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New Book on Christianity in the East
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I think that the release of the new book linked above is very timely and a real eye opener to the West considering what is currently happening in Iraq. Check out the sneak preview on pages 5 and 6 where it talks about Timothy, the patriarch of the Church of the East. I can't wait for its release.
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Mshikhaya Wrote:http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/07459536...eader-link

I think that the release of the new book linked above is very timely and a real eye opener to the West considering what is currently happening in Iraq. Check out the sneak preview on pages 5 and 6 where it talks about Timothy, the patriarch of the Church of the East. I can't wait for its release.

Shlama akhi,

Looks very interesting. I'll have to get a copy and it look like it is released.
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Shlama
Ya'aqub Younan-Levine
Aramaica.org
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yaaqubyl Wrote:
Mshikhaya Wrote:http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/07459536...eader-link

I think that the release of the new book linked above is very timely and a real eye opener to the West considering what is currently happening in Iraq. Check out the sneak preview on pages 5 and 6 where it talks about Timothy, the patriarch of the Church of the East. I can't wait for its release.

Shlama akhi,

Looks very interesting. I'll have to get a copy and it look like it is released.
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Shlama

Wow! Thanks for looking into it a little further, yaaqubyl. I don't know why I thought it wasn't released yet. I think that I was too tired as it was very late when I posted.
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Mshikhaya Wrote:http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/07459536...eader-link

I think that the release of the new book linked above is very timely and a real eye opener to the West considering what is currently happening in Iraq. Check out the sneak preview on pages 5 and 6 where it talks about Timothy, the patriarch of the Church of the East. I can't wait for its release.

Great link, Mshikhaya...I am picking up a copy right now.

I love the following quotes from page 4, as it pretty much sums up the root of all our problems as Aramaic primacists:

Quote:How can we possibly have forgotten such a vast story? ..... In terms of the story of Christianity, which we usually associate so centrally with the making of "The West", much of what we think we know is inaccurate....How can our mental maps of the past be so radically distorted?

The story of Timothy, arguably the most influential Patriarch in the history of the CoE, is great.
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Shlama,

Regarding the Peshitta, page 87 says,

"In the Old Testament, this represents a direct translation from ancient Hebrew texts, probably done in Edessa or Arbela. The Peshitta remained the standard version for the Eastern churches, just as the Latin Vulgate did for the Western church."

On pages 88,89...

"Although they did not include them in the canon of scripture, all the Eastern churches knew many ancient Christian texts, including apocryphal Gospels and apocalypses, and many scholars quote from now-lost patristic texts and commentaries. One major influence for Syriac writers was the Diatessaron, which was widely used in Eastern churches before many bishops decided to abandon it on the grounds of Tatian's heretical leanings.

"Nevertheless, Syriac scholars continued to know and cite the work at least through the thirteenth century, giving them access to what might have been authentically ancient New Testament readings that were lost in later texts. Through the Diatessaron, for instance, scholars like Isho'dad and Bar Salibi knew the ancient story that at the moment of Christ's baptism, 'a great light shone' over the Jordan.

"Even at the end of the thirteenth century, 'Abdisho' bar Berikha not only knows the Diatessaron, but lists its as part of the canonical New Testament."

This last sentence reminds me of the quote from The Nestorian Church: A Concise History of Nestorian Christianity in Asia from the Persian Schism to the Modern Assyrians (in this thread):

"Ebedyeshu, metropolitan of Nisibis, gives: the Four Gospels, Acts, the Epistle of James, i Peter, i John, fourteen Epistles of Paul (inclusive of Hebrews). He also adds the Diatessaron of Tatian...reauthorization of the Diatessaron"

Shlama,
Ya'aqub Younan-Levine
Aramaica.org
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What is particularly noteworthy is that it is Philip Jenkins, <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Jenkins">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Jenkins</a><!-- m --> , who has written the book.
This should mean it will get decent exposure I would imagine. I have seen at least two of his recent books on the shelves of local bookstores here over the past few years.
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