WORKS ON CHRISTIANITY IN THE EAST

 

 

 

 

The Ante-Nicene Fathers volume VIII

The Doctrina Addai (pp 657-666)

The Story concerning the King of Edessa (pp 651-653)

(etc)

 

George Appassery VC, "Training of Priests in Mar Thoma Margam"
Ephrem's Theological Journal 7.1 (March 2003), 67-90

 

Mar Aprem, Nestorian Missions

Mar Narsai Press: Kerala , India 1976

 

Aziz S. Atiya, A History of Eastern Christianity

Methuen and Notre Dame Univ. Press 1967 and 1980 (in print Kraus Reprint)

 

W. Barthold, Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion 3^rd edition

New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt Ltd 1991 (reprint)

 

Bat Ye’or, The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam From Jihad to Dhimmitude

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 1996

 

Wilhelm Baum, “The Syrian Christian Community and its Contacts to Europe and the Mediterranean Area before the Arrival of the Portuguese”

Ephrem’s Theological Journal 5, 1 (March 2001), 71-81

 

Wilhelm Baum and Dietmar W. Winkler, The Church of the East A Concise History
London and New York : RoutledgeCurzon 2003

 

Jerry H. Bentley, Old World Encounters Cross-cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times

New York : Oxford University Press 1993

(This book should be used with caution.)

 

Luce Boulnois, The Silk Road

New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1966

 

Francoise Briquel, “The Syriac Sources relating to the persecution of the Christians of Najran in South Arabia ”

The Harp Vol. VIII, IX, July 1995-1996, pp 41-52

 

Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Holy Women of the Syrian Orient

Berkeley : University of California Press 1987

 

S. P. Brock, Studies in Syriac Spirituality

The Syriac Churches Series volume thirteen

Poona : Anita Printers 1988

(contains three studies of St. Isaac the Syrian)

 

Sebastian P. Brock, “Christians in the Sasanian Empire: A Case of Divided Loyalties”

VI in Syriac Perspectives on Late Antiquity

Aldershot , Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Limited 1984 (reprint 1997)

 

L. W. Brown, The Indian Christians of St. Thomas

Cambridge Univ. Press 1956

 

L.E. Browne, THE ECLIPSE OF CHRISTIANITY IN ASIA From the Time of Muhammad till the Fourteenth Century

Cambridge Univ. Press 1933

 

Christopher Buck, “The Universality of the Church of the East: How Persian was Persian Christianity?”

Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society X, 1 (1996) pp 54-95

 

F. Crawford Burkitt, EARLY EASTERN CHRISTIANITY St. Margaret’s Lectures 1904 on the Syriac-speaking Church

 John Murray: London 1904

 

-----------------------, Early Christianity outside the Roman Empire

Cambridge Univ. Press 1899

 

-----------------------, Euphemia and the Goth with the acts of Martyrdom of the Confessors of Edessa edited and examined

Williams and Norgate for the Text and Translation Society: London 1913

 

Friar Giovanni DiPlano Carpini, The Story of the Mongols Whom We Call Tartars

Boston : Branden Publishing Company 1996

 

Marcia Cassis, “Kokhe, Cradle of the Church of the East: An Archaeological and Comparative Study”

The Canadian Society for Syriac Studies Journal 2 (2002), 62-78

 

David Christian, A History of Russia , Central Asia and Mongolia Volume 1 Inner Asia from Prehistory to the Mongol Empire

Malden , Mass: Blackwell Publishers 1998

 

Peter Clark, Zoroastrianism An Introduction to an Ancient Faith

Portland , Oregon : Sussex Academic Press 1998

(1-898723-78-8)

 

J.F. Coakley and K. Parry (Guest Editors), The Church of the East: Life and Thought

BULLETIN OF THE JOHN RYLANDS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF MANCHESTER

Volume 78, Number 3, Autumn 1996

 

Maria Adelaide Lala Comneno, “Nestorianism in Central Asia during the First Millennium”

Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society vol. XI, no. 1 (1997) pp 20-67

 

L.I. Conrad, “Varietas Syriaca: Secular and Scientific Culture in the Christian Communities of Syria after the Arab Conquest”, 85-105 in

After Bardaisan: Studies on Continuity and Change in Syriac Christianity in Honour of Professor Han J.W. Drijvers, (ed.) G.J. Renink and A.C. Klugkist

Loouvain: Peeters Press 1999

 

Youssef Courbage and Philippe Fargues, Christians and Jews under Islam

New York : I.B. Tauris Co. 1997

(1-86064-285-3)

 

William Cureton, Ancient Syriac Documents relative to the earliest establishment of Christianity in Edessa and the neighboring countries...

(reprint Amsterdam : Oriental Press 1967)

 

---------------, Spicilegium Syriacum containing remains of Bardesan, Meliton, Ambrose and Mara Bar Serapion

London : Rivingtons, Waterloo Place 1855 (reprint Lexington , Kentucky : The American Theological Library Association 1965)

 

Jean Dauvillier, “L’Expansion de l’Eglise Syrienne en Asie Centrale et en Extreme-Orient” L’Orient Syrien 1 (1956)

 

Alain Desreumaux + Francoise Briquel-Chatonnet, "Vestiges of Early Syriac Presence in Kerala"
The Harp 10.1, 2 (March, July 1997), 99-102

 

H.J.W. Drijvers, The Religion of Palmyra

Leiden 1976

 

John C. England, The Hidden History of Christianity in Asia The Churches of the East Before 1500

ISPCK, Delhi & CCA, Hong Kong 1998

ISBN: 81-7214-242-0

 

Kazuo Enoki, “The Nestorian Christianism in China in Medieval Time according to recent Historical and Archaeological Researches”, 45-83

Atti del convegno internazionale sul tema L’oriente cristiano nella storia della civilta; Roma 31 marzo-3 aprile 1963, Firenze 4 aprile 1963

Roma: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1964

 

J.N. Farquhar, “The Apostle Thomas in North India ”

Bulletin of The John Rylands Library Manchester Vol. 10 (1926) 80-111)

 

-------------, “The Apostle Thomas in South India ”

Bulletin of The John Rylands Library Manchester

Vol. 11 (1927) 20-50

 

Richard C. Foltz, Religions of the Silk Road Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century

New York , NY : St. Martin ’s Press 1999

 

John Foster, The Nestorian Tablet and Hymn Translations of Chinese texts from the first period of the Church in China , 635-c. 900

London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (n. d.)

 

John Foster, The Church of the T’ang Dynasty

London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge/ New York : The Macmillan Co. 1939

 

Richard N. Frye, The Heritage of Central Asia From Antiquity to the Turkish Expansion

Princeton , NJ : Markus Wiener Publishers 1996

 

Ian Gilman and Hans-Joachim Klimkeit, Christians in Asia before 1500

Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press 1999

 

Sidney H. Griffith, “‘Singles’ in God’s service: Thoughts on the Ihidaye from the works of Aphrahat and Ephraem the Syrian”

The Harp Vol. IV, No. 1, 2, 3, July 1991, pp 145-160

 

------------------, “Christianity in Edessa and the Syriac-speaking World: Mani, Bar Daysan, and Ephrem; the Struggle for Allegiance on the Aramean Frontier”

The Canadian Society for Syriac Studies Journal 2 (2002), 5-20

 

René Grousset, The Empire of the Steppes a History of Central Asia

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press 1970

 

Wolfgang Hage, Syriac Christianity in the East

Kerala:SEERI 1988 (Moran Etho #1)

 

Adolf Harnack, The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries

New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1908

 

Amir Harrak, “Trade Routes and the Christianization of the Near East ”

The Canadian Society for Syriac Studies Journal 2 (2002), 46-61

 

Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, "Jenghiz Khan and Sabutai", 3-34 in
Great Captains Unveiled
Salem , New Hampshire : Ayer Company, Publishers 1984 (reprint)

 

Susan Ashbrook Harvey, “The Edessan Martyrs and Ascetic Tradition”

The Harp Vol. VI, No. 2, November 1993, pp 99-110

 

Erik Hildinger, Warriors of the Steppe A Military History of Central Asia , 500 B.C. to 1700 A.D.

New York , NY :Sarpedon 1997

 

G.W. Houston, “An Overview of Nestorians in Inner Asia ”

Central Asiatic Journal 24 (1980), 60-68

 

W.J. Jobling and R.G. Tanner, “New Evidence for Early Christianity in the North-West Hejaz”

Studia Patristica XXV Peeters Press: Louvain 1993 pp 313-317

 

The Chronicle of Joshua the Stylite composed in Syriac in A.D. 507 with a translation into English and notes, William Wright

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 1882 (reprint Amsterdam : Philo Press 1968)

 

Wassilios Klein, “A Christian Heritage on the Northern Silk Road :  Archaeological and Epigraphic Evidence of Christianity in Kyrgyzstan ”

The Canadian Society for Syriac Studies Journal vol. 1 (2001), 85-100

 

-------------------, “Syriac Writings and Turkic Language according to Central Asian Tombstone Inscriptions”

Hugoye 5, 2 (July 2002)

http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol5No2/HV5N2Klein.html

 

Xavier Koodpuzha, Faith and Communion of the Indian Church of the Saint Thomas Christians
Vadvathoor, Kottayam: Oriental Institute of Religious Studies 1982

 

J. Labourt, Le Christianisme dans L’Empire Perse sous la Dynastie Sassanide (224-632)

Paris: Librairie Victor Lecoffre 1904 (2nd ed.)

 

George Lane , “An Account of Gregory Bar Hebraeus Abu al-Faraj and His Relations with the Mongols of Persia”

Hugoye Vol 2, No 2 (July 1999) http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol2No2/HV2N2GLane.html

 

James Legge, The Nestorian Monument of Hsî-an Fû

London : Trubner & Co. 1888 (reprint New York : Paragon Book Reprint Corp. 1966)

 

Liu, Xinru, The Silk Road Overland Trade and Cultural Interactions in Eurasia

Washington , DC : American Historical Association 1998

 

Pius Malekandathil, “ St. Thomas Christians and the Indian Ocean :  52 AD to 1500 AD”

Ephrem’s Theological Journal vol. 5 (October 2001) 2, 175-202

 

W. Stewart McCullough, A Short History of Syriac Christianity to the Rise of Islam

Scholars Press 1982

 

A. Mingana, “The Early Spread of Christianity in Central Asia and the Far East : A New Document”

The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library vol 9, 1, pp 297-371

 

-------------, “The Early Spread of Christianity in India ”

The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library vol 10, 2, pp 435-514

 

Stephen Andrew Missick, “The Assyrian Church in the Mongolian Empire as Observed by World Travellers in the Late 13th and Early 14th Centuries”

Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies Vol. XIII No. 2, (1999) pp 85-102

 

------------------------------, “ Socotra : The Mysterious Island of the Church of the East”

Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies XVI,1 (2002), 96-109

 

Samuel Hugh Moffett, A History of Christianity in Asia Volume I: Beginnings to 1500

Harper Collins 1992

 

A Monk of the Holy Transfiguration Monastery, "A Brief Historical and Theological Introduction to the Church of Persia to the End of the Seventh Century", 481-515 in
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian
Boston , Mass. : Holy Transfiguration Monastery 1984

 

Ray Riegert Thomas Moore (ed.),The Lost Sutras of Jesus Unlocking the Ancient Wisdom of the Xian Monks
Berkeley , CA : Seastone 2003

(this book is an example of how not to use ancient sources)

 

A.C. Moule, Christians in China Before the Year 1500

New York : Octagon Books 1977 (reprint)

 

George Nedungatt, S.J., “The Covenanters of the Early Syriac-Speaking Church ”

Orientalia Christiana Periodica 39 (1973) 191-215 and 419-444

 

Jacob Neusner, “The Conversion of Adiabene to Christianity”

NUMEN 13 (1966) pp. 144-150

 

N.A. Newman (ed.), The Early Christian-Muslim Dialogue A Collection of Documents from the First Three Islamic Centuries (632-900 AD) Translations and Commentary

Hatfield , PA : Interdisciplinary Biblical Research Institute 1993

ISBN: 0-944788-91-2

 

Charles E. Nowell, "The Historical Prester John"
Speculum A Journal of Medieval Studies 28.3 (July 1953), 435-445

 

The Rev. De Lacy O’Leary, B.D., THE SYRIAC CHURCH AND FATHERS A Brief Review of the Subject

London :SPCK 1909 (Gorgias Books reprint)

 

Paul Pallath, “Were the St. Thomas Christians in India Nestorians at the Time of the Synod of Diamper in 1599?”

Ephrem’s Theological Journal 5, 1 (March 2001), 34-70

 

--------------, “The St. Thomas Christian Church before the Sixteenth Century: A Model for Inculturation”

Ephrem’s Theological Journal 6.1 (March 2002), 3-32

 

------------, “Suppression of the All India Jurisdiction of the church of St. Christians in India ”

Ephrem’s Theological Journal 6.2 (2002), 162-185

 

Luciano Petech, “The Silk Road , Turfan and Tun-Huang in the First Millenium A.D.”

Alfredo Cannona (ed.), Turfan and Tun-Huang The Texts

Firenze : Leo S. Olschki Editore 1992, 1-13

 

T.V. Philip, East of the Euphrates Early Christianity in Asia

Delhi : ISPCK/Tiruvalla, India : Christian Sahitya Samithy 1998

(81-7214-441-5)

 

Placid J. Podipara CMI, The Rise and Decline of the Indian Church of the Thomas Christians
Kottayam: Oriental Institute For Religious Studies, India 1979

Jean Richard, “The Mongols and the Franks”

Journal of Asian History 3 (1969), 45-57

 

Francis M. Rogers, THE QUEST FOR EASTERN CHRISTIANS Travels and Rumor in the Age of Discovery

University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis 1962

 

Steven K. Ross, Roman Edessa Politics and Culture on the Eastern Fringes of the Roman Empire , 114-242 CE

New York : Routledge 2001

 

Paul S. Russell, “Syriac Christianity: Yesterday, Today and Forever”

The Journal of Maronite Studies 5, 1 (January-April 2001)

www.mari.org

 

Rabban Sauma, THE MONKS OF KUBLAI KHAN EMPEROR OF CHINA or The History of the Life and Travels of Rabban Sauma, Envoy and Plenipotentiary of the Mongol Khans to the Kings of Europe, and Markos who as Mar Yahbhallaha III became Patriarch of the Nestorian Church of Asia Translated from the Syriac by Sir E.A. Wallis Budge, Kt.

London : The Religious Tract Society 1928

 

D. A. Scott, “Medieval Christian Responses to Buddhism”

Journal of Religious History 15 (1988), 165-184

 

Irfan Shahid, Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century

Washington , DC : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 1984

 

Nicholas Sims-Williams, “Sogdian and Turkish Christians in the Turfan and Tun-Huang Manuscripts”

Alfredo Cannona (ed.), Turfan and Tun-Huang The Texts

Firenze : Leo S. Olschki Editore 1992, 43-61

 

Paul R. Spickard and Kevin M. Cragg, A Global History of Christians

Grand Rapids , Michigan : Baker Academic 1994

Chapter 6: “Christians in the Non-Christian World to 1500”, 126-145

 

Berthold Spuler, The Age of the Caliphs History of the Muslim World