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Dynamics of Christian Acculturation in the Sasanian Empire: Some Iranian Motifs in the Cave of Treasures
P. 149–201.
The article discusses acculturation of Syriac Christians to the culture of Sasanian empire.
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Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2014.
Minov S., , in: ‘Brouria Has Spoken Wisely’: Studies in Christian Late Antiquity and Syriac Literature in Honor of Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony.: Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2025. P. 211–230.
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Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2025.
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Minov S., Kessel G., Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 2025 Vol. 28 No. 1 P. 217–287
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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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Minov S., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2025 Vol. 21 No. 1 P. 163–206
The article presents the editio princeps, translation, and commentary of three previously unknown compositions preserved in Syriac: On Sorcerers, Diviners and Charmers by Pseudo-Gregory of Nyssa, On Bathing in Springs and Sources by Pseudo-Basil of Caesarea, and an erotapocritic compilation drawn from the Questions of Basil and Gregory and the responsa of Jacob of Edessa ...
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Minov S., Medieval Encounters 2025 Vol. 31 No. 2 P. 119–154
The article presents for the first time the Syriac text, an English translation and discussion of the surviving fragments of a newly discovered apologetic composition by Timothy I (fl. 780–823), the East Syrian patriarch of Baghdad. In this work, the catholicos defends Christian practice of veneration of the cross against possible critique by Jewish and ...
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Трифонова А. В., Lebedeva N., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Психология и педагогика 2024 Т. 21 № 2 С. 466–489
Individual-personal and contextual factors in the process
of acculturation do not act independently of each other, but collectively, demonstrating close relationships. In this regard, it is important to study the personal and
contextual factors of adaptation within the framework of a single integrated approach. This exploratory empirical study is aimed at studying the complex
personality and contextual factors ...
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Batyrshin R. I., Культурное наследие России 2024 № 1 С. 55–60
The change in the linguistic landscape is very often a consequence of the acculturation process, which is spontaneously formed by the interaction of borderline linguistic cultures, but the most common reason for these changes is the purposeful language policy of states. The author uses the example of the CIS nations to try to answer the ...
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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. ...
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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. 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. ...
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Minov S., , in: Jews and Syriac Christians: Intersections across the First Millennium (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 180).: Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. P. 187–205.
Offers a comparison of some hagiographic topoi in Syriac and Rabbinic literatures. ...
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Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020.
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Minov S., , in: A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission.: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. P. 95–137.
Offers an overview of Jewish apocryphal literature preserved in Syriac. ...
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Minov S., , in: Irano-Judaica VII: Studies Relating to Jewish Contacts with Persian Culture throughout the Ages.: Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2019. P. 473–505.
Discussan the story of Jewish-Christian conflict in Sasanian Nisibis. ...
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Minov S., , in: Scriptures, Sacred Traditions, and Strategies of Religious Subversion: Studies in Discourse with the Work of Guy G. Stroumsa (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 112).: Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. P. 167–181.
Publishes and discusses the Syriac apocrypah composition on Apostle Peter. ...
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Minov S., , in: The Embroidered Bible: Studies in Biblical Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in Honour of Michael E. Stone (Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha 26).: Leiden: Brill, 2018. P. 718–735.
The article publishes and discusses a fragment of the lost work by the East Syriac exegete Bar Saroshway. ...
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