| Rank |
Name |
ISBN |
Category |
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| Rubin, Aaron. A Brief Introduction to the Semitic Languages
This is a typological overview of the Semitic languages, ancient and modern, including phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon, and a guide to further study. All of the many examples include morphemic glosses, making them clear and accessible to a wide readership. |
| 978-1-61719-860-1 | Linguistics, Ancient Near East, Gorgias Handbooks (1935-6838) |
| | 2. |
| Etheridge, J. Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch
This book provides readers with English translations of two valuable Aramaic paraphrases of the Hebrew Scriptures. Volume I contains the author’s introduction and collated translations of the targums on Genesis and Exodus. Volume II contains collated translations of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. |
| 1-59333-183-5 | Biblical Studies, Hebrew & Judaica |
| | 3. |
| Budge, E. The Chronography of Bar Hebraeus
This is the standard edition of the chronicle of Bar Hebraeus in Syriac and English translation. It gives the political history of the world from the creation to the year AD 1286. |
| 1-59333-256-4 | Eastern Christianity, Syriac, Gorgias Historical Texts (1935-6919), Patristics |
| | 4. |
| Al-Shati, Bint. The Wives of the Prophet Muhammad
This is an account of the family life of the Prophet Muhammad, concerning the noble ladies who lived in his house. The author tries to visualize the life of each of the women, their relationships with the Prophet, and their roles as wives and women. The work is based on authentic Islamic sources such as Tabari, Waqidi, Ibn Ishaq, and Ibn Hisham. The author concentrates on the life of Muhammad among his wives, and on his treatment and discipline of them. This text gives an insight into the life of women at the beginning of the Islamic Era. |
| 1-59333-398-6 | Arabic & Islamic Studies, Women's Studies |
| | 5. |
| Dalley, Stephanie. Mari and Karana: Two Old Babylonian Cities
A study on all the social and historical aspects of Mari and Karana, this book provides an account of life in the nineteenth century BCE. Illustrations with photographs and drawings of objects uncovered during excavations provide a lively counterpart to the texts themselves, many of which are quoted in translation.
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| 1-931956-02-2 | Ancient Near East, Ancient Heritage of Iraq |
| | 6. |
| Ferencz, Nicholas. American Orthodoxy and Parish Congregationalism
Orthodox ecclesiology doctrinally and historically requires that all authority in the church be expressed by the bishop. The unity of authority, based upon the laying on of hands, is the lived expression of the oneness and catholicity of the church. American Orthodoxy, however, does not have such an authority structure, especially on the parish level. This study explores the divergence of practice from doctrine in the American church. The study concludes with a theological discussion of the problematic nature of parish congregationalism in Orthodoxy. It points toward the already-realized conciliarity of supra-parish structures as the paradigm for a reformation of parish authority structures. |
| 1-59333-195-9 | Eastern Christianity, Gorgias Dissertations in Religion (1935-6870), American Christianity |
| | 7. |
| Hitti, Philip. The Syrians in America
This is the first academic study to discuss the immigration of Arabs to the U.S. Hitti describes the social and educational conditions of the immigrants and the religious problems and issues that arose as a result. An appendix is given listing the various religious communities in the U.S. |
| 1-59333-176-2 | Arabic & Islamic Studies |
| | 8. |
| Pagoulatos, Gerasimos. Tracing the Bridegroom in Dura
Pagoulatos explores the unknown sources of the eleventh-century Byzantine service of Christ the Bridegroom in the Dura-Europos Christian baptistry ritual (earliest known Iconophile service) dating the liturgical use of Christian images to the third century, not the seventh-century, A.D. |
| 978-1-59333-738-4 | Religion, Eastern Christianity, Ancient Near East, Byzantium, Tigris Imprint, Church History |
| | 9. | | 1-59333-096-0 | Syriac, Biblical Studies, Texts and Studies (1935-6927) |
| | 10. |
| Zammit, Martin. `Enbe men Karmo Suryoyo (Bunches of Grapes from the Syriac Vineyard): A Syriac Chrestomathy
`Enbe men Karmo Suryoyo is a chrestomathy intended primarily for students who have covered the essentials of Syriac morphology and syntax, but it should also interest anyone who enjoys Syriac literature in general. The twenty-six selections consist of examples of Syriac prose and poetry from the second until the thirteenth centuries AD. The readings reflect a wide and varied range of subject matter. Inevitably, selections of a religious nature predominate, but historical, ethnographic, chemical, astronomical, and linguistic excerpts produced by famous Syriac authors, as well as less familiar ones, have been included. A Syriac-English glossary and an index of grammatical points are included. |
| 1-59333-346-3 | Syriac, Literature, Gorgias Handbooks (1935-6838) |
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