Third Lung: New Trajectories in Syriac Studies

Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony is Martin Buber Professor in the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of The Ladder of Prayer and the Ship of Stirrings (Peeters, 2019) and the co-editor of Origeniana Duodecima (Peeters, 2019).Miriam L. Hjälm, D.Phil (2015), is a Senior lecturer in Eastern Christian Studies at Sankt Ignatios College, University College Stockholm. She is the author of Christian Arabic Versions of Daniel (Brill, 2016) and the editor of Senses of Scripture, Treasures of Tradition (Brill, 2017).Robert A. Kitchen, D.Phil (1998), retired United Church of Canada minister. He has published studies and translations of Syriac ascetical texts, including The Book of Steps (Cistercian, 2004) and The Discourses of Philoxenos of Mabbug (Cistercian, 2013).

• ContributorsIntroduction: The Third LungRobert A. KitchenPart 1: Going Where We Should Have GoneEphrem and the Mariological Motif of Conceptio per AuremKathleen E. McVeySeeking the Women of Ancient Syriac Christianity: Strategies of Method and RemembranceSusan Ashbrook HarveyTeach Your Children Well: Martyrs, Monks, and Mothers in Severus of AntiochChristine ShepardsonThe Ladder of Prayer, the Ship of Stirrings, and the Exodus from EgyptBrouria Bitton-AshkelonyStuck between Voice and Silence: Ephrem and the Rabbis on PrayerShraga BickPart 2: Digging DeeperThe Church’s “Third Lung”: Ancient Voices from the Syriac Orient That Speak to Today’s Western SocietyCraig E. MorrisonPeshitta Parables as Oral PerformanceTerry C. FallaSeverus of Antioch on Ancient Church Customs: The Significance of Cyprian’s Letters as Quoted by Severus and Oriental Canonical CollectionsAlberto CamplaniTheodicy in the Letter of Mara Bar Serapion: Connections with Philosophical (Stoic) Accounts of Divine RetributionIlaria L.E. RamelliA Monk and a Fish by the River of Babylon: An Unpublished Edifying TaleSergey MinovNotes on Syriac Learning in South India in the Middle Ages and Early ModernityIstván Perczel with a contribution by Radu MustațăPart 3: Going Where We Have Not BeenBringing the Syriac Climacus to the Twenty-First CenturyJeff W. ChildersTowards a Syriac Semantic Web from the Perspective of 2020George A. KirazDialogue Elements in Late Syriac Poetry: The Ways of TransformationAnton PritulaSyriac Apocalypticism and the Rise of IslamStephen J. ShoemakerChristianity in Iraq and the Issue of Chaldean IdentityHerman G.B. TeuleWho Says? A Social History of Syriac Use in the Medieval Islamic PeriodThomas A. CarlsonSergius Baḥīrā and a Syriac “Story of Muḥammad”Muriel DebiéIndex of PlacesIndex of Authors and TextsIndex of Bible PassagesGeneral Index