The Christian Heritage of Iraq

Collected papers from the Christianity of Iraq I-V Seminar Days

Iraq has been a centre of Syriac Christianity for almost two thousand years. This volume of collected papers from the Christianity in Iraq I-V Seminar Days (2004-2008) explores the Christian heritage of Iraq, highlighting the churches’ innate ability to transcend barriers of language, culture, ethnicity and religion.

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Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies13

Publication Date: Apr 5,2009

Interior Color: Black with Color Inserts

Trim Size: 6 x 9

Page Count: 324

Languages: English

ISBN: 978-1-60724-111-9

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Iraq has been a centre of Syriac Christianity for almost two thousand years. From its beginnings in the second century CE until the twenty-first century, Christianity has had a significant religious profile in Iraq, variously enriching the culture of Mesopotamia from where its influence extended into adjacent and more distant regions. This volume of collected papers from the Christianity in Iraq I-V Seminar Days (2004-2008) explores the heritage and contribution of Syriac Christianity to Iraq, highlighting its innate ability to transcend barriers of language, culture, ethnicity and religion. Papers are organized into four major sections. The first probes exchanges with the Muslim world in the Ummayid and Abbasid era. The second section investigates the legacy of monasticism that continues, albeit tenaciously, to the present day. The remarkable ‘outreach’ programme of The Church of the East in Central Asia that, amongst other things, introduced the Syriac Bible is the subject of the third section. Finally, the volume examines post-medieval responses following the ravages of the fourteenth century, which essentially confined Syriac Christianity to northern Mesopotamia. Growth and innovation are charted in various ways: in literary production as well as architecture. However, in the vernacular domain, traditional forms were maintained: particularly Neo-Aramaic dialects and the use of amulets. The entrepreneurial spirit also saw the establishment of private schools in the twentieth century; a remarkable response in view of the tragedies suffered by so many of the Christians. Today Christianity in Iraq is still confronted by many formidable challenges.

Dr. Erica C. D. Hunter is the Lecturer in Eastern Christianity, Dept. for the Study of Religions, SOAS. She is also Chair, Centre of Eastern and Orthodox Christianity, Dept. for the Study of Religions, SOAS, University of London. She is the organiser of the highly successful annual Christianity in Iraq Seminar Days (inaugurated 2004).

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	Contributor	Biography
	EricaHunter	Dr. Erica C.D. Hunter is Affiliated Researcher, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. She was Senior Lecturer in Eastern Christianity, Dept. of History, Religions and Philosophies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London until 2020. Her research interests focus on Syriac Christianity in Iraq and Syria, as well as the outreach of the Church of the East in the Caucasus, Iran, Central Asia, Afghanistan and China until 1500, with a particular interest in the Syriac material from Turfan.
	JohnHealey
	JohnWatt
	Sidney Griffith
	FlorenceJullien	Florence Jullien is an historian who currently holds the position of Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CeRMI, Paris). Her interests mainly focus on Syriac Christianity in the Sasanian era and Eastern monasticism in Late Antiquity and Middle Ages. She has published extensively in these fields, especially on the traditions of Christian communities and cultural encounters (Apôtres des confins, 2002; Eastern Christianity: a Crossroads of Cultures, 2012), hagiographical texts (the Acts of Mār Māri; Life of Mār Abba, 2015), monasticism in the Syriac world (Le monachisme en Perse, CSCO, 2008), and religious controversies.
	SebastianBrock	Emeritus Reader in Syriac Studies, Oxford University, and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. Author of a number of contributions in the area of Syriac studies (including several books published by Gorgias Press).
	SuhaRassam
	WassiliosKlein
	AlexeiSavchenko
	MarkDickens
	Heleenvan den Berg
	AmirHarrak	Amir Harrak is full professor at the University of Toronto. His specialty is Aramaic and Syriac languages and literatures. His many publications deal with Syriac epigraphy, chronography, and cataloguing of manuscripts.
	MartinTamcke
	RobinBet Shmuel
	GeoffreyKhan	Geoffrey Khan has recently been elected 'Regius Professor of Hebrew' at the University of Cambridge. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1998 and Honorary Fellow of the Academy of the Hebrew Language in 2011. In 2004 he was awarded the Lidzbarski Gold Medal for Semitic Philology.
	AnthonyO’Mahony

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