Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
5 primary works
Book 17
The Syriac Orthodox Patriarchal Register of Dues of 1870
by Iskandar Bcheiry
Published 26 October 2009
This monograph presents an unpublished historical resource in the form of a register of dues collected for the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate during the second half of the nineteenth century. Bcheiry provides the original text, an English translation, and an extensive socio-economic study.
Book 21
A List of Syriac Orthodox Ecclesiastic Ordinations from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century
by Iskandar Bcheiry
Published 23 March 2010
The Bodleian Library in Oxford currently holds an unpublished historical document in Syriac containing precious historical information about the ordination of bishops, priests, monks, and deacons. Bcheiry gives the text and translation, and focuses on the importance of the data found in this historical list which he compares with other historical data found in other sources.
Book 24
In the Ottoman Empire, Syriac communities kept their own baptismal books, marriage, funeral and other records and many of these can be found in various libraries, churches, monasteries in the West and East. The Syriac Garsuni manuscript found in the Church of the Forty Martyrs in Mardin contains several lists of different subjects that go back to the late period of the Ottoman Empire. These lists, published here for the first time with annotations, are an important historical source for the social, economic, cultural and religious history of the Near East during the 19th century.
Book 34
The Account of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Yuhanun Bar Say Allah (1483-1492)
by Iskandar Bcheiry
Published 8 January 2013
This volume provides an analysis of a late fifteenth century document, a hitherto unpublished narration of the life and accomplishments of Yuhanun Bar Say Allah, a fifteenth-century Syriac Orthodox Patriarch. It includes considerable unique historical information, shedding light on the history of the Syriac community in relation to other communities. It also supplies descriptions of events that brought important changes to the Syriac Church in Mesopotamia, Syria and Egypt.
Book 57
The year 652 marked a fundamental political change in the Middle East and the surrounding region. An important and contemporary source of the state of the Christian Church at this time is to be found in the correspondence of the patriarch of the Church of the East, Isu'yahb III (649-659), which he wrote between 628 and 658. This books discusses Isu'yahb's view of and attitudes toward the Muslim Arabs.