The modern Assyrians of the Middle East : encounters with Western Christian missions, archaeologists, and colonial powers /

The modern Assyrians of the Middle East : encounters with Western Christian missions, archaeologists, and colonial powers /

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 re...

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Main Author: Joseph, John, 1923-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston, MA : Brill, 2000.

Series: Studies in Christian Mission 26.
Studies in Christian Mission Online, ISBN: 9789004322295.

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Assyrians > Middle East.
Assyrian Church of the East members.
Assyrians.
Middle East.

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Call Number: BT1440 .J67 2000

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material
  • NESTORIANS, CHALDEANS, SYRIANS, ARAMEANS, ASSYRIANS
  • EARLY BEGINNINGS
  • MISSIONARIES, KURDS, AND CHRISTIANS
  • MISSION TO AZERBAYJAN
  • THE POWERS, KURDS, AND CHRISTIANS
  • THE CALM AND THE STORM
  • IN EXILE
  • THE INEVITABLE CLASH
  • BETWEEN MUTUALLY HOSTILE NEIGHBORS
  • FROM MISSIONS TO ECUMENISM
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY: Books and Public Documents
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY: Articles and Periodicals
  • INDEX.