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Authored Books

Hunter, Erica C D and Coakley, James F. (2017) A Syriac service-book from Turfan. Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin MS MIK III 45. Turnhout: Brepols. (Berliner Turfantexte XXXIX)

Hunter, Erica C D and Dickens, Mark (2014) Syriac Texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Syrische Handschriften)

Jefferson, Rebecca and Hunter, Erica C D (2004) Published Material from the Cambridge Genizah Collections: A Bibliography 1980-1987. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge University Library Genizah Series v. 13)

Hunter, Erica C D, Lieu, S.N.C. and Clackson, Sarah (1998) Dictionary of Manichaean Texts. Vol. 1. Texts from the Roman Empire. Texts in Syriac, Greek, Coptic and Latin. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. (Ancient History Documentary Research Centre, Macquarie University)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Hunter, Erica C D, ed. (2009) The Christian Heritage of Iraq: collected papers from the Christianity in Iraq I-V Seminar Days. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. (Gorgias Eastern Christian Series 13)

Book Chapters

Hunter, Erica C D (2018) 'Changing demography. Christians in Iraq since 1991.' In: King, Daniel, (ed.), The Syriac World. Routledge, pp. 783-796. (Routledge Worlds)

Hunter, Erica C D (2018) 'Perspectives on Christianity in southern Iraq and the Gulf.' In: Brooke, George, (ed.), Near Eastern and Arabian Essays: Studies in Honour of John F. Healey. Oxford: Oxford University Press [on behalf of Manchester University Press], pp. 169-180. (Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement; 41)

Hunter, Erica C D (2017) 'Syriac Manuscripts from Turfan: Public Worship and Private Devotion.' In: Li, Tarsee and Dyer, Keith, (eds.), From Ancient Manuscripts to Modern Dictionaries: Select Studies in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, pp. 77-96. (Perspectives on Linguistics and Ancient Languages: 9)

Hunter, Erica C D (2016) 'Commemorating the Saints at Turfan.' In: Tang, Li and Winkler, Dietmar W., (eds.), Winds of Jingjiao. Studies in Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia. Vienna: Lit. Verlag, pp. 89-104. (orientalia - patristica - oecumenica; 9)

Hunter, Erica C D (2014) 'The Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East.' In: Leustean, Lucian N., (ed.), Eastern Christianity and Politics in the Twenty-First Century. London: Routledge, pp. 601-620.

Hunter, Erica C D (2014) 'The Syrian Orthodox Church.' In: Leustean, Lucian N., (ed.), Eastern Christianity and Politics in the Twenty-First Century. London: Routledge, pp. 542-562.

Hunter, Erica C D (2014) 'Coping in Kurdistan: the Christian diaspora.' In: Omarkhali, Khanna, (ed.), Religious Minorities in Kurdistan: Beyond the Mainstream. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 321-338. (Studies in Oriental Religions)

Hunter, Erica C D (2014) 'The Jewish Cemetery at Ja,: Judaeo-Persian Communities of Ghurid Afghanistan.' In: Scripts Beyond Borders. A Survey of Allographic Traditions in the Euro-Mediterranean World. Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters, pp. 511-526.

Hunter, Erica C D (2013) 'Comparative Perspectives on Sapta d-pisra d-ainia.' In: Voigt, R, (ed.), Durch Dein Wort ward jegliches Ding!" : 2. Mandäistische und samaritanistische Tagung : zum Gedenken an Rudolf Macuch (1919-1993) = "Through Thy Word All Things Were Made!" : 2nd International Conference of Mandaic and Samaritan Studies. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 117-127.

Hunter, Erica C D (2013) 'Nebuchadnezzar's Dream in Daniel 2.' In: Baer, David and Gordon, Robert, (eds.), Leshon Limmudim : essays on the language and literature of the Hebrew Bible in honour of A.A. Macintosh. London: Bloomsbury (T & T Clark), pp. 227-235.

Hunter, Erica C D (2013) 'SyrHT 140: Commemorating Mar Cyriacus and Julitta.' In: Fodor, P., (ed.), Modoque: Die Wurzeln der europaischen Kultur unde deren Rezeption im orient und Okzident. Festschrift fuer Miklos Maroth zum siebstigen Geburtstag. Budapest: Fortschungszentrum fuer Humanwissenschaften der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pp. 117-127.

Hunter, Erica C D (2013) 'Traversing Time and Location: A Prayer-Amulet to Mar Tamsis from Turfan.' In: Winkler, Dietmar W. and Tang, Li, (eds.), From the Oxus River to the Chinese Shores: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia. Salzburg: Lit. Verlag, pp. 23-41. (Orientalia-patristica-oecumenica v. 5)

Hunter, Erica C D and Horn, Cornelia (2012) 'Christianity in the Late Antique Near East.' In: Potts, Daniel, (ed.), A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley, pp. 1094-1112. (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)

Hunter, Erica C D (2012) 'Syriac, Sogdian and Old Uyghur Manuscripts from Bulayïq.' In: Academia Turfanica, (ed.), The History behind the Languages. Essays of the Turfan Forum on Old Languages of the Silk Road [語言背後的歷史—西域古典語言學高峰論壇論文集]. Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe 上海古籍出版社, pp. 79-93.

Hunter, Erica C D (2011) 'Syriac Sources and Manichaeaism. A Four Hundred Year Trajectory.' In: van den Berg, Jacob, Kotzé, Annemaré, Nicklas, Tobias and Scopello, Madeleine, (eds.), In Search of Truth. Augustine, Manichaeism and other Gnosticism. Studies for Johannes van Oort at Sixty. Leiden: Brill, pp. 291-300.

Savchenko, Alexei and Dickens, Mark (2009) 'Prester John’s Realm: New Light on Christianity between Merv and Turfan.' In: Hunter, Erica C D, (ed.), The Christian Heritage of Iraq. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, pp. 121-135. (Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies)

Dickens, Mark (2009) 'The Syriac Bible in Central Asia.' In: Hunter, Erica C D, (ed.), The Christian Heritage of Iraq. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, pp. 92-120. (Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies)

Hunter, Erica C D (2009) 'A Jewish Inscription from Jam, Afghanistan.' In: Sundermann, Werner, Hintze, Almut and de Blois, François, (eds.), Exegisti monumenta: Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 191-196. (Iranica, Band 17)

Hunter, Erica C D (2009) 'Magic and Medicine amongst the Christians of Kurdistan.' In: Hunter, Erica C D, (ed.), The Christian Heritage of Iraq: Collected Papers from the Christianity in Iraq I-V Seminar Days. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. (Gorgias Eastern Christian Series 13)

Hunter, Erica C D (2009) 'The Persian Contribution to Christianity in China: reflections in the Xian Fu Syriac inscriptions.' In: Winkler, Dietmar and Li, Tang, (eds.), Hidden Treasures and Intercultural Encounters: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in Central Asia and China. Berlin: Lit; London: Global, pp. 71-86. (Orientalia - patristica - oecumenica, 1)

Hunter, Erica C D (2008) 'The Christian Matrix of al-Hira.' In: Jullien, Christelle, (ed.), Les Controverses des Chretiens dans l’Iran Sassanide. Paris: Association pour l'Avancement des Études Iraniennes, pp. 41-56. (Cahiers Studia Iranica, 36)

Hunter, Erica C D (2008) 'The Language of Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the Early Islamic Era.' In: Voigt, Rainer, (ed.), 1CAnd Life is Victorious 1D. Mandaean and Samaritan Literatures. In Memory of Rudolf Macuch (1919-1993). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 117-126.

Hunter, Erica C D (2007) 'Interfaith Dialogues: The Church of the East and the Abbassids.' In: Vashalomidze, Sophia G. and Greisiger, Lutz, (eds.), Der Christliche Orient und seines Umwelt. Gesammelte Studien zu ehren Jurgen Tubach. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 289-302. (Studies in oriental religions, 56)

Hunter, Erica C D (2006) 'Christianity in Central Asia and the Near East.' In: Brown, Keith, (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 392-394.

Hunter, Erica C D (2006) 'Theodore bar Koni’s Historical and Cosmogonic passages on the Manichaeans.' In: de Blois, Francois and Sims-Williams, Nicholas, (eds.), Dictionary of Manichaean Texts. Vol.II. From Iraq and Iran (Texts in Syriac, Arabic, Persian and Zoroastrian Middle Persian). Leiden: Brepols. (Corpus fontium manichaeorum. Subsidia ; 2)

Hunter, Erica C D (2005) 'Theodore bar Koni and the Manichaeans.' In: van Tongerloo, Aloïs and Cirillo, Luigi, (eds.), Il manicheismo : nuove prospettive della ricerca : Quinto Congresso internazionale di studi sul Manicheismo, atti. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 167-178.

Hunter, Erica C D (2002) 'Converting Turkic Tribes.' In: Benjamin, C. and Lieu, S. N. C., (eds.), Silk Road Studies VI. Walls and Frontiers in Inner-Asian History. Brepols, pp. 183-195.

Hunter, Erica C D (2002) 'The Transmission of Greek Philosophy via the 'School of Edessa'.' In: Holmes, C. and Waring, J., (eds.), Literacy, Education and Manuscript Transmission in Byzantium and Beyond. Brill, pp. 225-39.

Hunter, Erica C D (2002) 'When Black Bronzes are Beautiful.' In: I Bronzi Antichi, Produzione e Technologia. Montagnac: Mergoil, pp. 655-660. (Monographies instrumentum)

Hunter, Erica C D (2000) 'The typology of incantation bowls: physical features and decorative aspects.' In: Catalogue of Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum, pp. 163-204.

Hunter, Erica C D (1999) 'Another Scroll Amulet from Kurdistan.' In: Reinink, GJ, (ed.), After Bardaisan. Studies on Continuity and Change in Syriac Christianity in Honour of Prof. Han J W Drijvers. Leuven: Peeters, pp. 161-172. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 89)

Hunter, Erica C D (1995) 'Combat and Conflict in Incantation Bowls: Studies on Two Aramaic Specimens from Nippur.' In: Studia Aramaica: New Sources and New Approaches. Oxford: OUP on behalf of Manchester University Press, pp. 61-77. (Journal of Semitic studies. Supplement ; 4.)

Hunter, Erica C D (1993) 'The Cult of Saints in Syria during the Fifth Century A.D.' In: Livingston, Elizabeth A., (ed.), Studia Patristica, XXV. Leuven: Peeters, pp. 308-312.

Journal Article

Hunter, Erica C D (2012) 'The Christian Library from Turfan: Syr HT 41-42-43 an early exemplar of the Ḥudrā.' Hugoye, 15 (1). pp. 15-67.

Hunter, Erica C D (2010) 'Hebrew-script tombstones from Jām, Afghanistan.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 61 (1). pp. 72-87.

Hunter, Erica C D (2010) 'Syriac Onomastica in the Xian Fu Inscriptions.' Parole de l'Orient, 35. pp. 357-369.

Hunter, Erica C D (2009) 'Men Only. Hebrew-script inscriptions from Jām, Afghanistan.' Buried History. Journal of the Australian Institute of Archaeology, 45. pp. 11-14.

Hunter, Erica C D (2009) 'Reconstructing Christianity in south-west Iraq: Reassessing Hira.' The Harp, XXIV. pp. 411-423.

Hunter, Erica C D (2004) 'Nippur and Aramaic Incantation Bowls.' Studia Orientalia, 99. pp. 69-82.

Hunter, Erica C D (2003) 'Review of Martin Palmer, "The Jesus Sutras: Rediscovering the lost religion of Taoist Christianity" Piatkus (London):2001.' Buddhist Studies Review, vol. 2. pp. 112-119.

Hunter, Erica C D (2002) 'Manipulating Incantation Texts: Excursions in Refrain A.' IRAQ, 64. pp. 259-273.

Hunter, Erica C D (2000) 'Two incantation bowls from Babylon.' IRAQ, 62. pp. 139-147.

Hunter, Erica C D (1998) 'Syriac Ostraca from Mesopotamia.' Orientalia Christiana Analecta, 1998. pp. 617-639.

Hunter, Erica C D (1998) 'Theodore bar Koni Liber Scholiorum XI Reconsidered.' Acta Orientalia Belgica; 11: Les Voyages dans les civilisations Orientales, 1998. pp. 143-154.

Hunter, Erica C D (1998) 'Who are the demons? The iconography of incantation bowls.' Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici sul Vicino Oriente antico, 15. pp. 95-115.

Hunter, Erica C D (1997) 'A Syriac Ostracon from Ctesiphon.' al-Rafidan, 18. pp. 361-367.

Hunter, Erica C D (1997) 'Two incantation bowls from the collection of the Iraq Museum.' Sumer, 49. pp. 107-122.

Hunter, Erica C D (1996) 'The Church of the East in Central Asia.' Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 78. pp. 129-142.

Hunter, Erica C D (1996) 'Incantation Bowls: A Mesopotamian Phenomenon.' Orientalia Nova Series, 65 (3). pp. 25-39.

Hunter, Erica C D (1996) 'Syriac Inscriptions from al Hira.' Oriens Christianus, 80. pp. 66-81.

Hunter, Erica C D (1996) 'Syriac Inscriptions from al Hira.' Oriens Christianus, 80. pp. 66-81.

Hunter, Erica C D (1995) 'Amulets and the Assyrians of Kurdistan.' Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society, IX (2). pp. 25-39.

Hunter, Erica C D (1995) 'Aramaic speaking communities of Sasanid Mesopotamia.' ARAM Periodical, 7 (2). pp. 319-335.

Hunter, Erica C D (1994) 'Two Mandaic Incantation Bowls from Nippur.' Baghdader Mitteilungen, 25. pp. 605-618.

Hunter, Erica C D (1993) 'A scroll amulet from Kurdistan.' ARAM, 5. pp. 243-254.

Hunter, Erica C D (1992) 'Syriac Christianity in Central Asia.' Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte, 44. pp. 362-368.

Hunter, Erica C D (1991) 'An Inscribed Reliquary from the Middle Euphrates.' Oriens Christianus, 75. pp. 112-123.

Hunter, Erica C D (1990) 'Genres of Syriac Amulets: A Study of Cambridge Ms. Syr 3086.' Orientalia Christiana Analecta (236). pp. 355-368.

Hunter, Erica C D (1990) 'Report and Catalogue of Inscribed Fragments: Ayn Shaiya and Dukakin Caves near Najaf, Iraq.' al-Rafidan, 10. pp. 89-108.

Hunter, Erica C D (1989) 'The Conversion of the Kerait to Christianity in A.D. 1009.' Zentralasiatische Studien, 22. pp. 140-163.

Hunter, Erica C D (1989) 'Syriac inscriptions from a Melkite monastery on the Middle Euphrates.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 52 (1). pp. 1-17.

Hunter, Erica C D (1988) 'Isaac of Nineveh, the Persian Mystic.' Iqbal Review: Journal of the Iqbal Academy of Pakistan, 29 (3). pp. 91-95.

Hunter, Erica C D (1987) 'Saints in Syriac anathemas: a form-critical analysis of role.' Journal of Semitic Studies, 32 (1). pp. 83-104.