The Third Lung: New Trajectories in Syriac Studies: In Honour of Sebastian P. Brock

Contents
Contributors
Introduction: The Third Lung
Part 1 Going Where We Should Have Gone
	Ephrem and the Mariological Motif of Conceptio per Aurem
	Seeking the Women of Ancient Syriac Christianity: Strategies of Method and Remembrance
	Teach Your Children Well: Martyrs, Monks, and Mothers in Severus of Antioch
	The Ladder of Prayer, the Ship of Stirrings, and the Exodus from Egypt
	Stuck between Voice and Silence: Ephrem and the Rabbis on Prayer
Part 2 Digging Deeper
	The Church’s “Third Lung”: Ancient Voices from the Syriac Orient That Speak to Today’s Western Society
	Peshitta Parables as Oral Performance
	Severus of Antioch on Ancient Church Customs: The Significance of Cyprian’s Letters as Quoted by Severus and Oriental Canonical Collections
	Theodicy in the Letter of Mara Bar Serapion: Connections with Philosophical (Stoic) Accounts of Divine Retribution
	A Monk and a Fish by the River of Babylon: An Unpublished Edifying Tale
	Notes on Syriac Learning in South India in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity
Part 3 Going Where We Have Not Been
	Bringing the Syriac Climacus to the Twenty-First Century
	Towards a Syriac Semantic Web from the Perspective of 2020
	Dialogue Elements in Late Syriac Poetry: The Ways of Transformation
	Syriac Apocalypticism and the Rise of Islam
	Christianity in Iraq and the Issue of Chaldean Identity
	Who Says? A Social History of Syriac Use in the Medieval Islamic Period
	Sergius Baḥīrā and a Syriac “Story of Muḥammad”
Index of Places
Index of Authors and Texts
Index of Bible Passages
General Index