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Little is left that testifies to the life of the Church of the East
in the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries. What we have, are
manuscripts written by mostly clerical scribes for mostly clerical
readers. There is much that suggests, however, that these texts
functioned in a much wider circle than merely that of the learned.
This study takes the scribal production of texts, from the Holy
Scriptures to the first traces of popular writing, as its main
source to analyze the major changes that took place in the Church
of the East in the period. The most important of these was the
introduction of Western Catholicism, which ultimately led to the
creation of two separate hierarchies, today's Chaldean Church and
the Assyrian Church of the East. How this community dealt with
these monumental changes, how that affected everything from the
production of texts to the fabric of society as a whole, and how
that contributes to our understanding of this Church's modern day
off-shoots, is the topic of this study.
The book contains evidence of the identity of the Nestorians, an
account of their manners, customes and ceremonies, together with
sketches of travel in ancient Assyria, Armenia, Media, and
Mesopotamia, illustration of Scripture prophecy, and appendices.
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