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From Moscow to Baghdad
Studies on Middle Eastern Christianity in Memory of Nikolai Seleznyov
Series: - Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, Volume: 42
From Moscow to Baghdad is a collection of studies on the history and culture of Middle Eastern Christian communities, Semitic linguistics, and related topics, dedicated to the memory of Prof. Dr. Nikolai Seleznyov (1971â2021), Leading Research Fellow at the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow and a prominent scholar of Syriac and Christian Arabic literature. In this volume Nikolaiâs friends and colleagues present their finest research, including editions and translations of previously unpublished texts. The subjects range from Second-Temple Jewish pseudepigrapha to late antique hagiography, Syriac and Arabic Christianity, Christian-Muslim relations, and Neo-Aramaic dialects.
Sergey Loesov is Professor at HSEâs Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies and coordinates the Moscow Circle for Aramaic Studies. His research covers Aramaic, Akkadian, and corpus linguistics. Publications include work on Amorite-Akkadian verb morphology and Old Assyrian ventive (2024â25).
Sergey Minov (Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013) is a research fellow at the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies of HSE University (Moscow). His research encompasses traditions of exegetical and parabiblical literature, hagiography, and interreligious polemic among Syriac Christians.
Alexander Treiger (Ph.D., Yale University, 2008), is Professor of Religious Studies at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is editor of the series âArabic Christianity: Texts and Studiesâ (Brill). He has published on Graeco-Arabic translations, Arabic Christianity, and Islamic philosophy.
Sergey Minov (Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013) is a research fellow at the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies of HSE University (Moscow). His research encompasses traditions of exegetical and parabiblical literature, hagiography, and interreligious polemic among Syriac Christians.
Alexander Treiger (Ph.D., Yale University, 2008), is Professor of Religious Studies at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is editor of the series âArabic Christianity: Texts and Studiesâ (Brill). He has published on Graeco-Arabic translations, Arabic Christianity, and Islamic philosophy.
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Figures, Diagrams, and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Select Bibliography of Nikolai Seleznyov
1 Enochâs Measuring, Counting, Weighing, and Balancing Creation in 2â¯Enoch
âAndrei A. Orlov
2 Saints Cosmas and Damian between Rome and Egypt: A Reappraisal of Their Hagiographical Dossier from Pheremma to Santa Maria Antiqua
âBasil Lourié and Maria Lidova
3 Cataclysm in Tenth-Century Aksum? Wrestling with an Obscure Passage in the History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria
âMyriam Wissa
4 Additional Witnesses to the Syriac Sayings of Greek Philosophers
âYury Arzhanov
5 Two New Christian Gravestones from Ilibalyk
âMark Dickens
6 The Legend of the Egyptian King Arsanis: An Edition and Study of the Syriac Tour of Hell
âYulia Furman
7 Aphrahaá¹ in Vienna (P.Vindob. Syr. 7 + Syr. 8)
âGrigory Kessel
8 Ê¿Ammoy, MÄmrÄ on the Resurrection of Bodies: An Unpublished Syriac Verse Homily
âSergey Minov
9 Problems of Text Attribution in Manuscript Autographs: The Case of Ê¿Aá¸dÄ«Å¡ÅÊ¿ of GÄzartÄ
âAnton Pritula
10 Arabic Influences on the Syriac Charm Tradition
âAnna Cherkashina, Alexey Lyavdansky and Duaa Rashid
11 Strategies of Hidden Polemics and Dialogue in Medieval Christian-Arabic Literature
âSofia Melikyan
12 Fragments of an Unknown Maġribī Arabic Christian Text: Edition and Translation
âDmitry A. Morozov
13 Monotheism and Convivencia: A KarÅ¡Å«nÄ« Text about Islam and the QurʾÄn
âBarbara Roggema
14 Lost in Greek, Found in Arabic: A Source-Critical Analysis of the Patristic Treatise al-Firdaws al-ʿaqlī (The Noetic Paradise)
âAlexander Treiger
15 DÄmeḵ, dmeḵ, and dammīḵ in Syriac
âNikolay Grishin
16 Adnominal Possession in Turoyo: New Evidence from the Kfarze Dialect
âKsenia Kashintseva
17 Maaloulians as Guest Workers in Mandatory Palestine
âAnna Bromirskaya, Philipp Burlakov, Anna Cherkashina, Charles G. Häberl and Sergey Loesov
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Figures, Diagrams, and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Select Bibliography of Nikolai Seleznyov
Part 1 From Second-Temple Judaism to Oriental Christianity
1 Enochâs Measuring, Counting, Weighing, and Balancing Creation in 2â¯Enoch
âAndrei A. Orlov
2 Saints Cosmas and Damian between Rome and Egypt: A Reappraisal of Their Hagiographical Dossier from Pheremma to Santa Maria Antiqua
âBasil Lourié and Maria Lidova
3 Cataclysm in Tenth-Century Aksum? Wrestling with an Obscure Passage in the History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria
âMyriam Wissa
Part 2 Syriac Studies
4 Additional Witnesses to the Syriac Sayings of Greek Philosophers
âYury Arzhanov
5 Two New Christian Gravestones from Ilibalyk
âMark Dickens
6 The Legend of the Egyptian King Arsanis: An Edition and Study of the Syriac Tour of Hell
âYulia Furman
7 Aphrahaá¹ in Vienna (P.Vindob. Syr. 7 + Syr. 8)
âGrigory Kessel
8 Ê¿Ammoy, MÄmrÄ on the Resurrection of Bodies: An Unpublished Syriac Verse Homily
âSergey Minov
9 Problems of Text Attribution in Manuscript Autographs: The Case of Ê¿Aá¸dÄ«Å¡ÅÊ¿ of GÄzartÄ
âAnton Pritula
10 Arabic Influences on the Syriac Charm Tradition
âAnna Cherkashina, Alexey Lyavdansky and Duaa Rashid
Part 3 Christian Arabic Studies
11 Strategies of Hidden Polemics and Dialogue in Medieval Christian-Arabic Literature
âSofia Melikyan
12 Fragments of an Unknown Maġribī Arabic Christian Text: Edition and Translation
âDmitry A. Morozov
13 Monotheism and Convivencia: A KarÅ¡Å«nÄ« Text about Islam and the QurʾÄn
âBarbara Roggema
14 Lost in Greek, Found in Arabic: A Source-Critical Analysis of the Patristic Treatise al-Firdaws al-ʿaqlī (The Noetic Paradise)
âAlexander Treiger
Part 4 Semitic Linguistics
15 DÄmeḵ, dmeḵ, and dammīḵ in Syriac
âNikolay Grishin
16 Adnominal Possession in Turoyo: New Evidence from the Kfarze Dialect
âKsenia Kashintseva
17 Maaloulians as Guest Workers in Mandatory Palestine
âAnna Bromirskaya, Philipp Burlakov, Anna Cherkashina, Charles G. Häberl and Sergey Loesov
Index
This volume is for those who are interested in Middle Eastern Christianity, history of the Middle East, Church history, Christian-Muslim relations, and Semitic linguistics.