The Books of the Bible are listed differently in the canons of Judaism and the Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, Slavonic Orthodox, Coptic, Georgian Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, Syriac, Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox churches, although there is substantial overlap.

The Oriental Orthodox communion comprises six groups: Syriac Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Ethiopian Orthodox, Eritrean Orthodox, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church ( India ) and Armenian Apostolic churches.

Although this space was discovered recently, and contains no identifying marks, many Christians believe it to be the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea in which the Syriac Orthodox celebrate their Liturgy on Sundays.

In the 19th century, the Coptic Orthodox, the Ethiopian Orthodox and the Syriac Orthodox acquired lesser responsibilities, which include shrines and other structures within and around the building.

He is especially beloved in the Syriac Orthodox Church.

Ephrem is popularly credited as the founder of the School of Nisibis, which in later centuries was the centre of learning of the Syriac Orthodox Church.

** Mar Abhai ( Syriac Orthodox Church )

** Abhai ( Syriac Orthodox Church )

Jonah's mission to the Ninevites is commemorates by the Fast of Nineveh in Syriac and Oriental Orthodox Churches.

** Syriac Orthodox Church

** Abhai ( Syriac Orthodox Church )

** Aaron the Illustrious ( Syriac Orthodox Church )

** Abhai of Hach ( Syriac Orthodox Church )

** Aaron the Illustrious ( Syriac Orthodox Church )

** Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions ( Syriac Orthodox Church )

It was known as Asuristan during this period, and became a main centre of the Church of the East ( now the Assyrian Church of the East ), with a flourishing Syriac ( Assyrian ) Christian culture which exists there to this day.

In Syriac Church usage, a consecrated wooden block called a thabilitho is kept for the same reasons.

Samuel Lee, the editor ( 1842 ) and translator ( 1843 ) of the Syriac Theophania thought that the work must have been written " after the general peace restored to the Church by Constantine, and before either the ' Praeparatio ,' or the ' Demonstratio Evengelica ,' was written.

This book was quoted directly, and expanded on by Mani, becoming one of the original six Syriac writings of the Manichaean Church.

Assyrians of the Ancient Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Catholic Church, and Assyrian Church of the East observe a fast called Ba ' uta d-Ninwe or Bo ' utho d-Ninwe ( ܒܥܘܬܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ ) which means Nineveh's Wish.

He is celebrated on February 28 in the Syriac and Malankara Churches, and with the other Minor prophets in the Calendar of saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on July 31.

The Early Christian Church used the Greek texts since Greek was a lingua franca of the Roman Empire at the time, and the language of the Greco-Roman Church ( Aramaic was the language of Syriac Christianity, which used the Targums ).

Among early centers of Christianity a Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible was used by Greek speakers ( Aramaic Targums were used by Aramaic speakers such as the Syriac Orthodox Church ).

An Aramaic Bible is also used in the Syriac Church ( see Peshitta ).

Today Western Christianity follows the Syriac churches in keeping his feast on 17 October.

Composed in Syriac, it was incomprehensible to the Quraysh until a Jew translated it for them as follows: " I am Allah, the Lord of Bakka.

In Syriac the Peshitta follows the Hebrew, except that 1 Chron.

They are one of the Eastern Catholic Churches following the Antiochene rite, the Syriac tradition of Antioch, along with the Maronites and Syro-Malankara Christians.

Ignatius Zakka I is the Supreme Head of the Syriac Orthodox Church, which is part of the Oriental Orthodox communion and uses the Antiochene liturgy.

The members of the Maronite Church are a part of the Syriac people ; though they have, over time, developed a distinctive Maronite character, this has not obscured their Antiochene and Syriac origin.

The West Syrian Rite, used in Syria by the Syriac Orthodox ( Jacobites ) and Catholic Syrians is in its origin simply the old rite of Antioch in the Syriac language.

* Liturgy of the Hours according to the rite of the Syriac Orthodox Church

Approximately 7, 650, 000 belong to the fourteen Catholic Churches of Byzantine Rite, whether they attend the Divine Liturgy in that liturgical rite or in another, and 8, 300, 000 belong to other Eastern Catholic Churches of Armenian, Coptic and Syriac traditions.

The West Syrian rite was associated with the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, also known as the Monophysite or Jacobite Church.

He wrote a doctoral thesis in ethnomusicology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2005 on Syriac ( Aramaic ) chant traditions in South India, studying on the one hand the contemporary practice of model melodies of the East-Syriac / Chaldean rite of the Syro-Malabar Church, and, on the other hand, the oktoechos of the West Syriac Rite of the Oriental Orthodox Churches of South India.

No Christian tradition, other than some Syriac ones, has ever adopted a harmonized Gospel text for use in its liturgy.

Following the arrival of the Bishop Gregorios Abdul Jaleel of Jerusalem, Archdeacon Thomas forged a relationship with the Syriac Orthodox Church and gradually adopted West Syrian liturgy and practices.

Not only that, he consecrated his successor Mar Thoma VI without any assistance from foreign bishops, thus severing all allegiance to foreign bishops. Until Mar Thoma V, Malankara Church followed almost entirely East Syriac language, liturgy and practices.

Today the Church conducts liturgy in West Syriac, Malayalam, Hindi, and English.

The Indian government designates members of the community as " Syrian Christians ", a term originating with the Dutch colonial authority distinguishing the Saint Thomas Christians, who used Syriac as the liturgical language, from newly evangelized Christians following Latin liturgy.

The church employs the Syriac dialect of the Aramaic language in its liturgy, the East Syrian Rite, which includes three anaphoras, attributed to Saints Addai and Mari, Theodore of Mopsuestia and Nestorius.

A Syriac liturgy ascribed to " Mar Teodorus the Interpreter " is still used by the Assyrian Christians for a third of the year, from Advent to Palm Sunday.

Again, the Holy Scriptures and the liturgy, being written in Syriac, were, to a large extent, unintelligible to the faithful.

Forming the historical basis of the Liturgy of Antioch, it is still the principal liturgy of the Syriac Orthodox Church.

His brother was Archbishop Giuseppe Simone Assemani whom he helped with his writings ; besides assisting his brother he also studied in Rome and was appointed by the Pope, firstly as the Professor of Syriac at the Sapienza and later as the Professor of liturgy by Pope Benedict XIV.

He also made many contributions to Syriac liturgy, both original and as translations from Greek ( Wright, Short History, p. 145 seq.

The Syriac liturgy referred to as the Divine Liturgy of Addai and Mari, originated around the year 200 A. D. and is used by the Assyrian Church of the East, that claims a connection to the saint.

The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts was once used in the West Syrian Rite, the liturgy of the Syriac Orthodox Church, but has fallen into disuse in most of the Syriac Orthodox communion.

Syriac sacral music is music in the Syriac language as used in the liturgy of Syriac Christianity.

Examples of a few melodies from the Chaldean liturgy of the Syro-Malabar Church can be found in the work Qambel Maran: Syriac Chants from South India by Joseph J. Palackal.

Abel Periyappuram, the founder of the Kalabhavan and the key in the transition of the Syro-Malabar liturgy from Syriac ( Aramaic ) to Malayalam.