The Modern Assyrians of the Middle East: Encounters with Western Christian Missions, Archaeologists, and Colonial Power
This is a revised edition of the author's The Nestorians and Their Muslim Neighbors (Princeton University Press, 1961). Early in the nineteenth century, the Aramaic-speaking Nestorian Christians received special attention when American Protestant missions decided to educate and reform them to help meet the challenge that Islam presented to the growing missionary movements.When archaeologist Layard further publicized the historic minority as Assyrians, the name acquired a new connotation when other forces at work in the region - religious, nationalistic, imperialistic - entangled these modern Assyrians in vagaries and manipulations in which th…
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- ISBN: 978-90-04-11641-2
- EAN: 9789004116412
- Produktnummer: 1513672
- Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 292 S.
- Masse: H24.7 cm x B16.4 cm x D2.9 cm 665 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 26
- Gewicht: 665
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John Joseph, Ph.D. (1957) in Middle Eastern History, Princeton University, is Lewis Audenreid Professor of History, emeritus, at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His published works have been mainly on Christians of the Syriac tradition.
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