{"product_id":"invitation-to-syriac-christianity-an-anthology-9780520299207","title":"Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology","description":"Despite their centrality to the history of Christianity in the East, Syriac Christians have generally been excluded from modern accounts of the faith. Originating from Mesopotamia, Syriac Christians quickly spread across Eurasia, from Turkey to China, developing a distinctive and influential form of Christianity that connected empires. These early Christians wrote in the language of Syriac, the lingua franca of the late ancient Middle East, and a dialect of Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Collecting key foundational Syriac texts from the second to the fourteenth centuries, this anthology provides unique access to one of the most intriguing, but least known, branches of the Christian tradition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Philip Penn\u003c\/b\u003e is Teresa Hihn Moore Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eWhen Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEnvisioning Islam: Syriac Christians in the Early Muslim World, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eScott Fitzgerald Johnson \u003c\/b\u003eis Joseph F. Paxton Presidential Associate Professor and Chair of Classics and Letters at the University of Oklahoma. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. He is author of \u003ci\u003eLiterary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003eThe Life and Miracles of Thekla: A Literary Study\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity, \u003c\/i\u003e among other volumes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristine Shepardson\u003c\/b\u003e is Lindsay Young Professor and Department Head of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee. She is author of \u003ci\u003eAnti-Judaism and Christian Orthodoxy: Ephrem's Hymns in Fourth-Century Syria\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eControlling Contested Places: Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eDealing with Difference: Christian Patterns of Response to Religious Rivalry in Late Antiquity and Beyond.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles M. Stang\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Early Christian Thought and Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. He is author of \u003ci\u003eOur Divine Double\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eApophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite: \"No Longer I.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50863392719122,"sku":"9780520299207","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_24dee761-14a6-467f-8244-d50e299f82d5.jpg?v=1737635427","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/invitation-to-syriac-christianity-an-anthology-9780520299207","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}