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The Early Spread of Christianity in Central Asia and the Far East

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The main goal of this study is to present data from Syriac and Christian Arabic writers, and some other sources, dealing with missionary activity and the expansion of Christianity into east Asia.
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
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SKU (ISBN): 978-1-61719-589-1
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Publication Status: In Print
Publication Date: Jun 4,2010
Interior Color: Black
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Page Count: 81
Languages: English
ISBN: 978-1-61719-589-1
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The main goal of this study is to present data from Syriac and Christian Arabic writers, and some other sources, dealing with missionary activity and the expansion of Christianity into east Asia. Mingana gives a great variety of texts in English translation explained and compared with one another. Of course, the famous Chinese-Syriac monument of Singan-Fu is discussed, but he also considers the evidence of gravestones, liturgical manuscripts, and Manichean texts, and a relevant letter of Philoxenus is also edited and translated. This important study collecting so much evidence will be a significant resource for those interested in the distant move of Christianity eastward.

The main goal of this study is to present data from Syriac and Christian Arabic writers, and some other sources, dealing with missionary activity and the expansion of Christianity into east Asia. Mingana gives a great variety of texts in English translation explained and compared with one another. Of course, the famous Chinese-Syriac monument of Singan-Fu is discussed, but he also considers the evidence of gravestones, liturgical manuscripts, and Manichean texts, and a relevant letter of Philoxenus is also edited and translated. This important study collecting so much evidence will be a significant resource for those interested in the distant move of Christianity eastward.

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