Contributors Introduction: The Third Lung Robert A. Kitchen Part 1: Going Where We Should Have Gone Ephrem and the Mariological Motif of Conceptio per Aurem Kathleen E. McVey Seeking the Women of Ancient Syriac Christianity: Strategies of Method and Remembrance Susan Ashbrook Harvey Teach Your Children Well: Martyrs, Monks, and Mothers in Severus of Antioch Christine Shepardson The Ladder of Prayer, the Ship of Stirrings, and the Exodus from Egypt Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony Stuck between Voice and Silence: Ephrem and the Rabbis on Prayer Shraga Bick Part 2: Digging Deeper The Church's "Third Lung": Ancient Voices from the Syriac Orient That Speak to Today's Western Society Craig E. Morrison Peshitta Parables as Oral Performance Terry C. Falla Severus of Antioch on Ancient Church Customs: The Significance of Cyprian's Letters as Quoted by Severus and Oriental Canonical Collections Alberto Camplani Theodicy in the Letter of Mara Bar Serapion: Connections with Philosophical (Stoic) Accounts of Divine Retribution Ilaria L.E. Ramelli A Monk and a Fish by the River of Babylon: An Unpublished Edifying Tale Sergey Minov Notes on Syriac Learning in South India in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity István Perczel with a contribution by Radu Mustaa Part 3: Going Where We Have Not Been Bringing the Syriac Climacus to the Twenty-First Century Jeff W. Childers Towards a Syriac Semantic Web from the Perspective of 2020 George A.

Kiraz Dialogue Elements in Late Syriac Poetry: The Ways of Transformation Anton Pritula Syriac Apocalypticism and the Rise of Islam Stephen J. Shoemaker Christianity in Iraq and the Issue of Chaldean Identity Herman G.B. Teule Who Says? A Social History of Syriac Use in the Medieval Islamic Period Thomas A. Carlson Sergius Baira and a Syriac "Story of Muammad" Muriel Debié Index of Places Index of Authors and Texts Index of Bible Passages General Index.