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Twenty-four contributions on matters dealing with Byzantine and
Oriental lands, people, and cultures through different
perspectives, including history, maritime trade, documents,
travelers, and art. These essays trace the history of the relations
between the Greeks and the peoples of the Middle East from Late
Antiquity up to the seventeenth century.
This volume contains papers from the First International Congress
on Eastern Christianity held in Cordoba, Spain, November 2005. The
encounter of medieval Christian writers with several linguistic
traditions through the Middle Ages produced one of the most
important branches of Middle Eastern literature. This encounter not
only changed the nature of the respective writings throughout time,
but also influenced considerably the development of the legacies
transmitted by the writers and the scholars of various Eastern
Christian churches.
The account of the Martyrs of Najran has hitherto been known only
through the Greek and the Syriac textual tradition, but this book
offers an analysis of the original Arabic account to provide
information about the most important details, and for identifying
the original text of the Arabic version. A comparative study of the
contents and structure of the tragic events which took place in the
South Arabian city of Najran as they were narrated in the Arabic
recension contained in the MS Sinaitic Arabic 535.
This book, which gathers seventeen contributions, investigates some
lexical and textual aspects in the 'sacred texts' - like the Bible
in its several textual traditions, and the Qur'ān -, particulary
those elements that serve to provide the textual structure with a
lexical-semantic framework. These contributions have been focused
on several linguistic aspects: etymologies, loanwords, the symbolic
or figurative values of the terms used in the text, the syntagmatic
potential of the words, and the literary reflection of the terms
like the basic reading of the text and its subsequent
comprehension.
A Spanish translation of George Kiraz's popular New Syriac Primer.
This fruitful integration of scholarly introduction and practical
application provides a primer that is more than a simple grammar or
syntactic introduction to the language. Written in a style designed
for beginners, Kiraz avoids technical language and strives for a
reader-friendly inductive approach.
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