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“For they ascend to three maḏāhib as their roots”: An Arabic Medieval Treatise on Denominations of Syrian Christianity
Ch. 5. P. 122–135.
The Book of the Concordance of Faith (Kitāb iǧtimāʿ al-amāna) is an ecumenical treatise that aims at reconciling three main denominations of Syrian Christianity: the ‘Nestorians’, the ‘Melkites’, and the ‘Jacobites’. The work is known in two recensions, one of which is ascribed to Elias al-Ǧawharī, while the other, probably the original one, is attributed to ʿAlī ibn Dāwūd al-Arfādī. Russian historians frequently referenced to the treatise as written by “Elias Geveri, the Nestorian Metropolitan,” emphasizing that the work contains a testimony to the two-finger sign of the cross current in his time among the Melkites. The article deals with the source on which these references are based to explore the ecumenical views in the medieval Christian Orient, with a special reference to the ‘roots and branches’ concept.
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Besschetnova E., Zhukova M., Соловьевские исследования 2026 № 1(89) С. 56–71
The concept of Christian unity in Russian religious philosophy is predominantly associated with Vladimir Solovyov, while the intellectual legacy of his nephew and follower, Sergey Solovyov, remains significantly under-researched. This study addresses this gap by examining the development of PhiloCatholic and ecumenical ideas in early 20th-century Russia, exploring the unique spiritual trajectory of a thinker ...
Added: April 6, 2026
Minov S., Библия и христианская древность 2025 Т. 1 [25] С. 116–150
The article publishes for the first time in complete form two Syriac texts dedicated to the figure of Empress Helena, the mother of Emperor Constantine — the correspondence with Helena from the epistolary corpus attributed to Papa bar Aggai, bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (IV c.), and the anonymous Hypomnemata about the origin of Empress Helena, in ...
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Боков Т. А., Бокова Е. М., Христианство на Ближнем Востоке 2024 Т. 8 № 4 С. 5–17
Some Legal Aspects of the Situation of the Syrian Christians During the Presidency of Bashar Asad (2000–2024) This article clarifies a number of established historiographic ideas about the legal status of Christians in the Syrian Arab Republic (SAR) in the recent period based on a substantive analysis of the SAR’s legislation, as well as field ...
Added: March 1, 2025
Minov S., Kessel G., Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 2024 Vol. 27 No. 1 P. 253–347
Provides bibliography on academic publications related to Syriac Christianity durig the year 2023. ...
Added: November 19, 2024
Minov S., , in: La religion populaire des chrétiens de tradition syriaque (Études syriaques 19).: P.: Librairie orientaliste Paule Geuthner S. A., 2024. P. 431–447.
The publication provides a comprehensive bibliography on popular religion, including magic and divination, among Syriac Christians. ...
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Minov S., , in: La religion populaire des chrétiens de tradition syriaque (Études syriaques 19).: P.: Librairie orientaliste Paule Geuthner S. A., 2024. P. 307–348.
In what follows, I provide a description of the contours of the magical discourse in relation to popular religion, as evidenced in the corpus of textual sources produced by Syriac Christians. Initially, I offer a brief excursus into the vocabulary and taxonomy of magic and divination in Syriac. This is followed by the main section, ...
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Minov S., , in: La religion populaire des chrétiens de tradition syriaque (Études syriaques 19).: P.: Librairie orientaliste Paule Geuthner S. A., 2024. P. 247–272.
This contribution offers a preliminary survey of the diverse contexts and means through which veneration of saints among Syriac Christians interacted with the lives of ordinary believers, influencing their religious practices and worldviews, and, in turn, undergoing changes as a result of their agency. However, given the scarcity of regional and period-specific studies on the ...
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P.: Librairie orientaliste Paule Geuthner S. A., 2024.
The vast majority of Syriac sources that have come down to us came from the ecclesiastical and scholarly elite. It was therefore natural for Syriac studies to focus primarily on the doctrines and normative practices promoted by these authors. Within this field of study, another historiographical vein has focused on magic and the occult sciences. ...
Added: November 17, 2024
Minov S., Символ 2012 Т. 61 С. 9–70
В этой работе нам хотелось бы затронуть тему христианско-иранской аккультурации на примере сирийского христианского сочинения, известного под названием «Пещера Сокровищ» (далее ПС). Это произведение было написано в период между серединой VI – началом VII вв. в той части северной Месопотамии, которая контролировалась Сасанидской империей. ПС относится к литературному жанру библейского парафраза, предлагая читателю изложение христианской Heilsgeschichte, где ...
Added: October 1, 2024
Minov S., Символ 2009 Т. 55 С. 9–46
Цель этой статьи – познакомить русскоязычного читателя с одним из наиболее необычных произведений в истории сирийской христианской письменности, сочинением известным под именем Пещеры сокровищ. Для первоначального ознакомления русскоязычных читателей с этим уникальным памятником сирийской культуры нами был выбран фрагмент из пяти глав (II-VI), содержащий историю Адама и Евы. Ввиду сложного состояния текста ПС, а также из-за ...
Added: October 1, 2024
Minov S., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2024 Vol. 20
The article explores history of the reception of anti-Jewish hagiographical traditions of Western origin among Syriac Christians during the Islamic period by focusing on the textual tradition of the Miracles of the Virgin, a Western collection of Marian legends that was translated into Arabic during the thirteenth century and later on, during the nineteenth century, ...
Added: October 1, 2024
Minov S., Kessel G., Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 2023 Vol. 26 No. 1 P. 189-293
A bibliography of Publications on Syriac Topics for the year 2022. ...
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Minov S., , in: Le droit en monde syriaque (Études syriaques 18).: P.: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 2023. P. 267–290.
In this article I offer an overview of the written evidence on Jews and Judaism that can be found in canonical sources of Syriac churches, for the most part of West and East Syrian traditions. By no means an exhaustive inventory of all references to Jews in this diverse corpus of texts, this preliminary survey ...
Added: October 1, 2024
Minov S., , in: The Third Lung: New Trajectories in Syriac Studies: Essays in Honor of Sebastian P. Brock.: Leiden: Brill, 2023. P. 223–234.
In this article, I would like to explore the little-tapped resource of Syriac hagiography by publishing for the first time a brief account of an unexpected friendship between a monk and a fish. Attested, as far as my knowledge goes, in two manuscripts, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Syr. f. 12, and Birmingham, Mingana Syr. 71. ...
Added: October 1, 2024
Minov S., , in: Florilegia Syriaca: Mapping a Knowledge-Organizing Practice in the Syriac World (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, texts and studies of early christian life and language, volume 179).: Leiden: Brill, 2023. P. 20–73.
In this article, I am going to present and discuss a hitherto unpublished and unstudied specimen of the testimonia literature in Syriac, which constitutes the earliest preserved representative of the genre in this language. Entitled Collection of demonstrations from the holy scriptures of the Old (Testament) against the Jews and the rest of unbelievers, this ...
Added: October 1, 2024
Minov S., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft 2024 Vol. 174 No. 1 P. 97–115
The article presents the first edition, translation, and discussion of the surviving fragments of a Syriac anti-Jewish polemic from previously unknown compositions by two East Syrian authors: catholicos Ḥenanīšōʿ (ca. 7th or 8th century) and an anonymous writer from the 9th century. In these excerpts, both polemicists defend Christian doctrine by appealing to a supersessionist ...
Added: October 1, 2024
Minov S., Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 2023 Vol. 26 No. 2 P. 415–465
This article contributes to current research on the development of Syriac Christian identity during the modern period by bringing into discussion a previously unknown literary source, the Book of the Rule, composed in the year 1829 by Sāḇā, an East Syrian priest from the village of Ūlā in the Salmas district of the Urmī region. ...
Added: October 1, 2024
Minov S., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2023 Vol. 19 No. 1 P. 290–313
Taking the newly discovered Syriac composition, entitled Story of Pawla the priest, as an example, the article explores some literary aspects of Christian hagiographical writing in the late antique Syria-Palestine in its relation to the New Testament apocryphal literature. It focuses on the author’s representation of the bathhouse as a heterotopic and liminal space, and ...
Added: October 1, 2024
Minov S., Aramaic Studies 2023 Vol. 21 No. 2 P. 185–204
This article presents the unpublished Syriac text of an anonymous anti-Jewish dialogue preserved fragmentarily in the manuscript SyrHT 94 [T ii B 50 = 1682] from the Berlin Turfan-Collection. The dialogue, which combines scriptural and rational polemical arguments, is an important witness to the development of the adversus Judaeos literary tradition among Syriac Christians during ...
Added: October 1, 2024