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First Christian Hymnal The Songs of the Ancient Jerusalem Church: Parallel Georgian-English Texts

Shoemaker Stephen J.

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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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

Shoemaker Stephen J.

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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