Ritual and Music in South India: Syrian Christian Liturgical Music in Kerala Author(s): Israel J. Ross
This study is concerned with the rituals and musical practices of the Syrian Christian communities of the south- western or Malabar coast of India. These communities have lived and flourished in South India for almost two thousand years and were almost completely isolated from cult music in kerala
Read MoreOn Syrian Liturgical Chant Author(s): Ludwig Bonvin
THE Journal Asiatique, 1912 and 1913, contains a series of articles on Syrian music by the Benedictine monk Dom Jeannin. These articles desreve our consideration. Dechevrens and other Gregorian scholars have repeatedly drawn ou attention to the importance of the Oriental liturgical music clearing up many a problem of the Gregorian chant; and thi is but Syrian...
Read MoreA Poem in the Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Urmia Author(s): L. Yaure
LITTLE did I realize twenty-five years ago, when I proposed an Aram topic for my doctoral dissertation to Prof. William F. Albright at Johns Hopkins University,’ that I would one day be addressing the Societ Biblical Literature as its president on a subject that would be related to s topic and that has held my interest during the suc A poem in...
Read MoreThe Aramaic Origin of the Gospel of John Author(s): Charles C. Torrey
IN the numerous discussions of the Greek of New Testament documents with reference to the question of translation from Aramaic originals, the Fourth Gospel has generally been left out of account. The language of the Synoptists has been ex- amined very diligently from this point of view, especially dur ing the past two or three decades, and at least one competen Semitic scholar has published material of high importance Aramaic origin of the gosple of...
Read MoreThe Aramaic Language and the Study of the New Testament Author(s): Joseph A. Fitzmyer
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