Download PDF | LIT Verlag - Silk Road Traces_ Studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia-LIT Verlag (2023).
426 Pages
Preface
Syriac Christian Monastery in Shiiipang, Turfan: Notes on the Recent Archaeological Report from China Li Tang
Christian Remains from Mongolia: An Introduction and Update Bolormaa Oyunchimeg
The Church of the East Cemetery at Ilibalyk Steven T. Gilbert
Site Surveys of Archaeological Sites of Potential Relevance to the Church of the East in the Vicinity of Koilyk, Kazakhstan Anthony J. Watson
The Crosses of Shizhuziliang: Tracking Down Eight Christian Gravestones and a Marble Base Tjalling H.F. Halbertsma
Yonan of Almaliq and the Syro-Uighur Chifeng Brick (1253) Xiaolin Ma
New Finds of Coins and Archaeological Objects with Christian Symbols from Sughd and Chach A. A. Musakaeva
Iconography of Syriac Gravestones in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
Charles A. Stewart
The Church of the East: Is There a Theologically Contextual Typology for Church Architectural Form East of the Euphrates? Susan Balderstone
Christian Communities in Medieval Central Asia: Syriac and Syro-Turkic Inscriptions from Zhetysu and the Chuy Valley (9" — 14" Centuries)
Li Tang
Syriac Fragments from Turfan at Ryukoku University, Kyoto Hidemi Takahashi
Cursive Palaeography at Turfan: Exploring ‘Medial’ Estrangela Erica C.D. Hunter
Rome, Constantinople and the Mongols:
Latin and Greek Correspondence as Sources for the History of the Church of the East in Central Asia?
Dietmar W. Winkler
The Name Saliba in Nestorian Turkic Epitaphs in Kyrgyzstan and Its Direct Relationship to the Word Calabi in Anatolian Turkish Mehmet Tezcan
Some Notes on Wedding Rituals in Old Uyghur and Ottoman Turkish Peter Zieme
Timothy as Sponsor of the Asia Mission Harald Suermann
The Friend of My Enemy
The Church of the East and Sino-Central Asian Relations in the Mid-9" Century
Andrew Platt
How Exactly Did Mary Conceive Jesus by the Holy Spirit?
A Philological Approach to the Reconstruction of the Pneumatology of the Sogdian Christians
Ali B. Langroudi
The Cross and Jingjiao Theology Glen L. Thompson
The Humanity of Christ in the Jingjiao Dunhuang Manuscript Discourse on the One God
Rong Huang
Inculturation in the East Syriac Church in Central Asia and China Baby Varghese
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PREFACE
The Salzburg International Conference series on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia has been running for almost two decades. Beginning in 2003 in Salzburg, it takes place in normal circumstances every three years in Salzburg. However, the conference of 2019 was a special occasion, as it took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Given all the recent exciting archaeological discoveries of medieval Syriac Christianity in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, we, the organisers of the conference decided to hold our 6" triennial conference in Kazakhstan in Central Asia, thus bringing scholars and scholarly discussions closer to both the archaeological sites and the artefacts in situ.
Such an adventurous plan would not have been successfully executed without the cooperation of our collaborators from Central Asia, especially Kazakhstan to whom our big thanks are due. Among them, the names of two colleagues who played an important role in co-planning the conference and facilitating its sections are particularly worth mentioning: Kevin White, head of the Department of Nestorian Studies, Kazakhstan Archaeological Institute of Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences and Dr. Dmitriy Voyakin, director of the International Institute for Central Asian Studies in Samarkand by the UNESCO Silk Road Programme.
From June 20 to 26, 2019, about fifty people from academic institutions in the Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America participated in the 6" Salzburg International Conference on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia. What is more, as a noteworthy addition to the conference, scholars from Central Asia, especially, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan joined us and presented their papers during the conference. A total of thirty-five papers covering a wide range of topics related to Syriac Christianity were presented at the conference. The participants also benefited from a field trip to the newly excavated site of a medieval Christian cemetery in Usharal (Ilibalyk) near Zharkent, Kazakhstan.
The current volume is a collection of the revised papers which were originally presented at the Almaty conference in 2019. The papers can be divided into four areas of research focus: archaeological discovery, textual studies, historical perspective and theological reflection. Recent archaeological excavations of medieval Christian sites in Central Asia and China have come to the forefront of our attention. Two newly excavated sites have yielded some exciting results recently: the Syriac Christian cemetery in Usharal in Eastern Kazakhstan and the monastery ruin in Bulayig, Turfan, China. More detailed archaeological reports on both sites are expected.
Meanwhile, as usual, scholars in this field have also conducted their research on other topics, such as, unearthed manuscripts related to Syriac Christianity, reflections on the history of Syriac Christian mission in Central Asia and China as well as the formation of theological thinking reflected in the written texts. The volume includes cutting-edge researches in various aspects of Syriac Christianity in China, Central Asia and along the Silk Road thanks to new archaeological discoveries and the recent excavations which have cast new light on the dissemination of medieval Syriac Christianity and its influence on communities along the Silk Road.
Upon releasing the current volume of newly edited research papers, we would like to render our heartfelt thanks specially to Dr. Victor Baillou of Salzburg and Prof. Mag. Mag. Dr. Martin Lang of Institut fiir Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik of the University of Innsbruck for their generous support in various ways. Last but not least, we extend our gratitude also to the Land Salzburg, Referat fiir Kultur und Wissenschaft for their timely support and generous backing of our research project.
We hope that this volume will benefit not only the academic community worldwide but also those who are interested in the studies of Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia.
Li Tang & Dietmar W. Winkler Salzburg, at the University of Salzburg
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