The selected articles presented here, several updated by their authors, have marked the field of Eastern Christian studies in recent decades. The comparative approach enables the reader to better grasp the exceptional impact of the cultural contacts among Christians in the East. This volume aims to be a useful tool by offering a synthesis of the research investigations and methodological approaches on Eastern Christianity as a crossroads of cultures.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
Nina GARSOÏAN .............................................................................. IX
INTRODUCTION
Florence JULLIEN, “Eastern Christianity: A Crossroads of Cultures” .......................................................................................... 1
EXCHANGES AND ENCOUNTERS
Jean Maurice FIEY, “Coptes et syriaques : contacts et échanges,”
Studia Orientalia Christiana. Collectanea, 15. Études – Documents –
Bibliographie (1972-1973), pp. 295-365 ........................................ 49
Johannes DEN HEIJER, “Les patriarches coptes d’origine syrienne,”
in Studies on the Christian Arabic Heritage in Honour of Father
Prof. Dr. Samir Khalil Samir S.I. at the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth
Birthday, eds. R. Y. Ebied and H. Teule, Eastern Christian Studies, 5
(Louvain, 2004), pp. 45-64 ........................................................... 125
Sebastian P. BROCK, “Syriac Literature: A Crossroads of Cultures,”
Actes du IXe Symposium Syriacum. Parole de l’Orient, 31 (2006),
pp. 17-35 ....................................................................................... 151
SHAPING NEW IDENTITIES
Stephen H. RAPP Jr., “Christian Caucasian Dialogues: Glimpses of
Armeno-Kʿartʿvelian Relations in Medieval Georgian Historiography,”
in Peace and Negotiation: Strategies for Coexistence in
the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. D. Wolfthal, Arizona
Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, IV (Turnhout, 2000),
pp. 163-178 ................................................................................... 177
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Witold WITAKOWSKI, “Syrian Influences in Ethiopian Culture,”
Orientalia Suecana, 38/39 (1989-1990), pp. 191-220 ................. 201
Witold WITAKOWSKI, “Syrian Influences in Ethiopia,”Encyclopaedia
Aethiopica, 4 (2010), col. 782b-784b ............................... 227
Robert W. THOMSON, “Syrian Christianity and the Conversion of
Armenia,” in Die Christianisierung des Kaukasus. The Christianization
of Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, Albania). Referate des
internationalen Symposions (Wien, 9-12 Dez. 1999), ed. W. Seibt,
Denkschriften der phil.-hist. Klasse, 296. Veröffentlichungen der
Kommission für Byzantinistik, IX (Wien, 2002), pp. 159-169 ... 233
CULTURES IN DIALOGUE
Antonio PANAINO, “The Pāzand Version of the Our Father,” in
Inkulturation des Christentum im Sasanidenreich, eds. A. Mustafa
and J. Tubach (Wiesbaden, 2007), pp. 73-90 ............................... 257
Philippe GIGNOUX, “L’apport scientifique des chrétiens syriaques à
l’Iran sassanide,”Journal Asiatique, 289, fascicule, 2 (2001),
pp. 217-236 ................................................................................... 283
Henri HUGONNARD-ROCHE, “Les traductions du grec au syriaque et
du syriaque à l’arabe (à propos de l’Organon d’Aristote),” in
Rencontres de cultures dans la philosophie médiévale. Traductions et
traducteurs de l’Antiquité tardive au XIVe siècle,Actes du colloque
international de Cassino, 15-17 juin 1989, eds J. Hamesse et
M. Fattori, Publications de l’Institut d’Études médiévales. Textes,
Études, Congrès, 11. Rencontres de Philosophie Médiévale, 1
(Louvain-la-Neuve – Cassino, 1990), pp. 131-147 ...................... 305