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New Reprints from ATOUR Publications
Posted By: ATOUR Publications (c-67-175-122-4.hsd1.il.comcast.net)
Date: Tuesday, 14 February 2006, at 7:27 p.m.
New Reprints from ATOUR Publications:
The Histories of Rabban Hormizd & Rabban Bar Idta
Rabban Hormizd is one of the most popular saints of the Assyrian Church of the East and the Chaldean Catholic Church. He is said to have been born of wealthy parents in the latter half of the 6th or the first half of the 7th century. In spite of his privileged background, he chose to follow the ascetic life as a monk. He was renowned in his lifetime for his deep devotion to fasting and prayer. His spiritual devotions are said to have enabled him to perform many miracles. After spending many years in various monasteries, he founded his own monastery near Alqosh which survives to this day under his name. Volume I contains the Syriac texts of the prose life of Rabban Hormizd and Rabban Bar Idta as well as the metrical life of Rabban Hormizd composed by Mar Sargis of Adhorbaijan. Volume II contains the English translation of the prose life of Rabban Hormizd and Rabban Bar Idta and the English translation of the metrical life of Rabban Hormizd composed by Mar Sargis of Adhorbaijan.
Volume I: 446 pages, 6.0" x 9.0", $19.99
Volume II: 392 pages, 6.0" x 9.0", $19.99Three Articles by Alphonse Mingana
Alphonse Mingana (1878-1937), a former Chaldean priest, was one of the great Syriac and Arabic scholars of the early 20th century. His passion for collecting Syriac and Arabic manuscripts resulted in the establishment of the "Mingana Collection" at Selly Oak Colleges in Birmingham, England. During his life, he published over eighty articles and books, many of which are based on his manuscript finds. This volume reproduces three of his articles: 1. The Early Spread of Christianity in Central Asia and the Far East:A New Document; 2. A Charter of Protection Granted to the Nestorian Church in A.D. 1138,by Muktafi II, Caliph of Baghdad; 3. The Early Spread of Christianity in India.
176 pages, 6.0" x 9.0", $12.99The Book of the Bee by Solomon, Bishop of Basra
“The Book of Gleanings Called the Bee” was written in the first half of the 13th century by Mar Shlimon, Metropolitan of Prath Maishan (Basra) of the Assyrian Church of the East. The poetic title of the book originates in the idea that a bee goes from flower to flower collecting precious nectar from each. Likewise, our author has assembled into one book a great variety of information gleaned from many books including the Bible as well as apocryphal works. The book serves as a kind of religious and philosophical history of the world from creation to the coming of the Antichrist and the afterlife. This volume contains the Syriac text edited from four manuscripts and an English translation.
358 pages, 6.0" x 9.0", $17.99The Book of Crumbs: A Reader of Syriac Literature
The “Book of Crumbs” contains 47 selections of Syriac literature of the Assyrian Church of the East with introductions to each selection. The book was produced by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Assyrian Mission in Urmia, Iran as a textbook to be used in their schools for advanced students. The book was compiled by the missionary David Jenks with the help of Shamasha Yosip DeKelaita (later Qashisha). Among the authors represented are Mar Aprim the Great, Mar Touma of Marga, Mar Babai the Great, Mar Audisho Bar Brikha, Mar Gewargis of Atour, Mar Khamis Bar Qardahe, and Mar Narsai.
398 pages, 8.5" x 11", $19.99The New Testament of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Part I: The Four Gospels
This volume contains the first part (the four Gospels) of the original issue of the complete New Testament published by the American Protestant Mission to the Assyrians in Urmia, Iran in 1846. The book was printed in both the newly developed Modern Assyrian language and the Syriac language that was the liturgical and only literary language in use among the Assyrians before the creation of the new literary language. The texts are presented in parallel columns. This volume represents the first time that the complete New Testament was published in Assyrian and it represents one of only three known instances where the American Mission published any text in Syriac. Although later translations were based on the Greek text of the New Testament, the Assyrian translation given here was made from the Syriac Peshitta version in the accompanying column with variations from the Greek included as footnotes.
366 pages, 8.5" x 11", $14.99Paradise of Eden
The “Paradise of Eden” is the poetic title that Mar Audisho Bar Brikha gave to his famous collection of 50 poems on religious subjects composed in the style known as “Maqamat”. The purpose of these poems was to demonstrate the beauty, subtlety and superiority of the Syriac language as a means of expression in comparison to similar claims made for the Arabic language. Mar Audisho clearly demonstrates his profound knowledge of the Syriac language in these highly complex poems. For example, poem 3 is composed of 29 lines. Each line consists of two verses of eight syllables each. The letters of the first verse are the same and follow the same order as the letters of the second verse read backwards. This volume presents an English translation of the first 14 poems of the Paradise of Eden along with the commentary and explanations later supplied by Mar Audisho himself. The Syriac text of these 14 poems is provided from the edition of the complete work published by Qashisha Yosip Kelaita in Mosul in 1928.
150 pages, 6.0" x 9.0", $12.99History of the Church of the East
This history of the Church of the East from its origins until the year 630 was written in Assyrian by O. H. Parry, a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Assyrian Mission. The book was published by the Assyrian Mission Press in Urmia, Iran in 1907.
440 pages, 8.5" x 11", $19.99Grammar of the Modern Syriac Language
Grammar of the Modern Syriac Language by David T. Stoddard is the first grammar in any language of the Modern Assyrian literary language which was developed from the spoken Aramaic dialects of the Assyrians under the auspices of the American Protestant Mission to the Assyrians. This mission was established among the Assyrians of Urmia, Iran in 1834 and the author served as one of the original members of the mission.
190 pages, 6.0" x 9.0", $13.99
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