Introduction
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Aphrahaṭ and Ephrem: From Context to Reception
1. Making Ephrem One of Us | Joseph Amar, University of Notre Dame
2.The Significance of Astronomical and Calendrical Theories for Ephrem’s Interpretation of the Three Days of Jesus’ Death | Blake Hartung, Arizona State University
3. Reconsidering the Compositional Unity of Aphrahaṭ’s Demonstrations | J. Edward Walters, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
4. From Sketches to Portraits: The Canaanite Woman within Late Antique Syriac Poetry | Erin Galgay Walsh, University of Chicago Divinity School
Translation
5. The Syriac Reception of Plato’s Republic | Yury Arzhanov, Ruhr University, Bochum
6. Did the Dying Jacob Gather His Feet into His Bed (MT) or Stretch Them Out (Peshiṭta)?: Describing the Unique Character of the Peshiṭta | Craig Morrison, Pontifical Biblical Institute
Hagiography: Formation and Transmission
7. The Invention of the Persian Martyr Acts | Adam Becker, New York University
8. The Sources of the History of ʿAbdā damšiḥā: The Creation of a Persian Martyr Act | Simcha Gross, University of Pennsylvania
9. Stories, Saints, and Sanctity between Christianityand Islam: The Conversion of Najrān to Christianity in the Sīra of Muhammad | Reyhan Durmaz, University of Pennsylvania
Christians in the Islamic World
10. Syriac in the Polyglot Medieval Middle East: Digital Tools and the Dissemination of Scholarship Across Linguistic Boundaries | Thomas A. Carlson, Oklahoma State University
11.Christian Arabic Historiography at the Crossroads between the Byzantine, the Syriac, and the Islamic Traditions | Maria Conterno, Ghent University
12. Seeing to be Seen: Mirrors and Angels in John of Dalyatha | Zachary Ugolnik, Stanford University
13. On Sources for the Social and Cultural History of Christians during the Syriac Renaissance | Dorothea Weltecke, Goethe Universität
Epilogue
14. Syriac Studies in the Contemporary Academy: Some Reflections | Kristian Heal, Brigham Young University
Bibliography
Index