Monday, 28 February 2011

Early Syrian Christian Literature digitised

180 rare Syrian Christian documents in the possession of Mar Aprem Mooken of the Church of the East have been digitized. The project was undertaken by the St Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute, Kerala, headed by Mar Aprem, in collaboration with Kerala state's communist government adn the Central European University in Budapest.

Among these documents is a facsimile edition of the canon law practised by St Thomas Christians. (Mar Aprem said the original had disappeared 7 centuries ago.) The law was compiled by Metropolitan Abdisho Bar Brikha of Nisibis and Armenia, a province of the Church of the East, in 1291. Istva Prczel of the Budapest University edited the revived text.

("Ancient Texts get Digital Touch," The Examiner [Mumbai] 162/9 [26 February 2011] 20-21.)

A. Kroot

History of the Telugu Christians. Trichinopoly: St Joseph's Press, 1910. [Amaladass and Young 374.]

David Kopf


  • British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: The Dynamics of Indian Modernization, 1773-1835. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969. [Amaladass and Young 374.]

D.H. Killingley


  • The Only True God: Works on Religion by Rammohun Roy, Selected and Translated from Bengali and Sanskrit. Newcastle upon Tyne: Greevatt & Grevatt, 1982. [Check date. Amaladass and Young 374.]

Vans Kennedy


  • "Oriental Translations of the Scriptures." Asiatic Journal (n.s.) 4 (1831) 169-180. [Amaladass and Young 374.]
  • "Remarks on Dr. Mill's Sanscrit Renderings of Scripture Terms." Oriental Christian Spectator 2 (1831) 200-207. [Amaladass and Young 374.]

Edward James


  • Brief Memoirs of the late... John Thomas James, ... Lord Bishop of Calcutta. London: J. Hatchrd and Son, 1830. [Amaladass and Young, The Indian Christiad 374.]

J.S.M. Hooper


  • Greek New Testament Terms in Indian Languages (A Comparative Word List). Bangalore: The Bible Society of India and Ceylon in association with The British and Foreign Bible Society, 1957. [Amaladass and Young, The Indian Christiad 373.]