Adam H Becker: 2 books
Revival and Awakening
American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Most Americans have little understanding of the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East. They assume that the two are rooted fundamentally in regional history, not in the history of contact with the broader world. However, as Adam H. Becker shows in this book, Americans—through...
Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom
The School of Nisibis and the Development of Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The School of Nisibis was the main intellectual center of the Church of the East in the sixth and early seventh centuries C.E. and an institution of learning unprecedented in antiquity. Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom provides a history both of the School and of the scholastic culture of the...