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This book unveils the richness of Syriac literature. It explores the fashions and the routes of diffusion of this Christianity both Mesopotamian and Aramaic, anchored in Greek culture. Largely ignored by non-specialists, this form of Aramaic of North Mesopotamia written down at Édesse or Urhoy (nowadays Urfa in South-East Turkey) is become the religious and cultural language of all Aramaic-speaking Christians until today.Françoise Briquel Chatonnet, graduate from École Normale Supérieure, Doctor in History and director of Studies at CNRS.Muriel Debié, graduate from École Normale Supérieure, director of Studies at École pratique des hautes études (EPHE-PSL) where she holds the chair "Eastern Christianity". She is interested in writing history and the construction of memory in Late Antiquity, to the transmission of texts from manuscripts, multilingualism in the Middle East and the cultural and religious history of the "non-imperial" communities.