrian Fortescue’s point that the primitive Roman mass was of “an eastern type” “disprove” Western Rite Orthodoxy? (Thread) (Pictured is a diagram of altar censing in the Roman

Peter J. Williams

DrPJWilliams

THREAD: The parable of the Lost Sheep, and punctuation.I've been struggling with Jesus's story of the Lost Sheep (Luke 15:3-6 // Matthew 18:12-14).In both gospels it's set in the form

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

How do you explain the Trinity in Chinese? If you're a Christian in Tang China, there's a few ways! I'm @ChenHuailun, back for my last #Twittistorian thread, this time on

Elijah Reynolds

ejay_arr

I told an imam today that iqra in the #Quran doesn't mean "read", it means "gather!" according to the ahl al-lughah (Linguistic experts) of 7th century #arabic. He sent me

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Hi everyone, I'm @ChenHuailun, a MPhil @UniofOxford in Islamic Studies and Hist, and I'm honoured to be taking over #Twittistorian this week to talk about Christianity in Tang China (618-907).

Simcha Gross

Simcha_Gross

New Publication Wednesday! Just received the printed version of a chapter I wrote entitled "A Long Overdue Farewell: The Purported Jewish Origins of Syriac Christianity." A thread. 1/35 (sorry for

Van Der Megerdichian

DerMegerdichian

On February 6th, the Armenian Church celebrates the feast of St. Sahak Partev Catholicos. Born in Caesarea in 348 AD into the family of St. Nerses, St. Sahak Partev became

سيف النبطي

SonOfJenin

A Famous bilingual Hasaitic-Aramaic gravestone discovered in Mleiha, UAEThis gravestone is from the Pre-Islamic period. Before the Muslim Conquests & Arabization, the Natives of the East Gulf region (UAE) spoke

Hebrew Words

HebreWords

The Modern Hebrew word for turtle and tortoise is צָב, but this is not the word's meaning in the Bible (Lev. 11:29), where it refers to a kind of "unclean"

Salam Rassi | سلام راسي

salam_rassi

A very interesting perspective from @jbralston. While I understand and respect Dr Ralston’s experience, I feel that it requires redress. I’m usually loath to making these kinds of interventions, but

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