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Thomasine Metamorphosis: Community, Text and Transmission from Greek to Coptic

David W. Kim

David W. Kim (PhD, Sydney) is a visiting research fellow at New College, University of Edinburgh, UK. His research includes Nag Hammadi Literature, Coptic Gnostic Studies, NT, Dead Sea Scrolls, early Christianity, Contemporary Christianity, and Asian Religions. He has written The Community Rules of Thomas in the ‘Fifth Gospel’, Revival Awaken Generations, The Wind-Blowing Desert: Thomasine Scholarship, Women in the Qumran Community, How Korean Christians in Diaspora Read the Hebrew Canon?, and Mary and Her Public Actions in Thomas. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Intercultural Transmission in the Medieval Mediterranean

Continuum, 2012

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...The Thomas people were initially a branch of the Jesus movement, composed under the individual leadership of Thomas, based on his own revelation and belief. If this is so, some questions should be considered, such as: What was the social...

Desert fathers, pillar-saints and fasting

Andrew Jotischky

Andrew Jotischky is Professor of Medieval History at Lancaster University, UK. He has published widely on aspects of medieval religious history; his principal publications include Crusading and the Crusader States (2004), and The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Bible Lands, with Caroline Hull (2009). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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A Hermit’s Cookbook : Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages

Continuum, 2011

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...Grazing We have already met in passing Onuphrios and his dates, Anthony and his bread and salt, Heron’s wild-lettuce diet, and Hilarion and his half-cooked lentils. Jerome, in his Life of Hilarion, was very precise about the kinds...

Suhrawardi (1154–1191)

Bruce V. Foltz

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Bruce Foltz is a Professor of Philosophy at Eckerd College, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Mohammad Azadpur

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Mohammad Azadpur

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David Bradshaw

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David Bradshaw

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Peter Casarella

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Peter Casarella

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Eric D. Perl

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Eric D. Perl

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Sarah Pessin

Sarah Pessin

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Bernard McGinn

Bernard McGinn

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Medieval Philosophy : A Multicultural Reader

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...The Persian philosopher and mystic Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā Suhrawardī (1154–1191 CE) is the founder of the Illuminationist school of Islamic philosophy. He was involved in the court of the Ayyubid prince, al-Ẓāhir, in Aleppo, and was executed...

The Central Thughūr: The Two Amuqs

A. Asa Eger

A. Asa Eger is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He holds a PhD in Islamic Archaeology from the University of Chicago. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Islamic–Byzantine Frontier : Interaction and Exchange Among Muslim and Christian Communities

I.B.Tauris, 2015

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...You will depart and alight at a meadow with ruins (marj dhī ṭulūl).Nu‘aym b Ḥammad, Kitāb al-Fitan, MS Brit. Mus. Or, 9449, folios 119b–20a, translated by W Madelung, ‘Apocalpytic Prophecies in Hims in the Umayyad Age’, Journal of Semitic...

The Vita of Andronikos and Athanasia

Anne P. Alwis

Anne P. Alwis is Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent, UK. Her research interests lie in hagiography, narrative and gender in late Antiquity and Byzantium. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Celibate Marriages in Late Antique and Byzantine Hagiography : The Lives of Saints Julian and Basilissa, Andronikos and Athanasia, and Galaktion and Episteme

Bloomsbury Academic, 2011

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The Central Thughūr: the Steppe and the River

A. Asa Eger

A. Asa Eger is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He holds a PhD in Islamic Archaeology from the University of Chicago. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Islamic–Byzantine Frontier : Interaction and Exchange Among Muslim and Christian Communities

I.B.Tauris, 2015

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...And we found all the country between Halab and Antakiya populous, nowhere ruined abodes of any description. On the contrary, the soil was everywhere sown with wheat and barley, which grew under the olive trees; the villages ran continuous...

The Late Sasanian Court and Divine Economy

R. Todd Godwin

R. Todd Godwin received his PhD from the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), University of London, and now lectures at the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, UK and in the United States at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He has published in peer-reviewed journals on the early medieval Church of the East. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Persian Christians at the Chinese Court : The Xi’an Stele and the Early Medieval Church of the East

I.B.Tauris, 2018

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...Introduction The scholarship of Antonino Forte (1940–2006) stands as a leading edge of the research on Iranians in Tang China. The designation ‘Persian Religion’ [Bosi jiao, 波斯教] given by the Tang court to the Church of the East prompted...

Prologue: Upland Settlements in the Late Roman Period (Fourth to Seventh Centuries)

A. Asa Eger

A. Asa Eger is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He holds a PhD in Islamic Archaeology from the University of Chicago. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Islamic–Byzantine Frontier : Interaction and Exchange Among Muslim and Christian Communities

I.B.Tauris, 2015

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...We have hills, either in our own territory or around it; some bisect the plain, others, with a broad sweep enclose the entrance or bar it in at the outer limits. Some of them differ in appearance from the level plains, for they are raised...

The Eastern Thughūr

A. Asa Eger

A. Asa Eger is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He holds a PhD in Islamic Archaeology from the University of Chicago. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Islamic–Byzantine Frontier : Interaction and Exchange Among Muslim and Christian Communities

I.B.Tauris, 2015

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...Then Mar Theodota went out to go to the region of the fortresses [al-ḥuṣūn] and passed by Bīlū and Pīlīn and the rest of the districts that are there. So he said to his disciple, ‘Joseph, my Son, let us go and visit those Syrian Orthodox...

The Vita of Galaktion and Episteme

Anne P. Alwis

Anne P. Alwis is Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent, UK. Her research interests lie in hagiography, narrative and gender in late Antiquity and Byzantium. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Celibate Marriages in Late Antique and Byzantine Hagiography : The Lives of Saints Julian and Basilissa, Andronikos and Athanasia, and Galaktion and Episteme

Bloomsbury Academic, 2011

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