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"And the Records are Ancient" Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 500
ISBN: 9781463248130
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2025
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts
Description:
The book of Chronicles has received a revival in recent scholarship, making it one of the most studied books, and this is especially true from 1 Chronicles 10 onwards—ignoring the genealogies of 1 Chronicles 1-9. Yet, when the Chronicler incorporated these lists into his book, he designed them with a deliberate and sophisticated literary design according to his purposes. In “And the Records are Ancient,” Klein exposes these designs in all their glory and shows the great richness inherent in seemingly boring texts.
Ten Measures of Beauty Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9781463248000
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2025
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
The contributions that comprise Ten Measures of Beauty, the 10th volume published by the Society of Biblical Literature’s Midrash Section, pertain to Sifra, Midrash Tadshe and Masora, Rabbi Meyuḥas ben Elijah (a biblical commentator), food and meals in midrash, and peace studies.
3-4 Maccabees According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781463205881
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2025
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Surath Kthob
Description:
This volume is part of a series of English translations of the Syriac Peshitta along with the Syriac text carried out by an international team of scholars. Forness has translated the text, while Kiraz has prepared the Syriac text in the west Syriac script, fully vocalized and pointed. The translation and the Syriac text are presented on facing pages so that both can be studied together.
From Recollection to Recommitment Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 283
ISBN: 9781463247041
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2025
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Bulletin for Biblical Research Dissertation Series
Description:
This study addresses two underdeveloped areas in Old Testament scholarship: the use of Judges in Psalms and the use of rhetorical criticism in the analysis of inner-biblical allusion.
Studies in the Evolution and Formation of the Passover Haggadah Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 354
ISBN: 9781463243760
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2025
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
The Passover Haggadah, the quintessential Jewish book, began taking shape in the period of the Mishnah and the Talmud (ca. 100-600 CE). Even by 600, it did not look like it does today.
The Outrider Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781463246211
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2025
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
A biography of Abū al-Faḍl al-ʿAbbās, the half brother, diplomat, and negotiator of al-Ḥusayn. The author was named Distinguished Scholar of Shia Studies in the Islamic Republic of Iran's 28th World Book Awards in 2020. He is at present a resident faculty member of PISAI, lecturing in Shīʿī Islamic studies, Qurʾān and Islamic Ethics, and a visiting lecturer at the Pontifical Beda College in Rome.
Orthodox Choreographies Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9781463246259
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
The book offers a comprehensive anthropological study of lived Christianity in Jerusalem’s Old City, with a special focus on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre or the Church of the Anastasis. Based on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, the study explores the experiences of the Rum Orthodox community, examining their internal dynamics and relationships with other Christian groups. Within the Church of the Anastasis, complex interplays emerge, as fragile legal agreements intermingle with ethnic and theological considerations, resulting in a complex reality of shared spaces and coexistence.
Islam in China and the Islamic world Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 257
ISBN: 9781463245870
Pub Date: 31 May 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
Over the past half century, China has accomplished a great deal in the study of Islam, and established a certain academic system for its study. This book offers a history of contemporary Islamic research in China, analyzing the interdisciplinary research emerging from this system, from its background to the people involved, mechanisms, and their publications, scientific conferences, reference works and historical materials, and the branches of research: history, religion, philosophy, politics, and culture.
Šalmūtā Šapīrtā Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 431
ISBN: 9781463245412
Pub Date: 31 May 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
Description:
A Festschrift for Rifaat Ebied celebrating a lifetime of work in the field of Semitic Studies, in particular Syriac, Christian Arabic, and Mandaic.
All-Night Vigil Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 350
ISBN: 9780884654896
Pub Date: 19 Apr 2024
Imprint: Holy Trinity Seminary Press
Description:
This pocket-size hieratikon contains all the texts necessary for a deacon or priest in serving the daily hours of the Orthodox Church - Vespers, Compline, Midnight Office, Matins and the hours. Church Slavonic and English texts are provided in parallel, on facing pages. Also included are instructions and additional prayers for the All-Night Vigil and the services of Great Lent, the festal and Sunday prokeimena, and festal megolynaria.
Evolutions and Religious Traditions in the Long Nineteenth Century Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 456
ISBN: 9780822947929
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Description:
Before the advent of radio, conceptions of the relationship between science and religion circulated through periodicals, journals, and books, influencing the worldviews of intellectuals and a wider public. In this volume, historians of science and religion examine that relationship through diverse mediums, geographic contexts, and religious traditions. Spanning within and beyond Europe and North America, chapters emphasize underexamined regions—New Zealand, Australia, India, Argentina, Sri Lanka, Egypt, and the Ottoman Empire—and major religions of the world, including Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Islam; interactions between those traditions; as well as atheism, monism, and agnosticism.
What Is Theology Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9781942699514
Pub Date: 16 Jan 2024
Imprint: Holy Trinity Seminary Press
Description:
Orthodox theology is intimately linked to spiritual experience:it has a very different meaning to the present usage of this word coming from academia. The scientific methods developed in the West since the seventeenth century can of of benefit in many regards, but without strong roots in the Orthodox tradition theology risks being "eaten up" by the human sciences.These roots are in the mystical tradition of the Church as passed down from the the beginning and expressed in the lives of saints, iconography etc.
The Threshold Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780884654933
Pub Date: 08 Nov 2023
Imprint: Holy Trinity Seminary Press
Series: Collected Works of St Ignatius (Brianchaninov)
Description:
Death is a great sacrament. It is the birth of a person from this earthly, temporary life, into eternity.In this third volume of St Ignatius’s collected works, published here in English for the first time, the saint examines the mystical boundaries that govern the life of a Christian: the one, between life and death; and the other, between the visible, physical realm and the invisible to most, but no less real, spiritual realm.
Loss in Translation Cover Loss in Translation Cover
Format: 
Pages: 170
ISBN: 9789464262070
Pub Date: 26 Sep 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 9fc
Pages: 170
ISBN: 9789464262063
Pub Date: 26 Sep 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 9fc
Description:
Religious heritage has long been within the scope of academia, but very little research has been conducted on the heritagization of Catholic monasteries. This is remarkable considering the longstanding historical presence and social impact of these institutes that, in recent times, have also become well-visited spiritual centers and much-cherished heritage objects. This book addresses this lacuna.
Sacred Space in Syriac Orthodox Liturgy Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 396
ISBN: 9781463245559
Pub Date: 21 Jul 2023
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
Description:
A study of how the Sedrō of Entrance has been practiced in earlier periods and architectural contexts and to investigate what role the entrance rite may have had in constructing the sanctuary as sacred space and the worshipping community as church.
Identity and Witness Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 188
ISBN: 9781463245702
Pub Date: 05 Jul 2023
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Pro Oriente Studies in the Syriac Tradition
Description:
Identity has become a central theme in a globalised world, both in politics and in the humanities, and the Syrian churches cannot escape it either. Christianity also exists as an identity that can in some ways compete with or even contradict theological understandings as a witness. But how should religious leaders deal with the fact that their churches are as much faith communities as identity markers?