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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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Pritula A., Leiden: Brill, 2025.
ʿAḇdīšōʿ of Gazarta: Patriarch, Poet and Scribe focuses on the literary legacy of the prominent East Syrian poet and churchman who lived in the 16th century. The role of ʿAḇdīšōʿ of Gazarta for East Syriac ecclesiastical poetry is significant. He was the second patriarch of the Chaldean Church and the founder of its literary tradition.
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Cherkashina A., Lyavdansky A., Rashid D., , in: From Moscow to Baghdad: Studies on Middle Eastern Christianity in Memory of Nikolai Seleznyov.: Brill, 2026. P. 389–455.
This article explores examples of influence from the Arabic magical traditions, both Christian and Muslim, that can be found in modern Syriac magical manuscripts. The following aspects of Arabic influence are discussed: visual elements (diagonal writing, kharaktēres, pseudo-Arabic script), terminology, texts containing Arabic formulae, magical practices, angels and demons (Gabriel and Michael, Tebʿā), and magic ...
Added: May 1, 2025
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. ...
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. 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, ...
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. 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 ...
Added: November 19, 2024
Lyavdansky A., , in: La religion populaire des chrétiens de tradition syriaque (Études syriaques 19).: P.: Librairie orientaliste Paule Geuthner S. A., 2024. P. 405–429.
This paper purports to open a new direction in the study of Syriac charms. It is still welcome to publish hitherto unedited manuscripts, but it is more important to classify and typologize these texts. The objective of this paper is to present one of the possible ways to classify Syriac charms. This classification is primarily ...
Added: November 17, 2024
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
Pritula A., Aramaic Studies 2024 Vol. 22 No. 1 P. 74–104
This article examines poems dedicated to the martyr Qūryāqōs by the eminent East Syriac poet and patriarch ʿAḇdīšōʿ of Gāzartā (d. 1570). For the first time the peculiarities of these works and their place in the development of Syriac poetry are examined. Additionally, a critical edition and translation of one of the poems, the turgāmā, is given, ...
Added: November 4, 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. ...
Added: October 1, 2024
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