Books by Hubert Kaufhold

For more than a century Oriens Christianus has been one of the leading international periodicals in the domain of Eastern Christian Studies. This long-lived periodical is a tool for tracing the development of Eastern Christian studies in general and the history of Oriental scholarship in Germany in particular.

For more than a century Oriens Christianus has been one of the leading international periodicals in the domain of Eastern Christian Studies. This long-lived periodical is a tool for tracing the development of Eastern Christian studies in general and the history of Oriental scholarship in Germany in particular.

The Christian era in Syriac and Arabic sources does not always correspond with the western calculations. The use of the Christian era became more common from the 16th century, due to the closer contacts between the Oriental and the Latin churches.