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F Crawford Burkitt
The Book of Rules of Tyconius - Newly Edited From the mss. - with an Introduction and an Examination Into the Text of the Biblical Quotations is an unchanged, high-quality…
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The earliest sources for the life of Jesus. This book, The earliest sources for the life of Jesus, by F. Crawford Burkitt, is a replication of a book originally published…
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In this book the Syriac texts along with translations of the tales of the martyrs are introduced by Professor Burkitt with a commentary focusing on the historicity of the different…
Addresses Marcion and focuses on how this early Christian thinker remained ahead of his time while also falling out of the mainstream of what was an emerging Christianity.
Focuses on aspects of the Syriac-speaking Church. This booklet provides a brief survey of the work of Aphraates, Philoxenus of Mabbug, Ephraim the Syrian, and Rabbula.
Addresses the literary originality of the Gospel of Mark . This title surveys the priority of Mark , the shared Synoptic material, and the literary unique sections of Mark .
States that in early Christianity it was Jesus that was preached and not Jesus’ sayings. This book suggests some criteria for finding Jesus’ original words and then applies them in…
Traces the origin of the authoritative four-fold Gospels to about 150 of the Common Era when they are amply attested together. Positing a three-stage evolution to the canonical Gospels, this…
Focuses on aspects of the Syriac-speaking Church. This work examines the ancient Syriac novel, The Acts of Judas Thomas .
Addresses the enduring questions of authorship and historicity, comparing the Gospel of John to the Synoptics, Philo, the Gnostics, and the Stoics.
Focuses on aspects of the Syriac-speaking Church. Starting from the basic difference between Eastern and Western Christian outlooks, this booklet sketches the early history of documented Edessa.
Deals with the development of marriage and the role of sacraments in the early Syriac Church.
Argument by the Norris Professor of Divinity at Cambridge that the spelling of the Syriac version of the Gospels should not be taken as authority for the original Aramaic names.
This book attempts to determine the Gospel text used by Ephraim, and the bearing his quotations have upon the date of the Peshitta. Ephraim’s death in roughly 373 AD means…
Includes essays that address many critical issues regarding the historical veracity of the Gospels. This volume addresses the canonical Gospels and discusses Marcion and non-canonical gospels.
A study of extra-biblical apocalypses. It includes the Schweich lectures of 1913 that address the book of Enoch , minor Jewish and early Christian apocalypses, especially the Ascension of Isaiah…
Provides an introduction, translation and commentary on a text (BM Add 14528), which provides deeper insight not only into practice, but also into the conception of the canon. This title…
Addresses the composition and literary characteristics of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke .
Examines the concept of gospel in Matthew and Luke .
The Book of Rules of Tyconius - with an introduction and an examination into the text of the Biblical quotations is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of…
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
A scholarly and insightful examination of the historical and literary contexts of the Gospel narratives, exploring their origins, composition, and theological significance.
This work has been selected by scholars as…
Ten Lectures Delivered In The Spring Of 1906 At The Passmore Edwards Settlement In London. Contains Note On The Latin Prologues To St. Paul’s Epistles.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
The Curetonian Version of the Four Gospels, with the readings of the Sinai Palimpsest and the early Syriac Patristic evidence, edited, collected, and arranged by F. Craw Burkitt, MA University…
The study of the Gospels may be divided here for convenience into two branches, which may be called Textual Criticism and Introduction. Under the head of Introduction we may group…
This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.
F. Crawford Burkitt (1864-1935) was Norrisian Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge from 1905-35. His other publications include ‘Evangelion da-Mepharreshe’ (1904), ‘The Gospel History and Its Transmission’ (1906)…
Deals with the non-canonical, or apocryphal gospels. This study considers the Testamentum Domini , Pistis Sophia , the Gospel and Apocalypse of St Peter, the Protevangelium of James , the…
Focuses on aspects of the Syriac-speaking Church. This booklet considers the role of the Peshitta, the Diatessaron, and the four Gospels and how their history at Edessa suggests that the…
(LARGE PRINT EDITION) Ten Lectures Delivered In The Spring Of 1906 At The Passmore Edwards Settlement In London. Contains Note On The Latin Prologues To St. Paul’s Epistles.
During the reign of Diocletian (284-305) Christians suffered widespread persecution, even to the point of death. This book introduces the Syriac texts along with translations of the tales of the…
This book provides the Syriac text along with a translation of the tale of Euphemia and the martyrs’ deliverance of her from the Goth.
Focusing on aspects of the Syriac-speaking Church, this booklet explores Bardaisan and his unique contribution to Syriac Christianity.
