Author: Fr Andrew Younan
Assyro-Chaldean Identity: An Invitation
The contentious issue of the ethnic identity of the indigenous, Aramaic-speaking people of Mesopotamia can lead not only to debate but community division and erasure, and often becomes the instrument of political propaganda and emotional outrage more than calm discussion. Nuance is left behind in favor of oversimplified pandering to one opinion or another, and […]
Narsai on Adam & Eve
Here’s a talk I did for the Oxford Interfaith Forum this week: It goes into more detail than my lecture on the same memra in my Narsai Lecture Series, and for the first time in my life I made a powerpoint. Special thanks especially to the very kind Sebastian Brock.
Narsai Lectures
After the release of my book, I decided to do a series of lectures at St. Peter’s going through it a chapter/memra at a time. The first two lectures work through the Introduction, discussing Narsai’s biography and giving a summary of his theology. The next twelve lectures will be on each chapter of the book. […]