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This early history of the Church of the East was part of a volume issued to commemorate the exhibition of thirty Syriac inscriptions from Central Asia at the Musee Guimet.
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
Availability: In stock
SKU (ISBN): 978-1-61143-832-1
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Publication Status: In Print
Publication Date: Nov 13,2013
Interior Color: Black
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Page Count: 197
Language: French
ISBN: 978-1-61143-832-1
$168.00

When Imperial Russia began to discover evidence of Syriac Chrisitianity in Russian Turkestan, she shared some of the finds with her French allies. This survey of the early history of the Church of the East by a distinguished historian of Christianity was part of the volume issued to commemorate the exhibition of thirty inscriptions at the Musée Guimet. Now difficult to obtain, it describes the excavations, tells the history of the Church, its origins in Persia, its expansion under the Arab Conquest, and its travails under the Turks, the Mongols, and the Chinese. There are two appendices, one containing rubbings and transcriptions of the thirty exhibits, more detailed than Chwolsohn's publication in Saint Petersburg, (also available from Gorgias Press), the other a detailed description of the Nestorian Stele of Siganfu.

When Imperial Russia began to discover evidence of Syriac Chrisitianity in Russian Turkestan, she shared some of the finds with her French allies. This survey of the early history of the Church of the East by a distinguished historian of Christianity was part of the volume issued to commemorate the exhibition of thirty inscriptions at the Musée Guimet. Now difficult to obtain, it describes the excavations, tells the history of the Church, its origins in Persia, its expansion under the Arab Conquest, and its travails under the Turks, the Mongols, and the Chinese. There are two appendices, one containing rubbings and transcriptions of the thirty exhibits, more detailed than Chwolsohn's publication in Saint Petersburg, (also available from Gorgias Press), the other a detailed description of the Nestorian Stele of Siganfu.

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  • L'EXPANSION NESTORIENNE EN ASIE PAR F. NAU (page 5)
  • RBBAN CAUMA PUT VENERER ENSUNTE TOUTES LES (page 97)
  • APPENDICE I-LES PIERRES TOMBALES NESTORIENNES DU MUSEE GUIMET (page 113)
  • APPENDICE II-LA STELE NESTORIENNE DE SI-NGAN-FOU (page 159)
  • I. ILLSTOTRE LITTERAIRE (page 159)
  • II. ANALYSE (page 163)
  • III. TRADUCTION (page 164)
  • PREMIERE PARTIE (page 165)
  • DEUXIEME PARTIE (page 172)
  • TROISIEME PARTIE (page 187)
  • QUATRIEME PARTIE (page 192)
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