Joseph Amar

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Joseph Amar is professor emeritus of Syriac, Arabic, and Eastern Christianity at the University of Notre Dame. He is currently at work on a biography of Ephrem the Syrian. He is a priest in the Syriac Maronite Church.

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Preeminent?

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St. Ephrem’s Lament

The territory along the Syrian-Turkish border is the ancestral homeland of an ancient tradition of Aramaic-speaking Christianity. They’ve been betrayed before.
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