Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- PUBLICATIONS OF RIFAAT Y. EBIED -- DO PICTURES FROM THE PAST REPEAT THEMSELVES? -- THE TEN HORNED RAM OF OLD GREEK DANIEL 8 -- A ʻGIFTʼ IN SYRIAC: A MOSAIC FROM OSRHOENE -- AL-QĀSIM IBN IBRĀHĪM AL-RASSĪ AND CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM RELATIONS IN THE NINTH CENTURY -- DISCOVERING 'PARADISE' AT TURFAN -- POST-CHALCEDONIAN CONFLICTS IN EGYPT: ON THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND ORTHODOXY OF TIMOTHY AELURUS (457-477 C.E.) -- THE CEREMONIAL CREATION OF THE BODY OF ADAM IN ALMA RIŠAIA RBA -- DANIEL OF ṢALAḤ'S INTRODUCTION TO THE PSALMS, CHAPTER 1-16: TIMELESS ESSENTIALS FOR STUDENTS OF THE PSALTER -- THE COLLECTIVE AUTHORSHIP OF THE PESHITTA NEW TESTAMENT -- EPHREM (ALLEGEDLY) ON HIMSELF: TWO SYRIAC POEMS -- EUKHITISM AND ANONYMITY IN THE ʻBOOK OF STEPSʼ -- MANA AND DUALISM IN THE MANDAEAN TRIPARTITE SYSTEM: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE ESOTERIC TEXT, DIWANQADAHA- RBA-D-DMUTH-KUŠṬA -- AUFFASSUNG UND DARSTELLUNG DER TRINITÄT IN DER IKONOGRAPHIE -- PATRIARCHAL BONE RELICS IN THE SYRIAN ORTHODOX DAYR-AL-ZA'FARAN IN MARDIN (TURKEY) -- PETER OF KALLINIKOS AND THE SYRIAC LANGUAGE IN THE LATE SIXTH CENTURY. FIRST NOTES -- MARCO SPURIO?: MARCO POLO ON THE CHURCH OF THE EAST IN CHINA -- DANIEL OF MARDIN: THE MAN AND HIS WORK -- SYNODALITY IN THE CHURCH OF THE EAST -- GLOSSARY OF MANDAEAN TERMS -- NAMES OF MANDAEAN CELESTIAL AND DARKWORLD BEINGS -- CONTRIBUTORS