Translated-transliterated amen made Christian liturgy more accessible. In Latin phrases like “amen, amen, fiat, fiat,” it became bureaucratic boilerplate. … Read the post amen amen, fiat fiat: theological, liturgical, bureaucratic
Paul of Tarsus was a su‘lūk. He provides an insightful comparative persona for the su‘lūk of the ancient Arabian ode Lāmiyyat al-‘Arab. … Read the post Paul of Tarsus rewrote Lāmiyyat al-‘Arab
Patriarch Michael the Great’s 12th-century Syriac chronicle presented sequential events for fellow learned clerics to study and ponder Christian history. … Read the post political-natural records of Jesus in Syriac chronicle of Michael the Great
Amen, both transliterated and translated from Hebrew into Greek, suggests institutionalized linguistic inclusiveness in the early Christian church. … Read the post amen from Hebrew into Greek in early Christian inscriptions
Jesus’ healings in the Gospel of John show God made manifest and glorified in astonishingly wide-ranging styles and forms of communication. … Read the post John recorded Jesus’ healings in earthly, comic ways