THE MANUSCRIPT HERITAGE OF ISAAC OF NINEVEH: A SURVEY OF SYRIAC MANUSCRIPTS

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1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF BETH QATRAYE 23
6. CHRISTIANITY IN ARABIA: AN OVERVIEW (4TH–9TH CENTURIES CE) 37
7. THE QURANIC WORD ḤANĪF AND ITS EXPLANATION IN THE LIGHT OF THE SYRIAC ROOT 61
8. THE MANUSCRIPT HERITAGE OF ISAAC OF NINEVEH: A SURVEY OF SYRIAC MANUSCRIPTS 71
9. REMEMBRANCE OF GOD AND ITS RELATION TO SCRIPTURE IN ISAAC III INCLUDING INSIGHTS FROM ISLAMIC AND JEWISH TRADITIONS 93
10. TWO DISCOURSES OF THE “FIFTH PART” OF ISAAC THE SYRIAN’S WRITINGS: PROLEGOMENA FOR APOKATASTASIS? 123
11. SYRIAC BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION FROM QATAR: AHOB OF QATAR 133
12. GABRIEL OF BETH QATRAYE AS A WITNESS TO SYRIAC INTELLECTUAL LIFE C. 600 CE 155
13. THE FUTURE OF THE PAST: THE RECEPTION OF SYRIAC QAṬRAYE AUTHORS IN LATE MEDIEVAL IRAQ 169
14. DADISHOʿ QAṬRAYA’S COMPENDIOUS COMMENTARY ON THE PARADISE OF THE EGYPTIAN FATHERS IN GARSHUNI – A CASE OF MANUSCRIPT MISTAKEN IDENTITY 195
15. LOST AND FOUND: DADISHOʿ QATRAYA’S COMMENTARY ON THE PARADISE OF THE FATHERS AS A WITNESS TO THE WORKS OF THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA 207
16. THE BOOK OF MONKS: ETHIOPIAN MONASTICISM VIA BETH QATRAYE 231
17. THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE ARAB TRIBES IN THE GULF AREA DURING THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH CENTURIES A.D. 249
18. BIBLIOGRAPHY 269
19. INDEX 281