Iraq has been a centre of Syriac Christianity for almost two thousand years. This volume of collected papers from the Christianity in Iraq I-V Seminar Days (2004-2008) explores the Christian heritage of Iraq, highlighting the churches' innate ability to transcend barriers of language, culture, ethnicity and religion.

Christianity was firmly established in Iraq from the earliest times, and the Churches of Iraq were to play a major role in the development of Christian theology and spirituality for many centuries. By the seventh century evangelization from Iraq had brought Christianity to China, Central Asia and India. Yet few people in the West are aware of Christianity's vibrant past in this region, or of the fact that Christianity has continued to be a significant cultural and religious presence in Iraq right up to the present day. The story of the Churches of Iraq, their interaction with each other and their varied fortunes under successive Parthian, Sassanid, Arab, Mongol and Ottoman rule, is told here with consummate skill. Suha Rassam guides the reader seemingly effortlessly through complex issues of doctrinal dispute and ecclesiastical politics. She helps us explore the ancient heritage of these Churches, and the major contribution they have made to the intellectual development of the region and the wider world. Suha Rassam's book comes to fill a large vacuum in the knowledge of those in the West, many of whom are still not aware of the fact that from ancient times Christianity was firmly rooted in Iraq and the rest of the territory now seen as the 'Arab Middle East'. Archbishop Mikhael Al Jamil, Patriarchal Vicar of the Syrian Catholic Church of Antioch to the Holy See and Vicar Apostolic for Europe Dr Suha Rassam has written a work of remarkable scholarship. But is is also a vivid portrayal of an extraordinary story of conflict, persecution and, for fifty years in the twentieth century, of hope, harmony and prosperity for the Christian community in Iraq. It would be a tragedy if that Christian community were now extinguished. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster Gives to the general interested public a comprehensive and informed insight into two thousand years of Christianity in Iraq. Dr Erica Hunter, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University

This book examines the cultural and political history of the Church of the East, the main Christian church in Iraq and Iran. Philip Wood uses medieval Arabic sources to examine history-writing by Christians in the fifth to ninth centuries AD.

The third edition of this essential guide to the story of the Christians of Iraq from the time of the Apostles to the present day. The Churches of Iraq were to play a major role in the development of Christian theology and spirituality for many centuries, and evangelized China, Central Asia and India. Today a vibrant community faces extinction.

This book is primarily about the end of the age, not the end of the world, for it will stand for more than a thousand years more, but as to the beginning of time as we know it statring with father Adam and Mother Eve. Enoch and Noah from the old world before it was destroyed by water, then Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Ezekiel, Elijah, Amos, Jeremiah, John The Baptist, and David who is to be king over them, along with many of our more recent prophets, like Billy Sunday, Billy Graham, and all the original deciples of Jesus, and Paul who wrote many books of the New Testament, along ( with and part of) the ones marked in 7 Th. Chapter of Revelations consisting of 144,000 or 12,000 thousand from each tribe of Israel, with the exceptiion of the tribe of DAN being replaced by MANASSES, which I have stated many times as being one of the very special one. A far different world than we live in now, for the new world as we might call it, will be ruled by Spirit beings which had been on the earth before and being the resurected Saints that have been long gone from the earth, I believe Manasses is United States of America, and can prove it, this is one of the twins of Joseph who received the Birthright the other being EPHRIAM which is Great Brittain, who receives the Joseph share. Really a double portion for Joseph Jacobs favorite son who received the BIRTHRIGHT. Gen. Ch. 48 ITS IN THE BOOK ALSO.. IRAQ is the second most talked about book in the Bible, after Israel, The Garden of Eden was in Iraq, Babylon was in Iraq, Daniel was in the Lions den in Iraq, The Hebrew Children was in the firey furnace in Iraq, Nebuchadnezzar kingdom was in Iraq, Davids Throne Hidden in Iraq, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Jonah, Abraham all were in Iraq, Most of the early wars were faught in Iraq, thats why Iraq is so important in History. And in the end of the Age will be the most Important country in History. Most all of Jesuses Apostles are buried in England including Peter, Paul, John, and many others. In a cemetary called St. Albans found in Greek History, Greek and Latin Ecclesiasticae Historiae of Nicephorus Callistus. And Bede''''s Ecclesiastical History Book 111 Chapter 29. My wife and I have been to the cemetary. The Babylonian Cult that turmed into the largest denominational church in the world, how it came about and the complete story of how the Christian religion that got tangled up in it through a fallen member of the christian religion named Bishop Damasus, combinding the two into one, all adopted by the Roman Empire as their State Religion. The emperors were head of the church including the Cesars. Then the Great White Throne Judgement that ends it all, after the thousand year reign by the Saints, when the judgement of everyone that has ever lived, whether saint or sinner, the righteous to everlasting life in a new Heaven, and a new City Jerusalem coming down out of Heaven, Christ bride, where we will live forever, and the ungodly will be burned up as though they had never ever existed, with the earth, as it tells us in 2nd Peter Chapter 3 verses 12 and 13 and all sinners burned up in Malachi Chapter four (4) it say they will become ashes under your feet. The New Heaven and the new earth where no sin can enter into it, so Satan and his Imps becomes wanderers no one to deceive, no home throughout eternity.