Religion

Sbath here publishes the Arabic text of The Medical Garden, a compendium of medical-philosophical definitions, the work of the last prominent member of the famous Bakhtishu‘ family of physicians, with notes and a brief introduction.

In this short work, originally published in the Festschrift for Nöldeke, Chabot gives a notice and overview of the Gannat Bussame, a commentary on the East Syriac lectionary and an important witness to the East Syriac exegetical tradition.

This catechism in the Aramaic dialect of Urmia, originally published at the Lazarist Press there, provides questions and answers regarding the Catholic faith in that language.

This is the second printing of a Catholic catechism in the Aramaic dialect of Mosul, originally published at the Dominican Press there.

This volume gathers six essays from papers presented at the 3rd Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on November 19-20, 2010. The essays explore both the technology of inscribed musical expression in the Middle Ages—especially in regard to notation—and the role that modern digital technologies play in facilitating the study of music manuscripts today. As the manuscript evidence shows, medieval music as written text was both expressive and prescriptive in shaping music-making practices, performance, and reception.

This manual, in Arabic and originally published at the Dominican Press in Mosul, contains the complete cycle of praying the Rosary, together with a guide for hearing the Mass.

Clemens Joseph David (1829-1890) here studies the practices and laws of engagement and marriage among Syriac Catholics with an eye to Roman Canon Law on these aspects.

The High Church position, as of the Diamond Jubilee: after much turbulence and political interference, can the Bishops, advised by liturgists, reach a Victorian Settlement of the ceremonies of the Church of England?

A classic study of the earlist Christianity, this volume attempts to solve the problem of the relation of Jesus and Paul, by arguing that Paul knew and used the common source of Matthew and Luke.

This book presents parallel texts of the Acts of the Three Martyrs of Edessa; the Syriac text is translated into German, Greek, and Latin.

One of the first great popular presentations of geology; presents geology as consistent with and supporting revelation.

This book examines Paul as a hybrid of both Jewish and early Christian traditions meeting at the crossroads of a commonly-shared Hellenistic culture.

Beginning with the history of the formation of the first Christian churches, this work begins with an extensive source criticism of the text of Acts, a history of the Church of Jerusalem, and the organization and action of Paul's mission to the Gentiles.

This book explores baptism in the ancient world, the sects which practiced it, their history, origins, characters, diversity, and influences.

This volume, written by a Jesuit, discusses the history and use of liturgical garments.

This popular presentation of the life of St. Ephrem in sixteen chapters in Arabic, originally printed at the Dominican Press in Mosul, covers Ephrem’s life and activity from his birth. Final chapters touch on his writings and doctrine.

This volume contains the Arabic version of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the shorter form of the Divine Office for the Virgin.

This volume presents a summary catechism in Arabic for young students and includes a number of prayers and an overview of Christian beliefs, duties, and means of sanctification.

A guide to, and abbreviation of, the standard code of Jewish law, the Shulhan Aruch

The linen ornaments of the Anglican Cummunion, copiously considered, with plates and drawings.

A summary of the difficulties of the conversion of Islam and a seven-point program to overcome them.

Leak provides a survey of Islam, and its relations to Christendom. His work involves the history, distribution, doctrines, and practice of Islam, and argues that the utter unlikeness of Allah is equivalent to agnosticism.

This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in Volume 9 (2009) of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.

The volume collects selected papers from the fifth annual APECSS conference which focused on the topic of letters from Christian Antiquity. The conference papers deal with epistolography from the apostle Paul up to Theodore the Studite (ninth century), considered in different aspects, namely, historiography of studies, literary form, Church history, dogmatic contents, attribution, etc. Other patristic studies include hagiography, liturgics, Christian art, early Egyptian monasticism, Islamic-Christian relations in the Middle Ages, and the Jewish background of Christianity.

This book completely redefines our understanding of fin de siècle Anglo-Jewish author Amy Levy and her writing. Demonstrating that Levy’s writing is less anti-Judaic and more profoundly influenced by the religious concerns of classical German Reformism, Luke Devine's innovative approach reveals that Levy's writing constitutes a genre whose female subjectivity evinces a concern for justice and authority that prefigures numerous aspects of Second-Wave Jewish feminist theory and its spiritual and theological underpinnings.