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Lucas Van Rompay

Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies
Religious Studies
Box 90964, Durham, NC 27708-0964
216 Gray Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Early Christianity in the Near East

Chapter · January 1, 2021 The phrase Christianity and Empire conjures up the perennial relationship between Christian belief and structures of power that has been responsible for Christianity's political hegemony in a series of empires. This chapter deals with expressions of Christ ... Full text Cite

Prayer and worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to nth centuries

Journal Article TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GESCHIEDENIS · 2018 Cite

The long shadow of vatican II: Living faith and negotiating authority since the second vatican council

Book · January 1, 2015 With the Second Vatican Council (1962© 65), the Roman Catholic Church for the first time took a positive stance on modernity. Its impact on the thought, worship, and actions of Catholics worldwide was enormous. Benefiting from a half century of insights ga ... Cite

Introduction

Journal Article The Long Shadow of Vatican II: Living Faith and Negotiating Authority Since the Second Vatican Council · January 1, 2015 Cite

108 entries

Chapter · 2011 Cite

Jerusalem

Chapter · 2011 Cite

From Waste to Wealth

Journal Article Newsletter of The Levantine Foundation · 2009 Study of 8 waste leaves from different Syriac manuscripts in Deir al-Surian (Egypt), which turned out to belong to a manuscript that is now kept in the British Library, London (ms. Add. 17,270). ... Cite

Syriac and Related Scripts

Chapter · 2009 Overview of Syriac, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, and Manichean Aramaic texts written in Egypt. Included are texts written on parchment, papyrus, and paper as well as inscriptions on hard substrates. ... Cite

Review of: S.P. Brock, The Wisdom of St. Isaac of Nineveh (2006)

Journal Article Review of Biblical Literature · 2008 Cite

Severus, Patriarch of Antioch (512-518) in the Greek, Syriac, and Coptic Traditions

Journal Article Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies · 2008 Cite

Epilogue

Chapter · 2008 Arguing that at the root of modern racial thinking is the effort to constitute Western identity as overcoming its internal, Oriental Other, the Jews, in Race: A Theological Account I engage this problem for what it is: a theological problem. I contend that ... Full text Link to item Cite

Review of: A. Schmidt and S. Westphalen, Christliche Wandmalereien in Syrien (2005)

Journal Article Eastern Christian Art in its Late Antique and Islamic Contexts · 2007 Cite

Syriac Studies: The Challenges of the Coming Decade

Journal Article Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies · January 2007 Cite

Les versions syriaques

Chapter · 2006 Cite

The Maronites

Chapter · 2006 A comprehensive history of the origins and development of Christian worship, from ancient times to the present day, provides a defintive study of the evolution of Christian liturgy, theology, church history, artistic influence, and social ... ... Cite

Society and Community in the Christian East

Chapter · April 18, 2005 This book introduces the Age of Justinian, the last Roman century and the first flowering of Byzantine culture. ... Cite

Mallpânâ dilan Suryâyâ. Ephrem in the Works of Philoxenus of Mabbog: Respect and Distance

Journal Article Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies · January 2004 Cite

Mallpânâ dilan Suryâyâ. Ephrem in the Works of Philoxenus of Mabbog: Respect and Distance

Journal Article Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies · January 2004 Cite

Some Further Notes on Thecla in Syriac Christianity

Journal Article Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies · July 2003 Cite

Thecla in Syriac Christianity. Preliminary Observations

Journal Article Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies · July 2002 Cite

New Foreword

Chapter · 2002 The main reference for dating Syriac manuscripts and the standard in the field. This Album conveniently brings together two hundred facsimiles, each representing a page of a dated Syriac manuscript. ... Cite

Takritans in the Egyptian Desert: The Monastery of the Syrians in the Ninth Century

Journal Article Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies · 2001 Cite

Syriac Papyrus Fragments Recently Discovered in Deir al-Surian (Egypt)

Journal Article Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies · January 2001 Cite

A New Syriac Inscription in Deir al-Surian (Egypt)

Journal Article Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies · January 2001 Cite

Past and Present Perceptions of Syriac Literary Tradition

Journal Article Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies · January 2000 Cite

Les versions syriaques

Chapter · 2000 This text is published here along with the parallel (and previously unpublished) passages in the 'Commentary' of Procopius of Gaza. ... Cite

Jacob of Edessa and the Early History of Edessa

Chapter · January 1, 1999 Of particular interest is the number of newly edited Syriac texts in this volume, which make available translations of Greek theological works, works resulting from the reception of pagan philosophy, and magic texts reflecting popular ... ... Cite

The Book of Genesis in Jewish and Oriental Christian Interpretation

Book · January 1, 1997 This volume consists of sixteen essays, most of which are revised versions of papers read at a symposium held in May 1995 in Jerusalem at the Hebrew University and the Institute for Advanced Studies. ... Cite

Antiochene Biblical Interpretation: Greek and Syriac

Chapter · January 1, 1997 This volume consists of sixteen essays, most of which are revised versions of papers read at a symposium held in May 1995 in Jerusalem at the Hebrew University and the Institute for Advanced Studies. ... Cite

L’informateur syrien de Basile de Césarée. À propos de Genèse 1,2

Journal Article Orientalia Christiana Periodica: commentarii de re orientali aetatis christianae sacra et profana · 1992 Cite

Christenen in het Nabije Oosten

Chapter · 1985 Artikelen over minderheidsgroepen in de Islam. ... Cite

A Letter of the Jews to the Emperor Marcian concerning the Council of Chalcedon

Journal Article Orientalia Lovaniensa Periodica · 1981 Cite