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Part of a classic trilogy on Oriental Christianity that had a ground-breaking effect in bringing an awareness of the broader Christian world to Westerners. It remains the most readable and authoritative source on the churches to the east of Rome. This volume is on the Uniate Eastern Churches.

A thoroughly descriptive account of Chinese Buddhism that describes its history and different schools. The author uses Buddhist literature to describe the faith’s moral system, calendar, images, procession, and literature.

A study on all the social and historical aspects of Mari and Karana, this book provides an account of life in the nineteenth century BCE. Illustrations with photographs and drawings of objects uncovered during excavations provide a lively counterpart to the texts themselves, many of which are quoted in translation.

The book was written to give in a permanent form some account of the excavations undertaken in 1873 and 1874 on the site of Nineveh, and the principle discoveries which have resulted from these operations.

The only history of Syriac literature to make use of hundreds of manuscripts from the east.

O’Leary gives a survey of the Syriac Church and its Fathers based on lectures delivered in Bristol University College. They were intended to serve as an introduction to Syriac literature.