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Snakes in Petra

Series: Analecta Gorgiana 1003
ISBN: 978-1-61719-833-5
This article provides some new information about the role of snakes in relation to Nabataean religion, presenting a small group of unknown snake monuments from Petra.
$42.00 (USD) $25.20 (USD)
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Les Langues et les Littératures Araméennes

ISBN: 978-1-61143-011-0
Jean Baptiste Chabot, who produced works like Synodicon Orientale, surveys the different branches of the Aramaic Aramaic languages and their extant literature in theology, science, and history, as well as inscriptions at archaeological sites. Chabot demonstrates his expertise in the field, drawing from sources as diverse as the Samaritan Bible and the Talmud, Oriental Christianity, Babylon and Mesopotamia. Originally written in 1910, it will still be of interest to scholars in the fields of Aramaic, linguistics, Syriac studies and Eastern Christianity.
$141.00 (USD) $84.60 (USD)
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Petits Traités Apologétiques de Yahya ben Adi (Maqālāt li-Yahya ibn Adi)

Texte Arabe Édité pour la Première Fois d’Après les Manuscrits de Paris, de Rome et de Munich, et Traduit en Français
Edited and Translated by Augustin Périer
ISBN: 978-1-61143-058-5
This volume is a good quality reprint of the 1920 edition of Augustin Périer's classic text. It will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of philosophy, theology and Christian Arabic studies.
$157.00 (USD) $94.20 (USD)
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Journal of Language Relationship 8

Volume 8
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0190-6
The Journal of Language Relationship is an international periodical publication devoted to the issues of comparative linguistics and the history of the human language. The Journal contains articles written in English and Russian, as well as scientific reviews, discussions and reports from international linguistic conferences and seminars.
$74.00 (USD) $44.40 (USD)
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Journal of Anthropology

Printed Edition
Edited by Marco Menicocci
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0212-5
AOJA is an multilingual European project that collect studies in the fields of physical and cultural anthropology, and of the disciplines related to. It offers original researches by scholars of merit and young researchers, with particular attention to proposals by Asian and developing countries authors.
$78.00 (USD) $46.80 (USD)
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Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome

ISBN: 978-1-61143-914-4
Romans attached nuanced implications to color-terms which went beyond their literal meaning, using these terms as a form of cultural assessment, defining their social values and order. By analyzing the use and color words in specific contexts, we can gain greater insight into the Roman mind.
$134.00 (USD) $80.40 (USD)
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The Account of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Yūḥanun Bar Šay Allāh (1483–1492)

The Syriac Manuscript of Cambridge: DD.3.8(1)
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0213-2
This volume provides an analysis of a late fifteenth century document, a hitherto unpublished narration of the life and accomplishments of Yūḥanun Bar Šay Allāh, a fifteenth-century Syriac Orthodox Patriarch. It includes considerable unique historical information, shedding light on the history of the Syriac community in relation to other communities. It also supplies descriptions of events that brought important changes to the Syriac Church in Mesopotamia, Syria and Egypt.
$106.00 (USD) $63.60 (USD)
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Commentary on Myron

Translation and Introduction by Fr. Baby Varghese
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0214-9
Moses bar Kepha: Commentary on Myron is an important witness to the history of the West Syriac Liturgy. Fr. Baby Varghese has translated the Syriac text into English for the first time.
$37.00 (USD) $22.20 (USD)
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Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 12

Edited by Amir Harrak
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0216-3
Volume 12 includes articles by Françoise Briquel Chatonnet, Kyle Smith, Adam Lehto, Mar Awa David Royel, Bernard Heyberger, Nasir al-Kaʿbi, Amir Harrak and Khalid Dinno.
$75.00 (USD) $45.00 (USD)
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The Story of Mar Pinhas

Edited and Translated by Adam Carter McCollum
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0217-0
This volume contains the Syriac Life of Mar Pinhas, a purported martyr under the Sasanian Empire. This edition contains the Syriac text (first published in 1894 by Paul Bedjan), an English translation, explanatory annotations, and Addai Scher's Arabic version of the story.
$32.00 (USD) $19.20 (USD)