The making of Syriac Jerusalem: representations of the Holy City in Syriac literature of late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

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Notes

1. Cf. Scott Johnson, “Where is Syriac Pilgrimage Literature in Late Antiquity? Exploring the Absence of a Genre”. In Historiography and Space in Late Antiquity, edited by Peter Van Nuffelen, 179. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

2. Cf. Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, “From Sacred Travel to Monastic Career: The Evidence of Late Antique Syriac Hagiography”, Adamantius 16 (2010): 356–357.

3. Sebastian P. Brock, Aaron M. Butts, George A. Kiraz, and Lucas Van Rompayeds, eds. Gorgias Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Syriac Studies. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2011, s.v. “Art and Architecture”.

4. Gorgias Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Syriac Studies, s.v. “Jerusalem”.

5. Gorgias Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Syriac Studies, s.v. “Ṣawma, Rabban”.

6. Cf. “aksaniutha”, Bitton-Ashkelony, “From Sacred Travel to Monastic Career”, 366.

7. Cf. Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, “The Limit of the Mind (νοῦς): Pure Prayer according to Evagrius Ponticus and Isaac of Nineveh”, Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 15, no. 2 (2011): 291–321.

8. Research on amulets in Syriac tradition, cf. Erica Hunter, “Another Scroll Amulet from Kurdistan”. In After Bardaisan: Studies on Continuity and Change in Syriac Christianity in Honour of Prof. Han J W Drijversi edited by Gerrit. J. Reinink, 161–172. Leuven: Peeters, 1999. Cf. Erica Hunter, “Genres of Syriac Amulets: A Study of Cambridge Ms. Syr 3086”, Orientalia Christiana Analecta 236 (1990): 355–368. Cf. Erica Hunter, “Traversing Time and Location: A Prayer-Amulet to Mar Tamsis from Turfan”. In From the Oxus River to the Chinese Shores: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia, edited by Dietmar Winkler and Li Tang, 23–41. Münster: Lit Verlag, 2013.

9. Cf. Anver M. Emon, Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law: Dhimmis and Others in the Empire of Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). Cf. Moshe Gil, “Dhimmī Donations and Foundations for Jerusalem (638–1099)”, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 27, no. 2 (1984): 156–174.

10. Cf. Anton Pritula, The Wardā: An East Syriac Hymnological Collection. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015.

11. Cf. Herman Teule, “La renaissance syriaque (1026–1318)”, Irénikon 75 (2002): 174–194. Cf. Herman G.H. Teule and Carmen F. Tauwinkl, eds., The Syriac Renaissance (Leuven: Peeters, 2010).

12. Cf. Josef W. Meri, “A Late Medieval Syrian Pilgrimage Guide: Ibn al-Hawrānī’s Al-Ishārāt ilā Amākin al-Ziyārāt”, Medieval Encounters 7, no. 1 (2001): 6.