Introduction to Aramean and Syriac Studies : A Manual.

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF MAPS -- 1. Semitic languages and peoples -- 2. Arameans at the dawn of their history -- 3. The religion of ancient Arameans -- 4. The Aramaic language and its world -- 5. Osrhoene and the Aramean awakening -- 6. The spread of Christianity in Osrhoene -- 7. Syriac Christianity under the rule of Iran -- 8. Syriaс thought and literature of the first centuries of Christianity -- 9. The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church and its schisms -- 10. The split of Syriac Christianity: "Nestorians" and "Jacobites" -- 11. Other branches of Syriac Christianity: Melkites and Maronites -- 12. The writing and scribal traditions of the Syriacs -- 13. Translation activity of the Syriacs -- 14. Syriac translations of the Holy Scriptures -- 15. Syriac system of education -- 16. Syriac theology and philosophy -- 17. Worldly sciences and secular literature of the Syriacs -- 18. Syriac historiography -- 19. Syriacs under Arab-Muslim domination -- 20. Commercial and missionary activity of the Syriacs -- 21. Syriac rite Catholic Churches -- 22. The Syriacs between the Ottoman Empire, Iran, and Russia -- 23. The "Assyrian idea" and the issue of self-identitification for Syriac Christians -- 24. Syriacs in the 20th century and on the threshold of the third millennium -- 25. Modern Aramaic dialects -- 26.The current stage of the Classical Syriac Language -- 27. The origins and development of modern Aramean and Syriac studies -- APPENDIX: KLAUS BEYER'S CLASSIFICATION OF ARAMAIC DIALECTS -- SELECT BIBILIOGRAPHY -- GENERAL INDEX.

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