General Index
animals
142, 160–161, 228–229.
beast, also donkey, also fish
Antichrist
328, 332, 335, 369n31
apocalypse/apocalypticism
325–335, 367, 369–370, 399
Arabic (language, texts, translation)
106, 160n13, 239, 246, 268, 283, 293, 295, 299, 312, 316, 318, 348–349, 351n15, 352–359, 365–368, 371–372, 374–375, 377, 383, 397n117, 397n123
Aramaic
167, 169, 194–195, 205, 254–255, 282–283, 312, 316–317, 352, 354, 357–358, 366
Chaldean
343–344
Christian Palestinian
269
Neo-Aramaic
301, 312, 349, 358
Armenian (language, literature)
112, 268, 300, 353–354
arts/artistic/artistry
9, 154–155, 158–159, 168–170
ascetic literature/ascetism
45, 52–54, 58–59, 67–68, 70–77, 80–83, 87–90, 94–96, 103–106, 150, 224, 232, 267, 270–272, 276, 366
Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM)
339–341, 343–344
astral immortality
201
audience
20, 23, 33–34, 51, 58, 67–68, 69n4, 70–75, 77–79, 81, 96, 139–141, 143–144, 149–152, 155, 159–160, 163, 165, 228–231, 253–254, 359
Baʿth Party
342
beast
72, 74, 143, 161, 369–370
Bet Nahrayn Democratic Party
339
bilingual
168, 237, 317–318, 355
blindness
143–145, 147, 152, 167, 208, 214, 306
canon law/Christian canons
44, 173–190
Chaldean
church
249, 255, 319, 339–346
clergy
235n1, 237, 240, 319, 378, 381
List (Iʾtilāf al-Kildān)
341, 345
National Council
342
Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian Popular Council
339
Church of the East
244, 246, 248–250, 255–256, 284, 288, 319, 346, 351, 355–356, 358, 367, 371–373, 376–377.
East Syriac
compassion
56, 112, 113n15, 160, 166
conceptio per aurem
9–10, 12–13, 25, 27, 31–33, 37–38
corruption
78, 135–136, 138–146, 148–152, 388–389
Council of Chalcedon (451)
67, 70, 82, 175–176, 184, 189
Council of Constantinople (553)
88
Council of Ephesus (431)
175, 185
Council of Nicaea (325)
175, 179, 182–183, 185
Council of Trullo (692)
180
cross
103, 204, 239–240, 326, 331–332, 371, 378
death
13–15, 25–26, 34–36, 38, 60, 70, 72, 74–76, 80, 124n67, 141, 193, 197–205, 207, 229, 232, 271, 315, 355, 369, 376, 379, 384–388
dialogue
28–29, 38, 45, 48–50, 162, 201–202, 254–255, 311–318, 321, 346n15, 364–365
digital humanities
268, 272, 277, 279–308
discourse analysis
154, 159, 163
donkey
161–162, 375
door of heaven
112
dyophysite
271, 372
East Syriac
41n5, 44n21, 59–60, 87–90, 96, 105–106, 241n24, 247n42, 252n57, 284, 313, 320, 340, 346, 364–365, 371–372, 376–379, 398–399
Eleazar, biblical character
36
emotions and passions (πάθη )
205–206, 215–216
eschatology
325–329, 331–333, 335, 369, 384
Eve, biblical character
10, 12–15, 23–25, 27, 33, 35, 38, 54–55, 58–59
evil of banality
160
fish
114n19, 117, 143, 224, 227–232
Fitna
First Civil War
335
Second Civil War
333, 335
Garshuni
290, 300
Malayalam
251n53, 254, 258nf
gates of heaven
112–113
geo-ecclesiology
174
Gog and Magog
330, 335
Good Samaritan. see Samaritan
Greek (language, tradition)
1, 10, 49n42, 58, 68n1, 69n7, 87–89, 92n29, 105–106, 110, 116n24, 135, 150, 154–166, 168, 170, 173–174, 179–181, 183, 193–196, 205, 224, 229–230, 232, 239, 250n51, 251n55, 267–276, 295, 300, 328n7, 331, 349, 352–353, 356, 368n25, 383, 386, 392
Hagar, biblical character
334–335, 366
hagiography
41, 46, 52–54, 76, 88, 223, 225, 229, 328n7, 368n29, 370, 387
Hannah, biblical character
59n86, 111, 117–118, 120, 122–123, 127
harmony of the self
94–97
Hebrew (language, tradition)
91, 121n59, 123n65, 168, 230, 239, 251, 254–255, 366, 374
Bible
113, 167–168
historiography
174, 313, 355
humor
229
hymnography
43, 55n72
imageless prayer
87–88, 94–97, 98, 105
immortality of the soul
199, 203
incarnation
12–13, 25–26, 111
inner prayer
89, 94–97, 103–106, 117
Ishmaelites/sons of Ishmael
327, 335, 369–371, 382–383, 389
Islam/Islamic tradition/world
105–106, 312–313, 316, 318–320, 325–326, 328–329, 332–333, 339, 345, 348, 352, 357–350, 363–367, 369–372, 374, 381, 384, 386, 388n78, 391–392, 394, 398–399
Islamic Studies/Islamicists
348, 359, 355, 359–360, 392
Jesus, biblical character
9, 27–38, 50–51, 70, 104, 117, 141n15, 146, 151, 162, 164–166, 169, 183–184, 193, 201–205, 208, 216–217, 243, 245, 318, 376, 381, 386–387
Jews/Judaism/Jewish traditions
76, 110, 112, 114–119, 121–123, 137n12, 167–168, 193, 199–205, 210, 216–217, 239, 242–243, 246, 254, 325–327, 369, 374–376, 385, 388n78, 390–391, 393–394.
rabbinic
Jizya. see Taxes/Poll tax (jizya)
Jonah, biblical character
114n19, 227, 230–231
Joseph, biblical character
36, 53, 147
Joshua, biblical character
36–37, 112, 114n19
Judeo-Persian language. see Persian
Kaldanayuta (Chaldean identity/language)
344
law of Zeus
209–210
lawyer
162–166
Lazarus, biblical character
154, 156–157
Levite
160
lex talionis
200, 390
limpidity
93, 99–103
liturgy
42–47, 49n42, 51, 54–57, 60, 101, 115, 154, 168–169, 204, 237–239, 248, 256, 311n3, 314, 350
Madrasha/e
42–45, 52
Manigramam
239
martyrs, martyrdom
41, 44, 52n59, 59–60, 67–83, 175, 179–180, 182, 184, 187, 189, 193, 197, 242, 251, 253, 257, 328
Martyrs of Sebaste
73–74, 76, 79
Mary/Maryam, biblical character
9, 10n4, 12–15, 23–25, 27, 31–33, 35, 37–38, 46–49, 55–57, 59–60, 317, 372, 375, 390
medicine
120, 207, 348, 352–354
Melkite literature/tradition
270–272, 276, 368–369
Memra/e
42, 50–51, 53, 59, 135, 319
miaphysite
271
Mongol period
319, 348
Moses, biblical character
28, 36, 89, 92, 100, 112, 116, 369
mouth, function in prayer
31, 35, 45, 48, 55, 117, 118n36, 121–122, 123n67, 125–128, 145–146
multilingualism
349–350
new law
200–203, 210
oral performance
154–155, 163, 168, 170
Pahlavi
239–240
palimpsest
167, 269–270, 273
patronage
356–357
Persian
/Iranian/Sasanian Empire
238, 326–327, 328, 331, 333, 335
language, literature
160n13, 238–240, 244, 246, 287, 312–313, 316–320, 348, 351, 353, 357–358
Early Modern Persian language
239
Judeo-Persian language
239, 311n3
Middle Persian language
238–239, 312, 384
piety
71, 79, 103, 160
praying mind
96, 98, 100–101
Promised Land
91–94.
Index of Places: Palestine
rabbinic
110–116, 118–128, 167–168
rebaptism
173, 179, 182, 184–185, 188–189
redemption
12, 23, 25–26, 35, 53–54, 120, 125
resurrection
44, 74, 92–94, 124–125, 199, 201, 203, 376, 387
Rich Man, biblical character
154, 156–157
ritual
46, 49–51, 55, 113–114, 116, 170, 175, 384
Rogation of the Ninevites
314
Roman Empire
199–200, 326–327, 330–333–335
Saint Thomas Christians, Suṟiyāni
Nasrāṇikal
237
Śaiva bhakti
240
salvation
12n11, 27, 33, 35, 38, 56, 59, 71–72, 76, 78, 80, 82, 114
Samaritan
34–35
Good Samaritan, biblical character
154–157, 159–162, 165n26, 168
Samaritan woman, biblical character
12, 27–38, 59
Satan
13, 25–26, 38, 56, 114, 147
scent from Egypt
91–92
self-duplicity
142
self-understanding
136, 144, 151–152
Selihot
114–115
senses, sense perception
12–14, 17n31, 18–27, 31, 33n91, 38, 73, 118, 143, 144n16, 229
Shema
118–120
Sheol
34–35, 140
silence
21–23, 86, 88, 111, 116–121, 125, 127, 149, 163, 170
Sociolinguistics
349–350
sōghīthā/soghitha/sōghyāthā
48–50, 55–56, 311–317
spirituality
86–88, 99n56, 101–102, 105, 154, 168–169
stages of monastic life
93–95, 100–106
somatic stage (pagrānūtā)
93–94
stage of the soul (nafshānūtā)
93–94, 100
stage of the spirit (ruḥānūtā)
93–94
stillness
21–22, 88, 98, 119, 231
Synod of Diamper (1599)
249, 253
Syriac Renaissance
316, 319, 348–349, 358–359
Tarisāppaḷḷi (copper plates)
238–239, 244–245
Taxes/Poll tax (jizya)
333–334
text editing
272, 276
titulus crucis
204
virtuous (life, people)
74, 78, 92, 142, 197, 209, 215
voice
20–21, 23, 25, 33–35, 42–51, 53–57, 60, 86, 111, 116–118, 120–123, 125, 127, 135–136, 151, 170, 290, 315, 341
wine
125, 160 –161
women’s choirs
43–47, 50–53, 57
worship
42, 46, 49, 55–57, 103–105, 116, 120, 238, 246, 259, 371, 382–384
Zoroastrianism/Zoroastrians
239, 325–328, 383–384