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First Christian Hymnal The Songs of the Ancient Jerusalem Church: Parallel Georgian-English Texts
ISBN: HB: 9781944394684, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, April 2019
338 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This collection offers the first English translation of the oldest known Christian hymnal, a book of hymns which was compiled in Jerusalem during the later 4th or early 5th century. "The First Christian Hymnal" offers an unmatched resource for unders...
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£38,00
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Patriarch and the Caliph An Eighth-Century Dialogue between Timothy I and al-Mahdi
ISBN: HB: 9780842529891, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2018
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Patriarch and the Caliph" presents the famous "dialogue without resolution" between the third Abbasid Caliph, al-Mahdi, and the first Nestorian Patriarch, Timothy I, in Baghdad in 781 CE. The abundance of versions of this intellectually rich deb...
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£40,00
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Three Christian Martyrdoms from Early Islamic Palestine Passion of Peter of Capitolias, Passion of the Twenty Martyrs of Mar Saba, Passion of Romanos the Neo-Martyr
ISBN: HB: 9780842529884, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2017
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A distinctive feature of Christian culture in early Islamic Syria and Palestine was a renewed interest in literature on martyrs, which represented a potential reaction among some Christian communities to the rise of Islam in the region. The adaption...
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£37,50
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Bountiful Harvest Essays in Honor of S. Kent Brown
ISBN: HB: 9780842528047, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2012
482 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 figures, 1 colour illus.
Over the course of his forty-year career, S. Kent Brown, professor of religious studies, has taught and inspired thousands of students at Brigham Young University and has produced over one hundred publications and several films in the fields of early...
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£15,00
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