Winds of Jingjiao : studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia / edited by Li Tang and Dietmar W. Winkler.

Twenty-four contributions in English, one in German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Since 2003, the Salzburg International Conference on the Church of the East in China and Central Asia, has provided an academic platform for scholars around the world ... The present volume is a collection of papers from the 4th Salzburg International Conference of this kind held in June 2013"--Pages 9-10.

Introduction: winds of Jingjiao /  Li Tang --  Manuscripts & inscriptions --  The Dunhuang Jingjiao documents in Japan: a report on their reappearance /  Matteo Nicolini-Zani --  Critical remarks on the so-called newly discoverd Jingjiao epitaph from Luoyang with a preliminary English translation /  Li Tang --  Syriac crosses in Central and Southwest China /  Dale Albert Johnson --  The geographical context of the Tangtse Inscriptions /  Roderic L. Mullen -- Commemorating the saints at Turfan /  Erica C D. Hunter --  More gravestones in Syriac script from Tashkent, Panjikent and Ashgabat /  Mark Dickens --  The tale of Ahikar according to a Garshuni Turkish manuscript of the John Rylands University library /  Peter Zieme --  The exorcism in the newly found Khara-Khoto Syriac document /  Shinichi Muto --  Historical perspectives --  Al-Bayrūnī - The twelve apostles and the twelve months of the Julian year /  Francois de Blois -  Changing mission at home and abroad: Catholico Timothy I and the Church of the East on the early Abbasid period /  Andrew Platt --  The westwardness of things: literary geography and the Church of the East /  Scott Fitzgerald Johnson --  Byzantine-Rite Christians (Melkites) in Central Asia and China and their contacts with the Church of the East /  Ken Parry --  On Christianity among Central Asian and Syr Daryan Oghuz and their possible Nestorian connections /  Mehmet Tezcan --  An anachronism in the Stele of Xi'an - why Henanisho? /  Max Deeg --  Beth Sinaye: a typical East Syrian ecclesiatical province? /  David Wilmshurst --  'Eunuchs for the Kingdom of God' : rethinking the Christian-Buddhist Imperial translation incident of 787 /  R. Todd Godwin --  Why did Chinese Nestorians name their religion Jingjiao? /  Xiaogui Zhang --  The institution of Chongfu Si of the Yuan Dynasty /  Xiaoping Yin --  Priests of Jingjiao in the Xizhou Uighur Kingdom (Five Dynasties - the early Song Dynasty) /  Yuanyuan Wang --  Liturgical tradition & theological reflections --  Lost in transcription? - the theological vocabulary of Christian texts in Central Asia and China /  Samuel N.C. Lieu --  Uber die enkulturation der persisch-syrischen Christen im Tangzeitlichen China - am Beispiel der abgewandelten Form der "Zehn Gebote" im "Buch über Jesus den Messias" /  Zhu Li --  The sacraments of the Assyrian Church of the East /  Mar Awa Royel --  Theological transfer: how did monks from China influence East Syriac sacramental theology? /  Dietmar W. Winkler --  Ying/[ying]/Nirmāṇa: a case study on the translatability of Buddhism into Jingjiao /  Donghua Zhu.

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