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Law and social values in Lao society in the light of the traditional concept of müang: with a transcription of "phonsaawadaan-müang-laan-saang" and a list of Lao historical manuscripts
In: SEACOM-Studien zur Südostasienkunde 12
Phithīkam kāntǣngdō̜ng lǣ khamsō̜n khū somlot mai
In: Khwāmhū khū Lāo
In: ຄວາມຮູ້ຄູ່ລາວ
Laos: restaurer et préserver le patrimoine national ; colloque EFEO 1996 ; [Colloque sur la Préservation du Patrimoine Artistique et Historique du Laos ; 12 - 15 février 1996, Vientiane] =P̱aḥdet-Lāv-pūlaḥnaḥ-leeḥ-p̱ok-pǎk-ḥǎk-sā-molaḥtok-heeṅ-jāt
In: Éditions de Cahiers de France
The history of the "Slave of Christ": from Jewish child to Christian martyr
In: Persian martyr acts in Syriac 6
"The History of the 'Slave of Christ' : From Jewish Child to Christian Martyr offers the first critical editions and English translations of the two Syriac recensions of this fascinating text, which narrates the story of a young Jewish child, Asher, who after converting to Christianity and taking the name ʻAbda da-Miḥa ('slave of Christ') is martyred by his father Levi in a scene reminiscent of Abraham's offering of Isaac in Genesis 22. In a detailed introduction, the authors argue that the text is a fictional story composed during the early Islamic period (ca. 650-850) probably in Shigar (modern Sinjār). Building upon methodology from the study of Western Christian and Jewish texts, they further contend that the story's author constructs an imagined Jew based on the Hebrew Bible, thereby challenging the way that previous scholars have used this text as straightforward evidence for historical interactions between Jews and Christians in Babylonia at this time. This ultimately allows the authors to reevaluate the purpose of the text and to situate it in its Late Antique Babylonian context"--