Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia

[...]it is more likely that the use of indigenous terminology and iconography indicates an effort to present the Christian message in terms intelligible to those around them, rather than using foreign terminology. [...]the testimony of the Syriac gravestone corpus from Semirechye and the Christian documents from Turfan (in Syriac, Sogdian and Turkic) suggest that the Central Asian Christians during the Tang and Mongol eras followed the standard beliefs and practices of the Church of the East. [...]the work demonstrates the need for an authoritative edition of all the Syriac gravestone inscriptions from Inner Mongolia, as well as more in-depth study of the gravestone iconography and decorations. [...]the volume is a must have for anyone concerned with either Syriac funerary material or the history of Christianity in Central Asia. 1 SundermannWerner, (1995).