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== Kitab Suci ==
{{main|Pesyita}}
[[Pesyita]], yang sudah sedikit direvisi dan ditambahi kitab-kitab yang semula tidak termasuk di dalamnya, adalah [[Syriac versions of the Bible|Alkitab Suryani]] standar bagi Gereja-Gereja bertradisi Suryani, yaitu [[Gereja Ortodoks Suriah|Gereja Ortodoks Suryani]], [[Gereja Katolik Suriah|Gereja Katolik Suryani]], [[Gereja Asiria Timur|Gereja Asyur di Timur]], [[Gereja Purba di Timur]], [[Gereja Katolik Kaldea]], [[Gereja Maronit]], [[Gereja Suryani Ortodoks Malangkara]], [[Gereja Katolik Siro-Malabar|Gereja Katolik Suryani Malabar]], dan [[Gereja Katolik Siro-Malankara|Gereja Katolik Suryani Malangkara]].<!--
[[Perjanjian Lama]] Pesyita diterjemahkan dari [[bahasa Ibrani]], althoughkendati thetarikh datemaupun andtempat circumstancespenerjemahannya oftidak thisbetul-betul are not entirely clearjelas. ThePara translatorspenerjemahnya maymungkin haveadalah been Syriacorang-speakingorang JewsYahudi orpenutur earlybahasa JewishSuryani convertsatau toorang-orang Christianity.Yahudi Thepertama translationyang maymemeluk haveagama beenKristen. doneMungkin separatelyteks fordemi differentteks textsditerjemahkan terpisah-pisah, anddan thekemungkinan wholebesar workpenerjemahkan wasdituntaskan probablysepenuhnya donepada byabad the second centuryke-2. Most of theRata-rata [[Biblical apocrypha|deuterocanonicalkitab books of thedeuterokanonika OldPerjanjian TestamentLama]] arememiliki foundterjemahan in the SyriacSuryaninya, anddan thekitab [[Wisdom ofKebijaksanaan SirachSirakh]] isdiyakini heldditerjemahkan to have been translated from thedari [[Hebrewbahasa Ibrani]], andbukan not from thedari [[SeptuagintSeptuaginta]].<ref>[http://www.bible-researcher.com/syriac-isbe.html ''Syriac Versions of the Bible by'', Thomas Nicol]</ref>
[[Perjanjian Baru]] Pesyita, yang mula-mula tidak mencakup kitab-kitab yang diragukan keasliannya ([[2 Petrus]], [[2 Yohanes]], [[3 Yohanes]], [[Surat Yudas]], [[Kitab Wahyu|Wahyu]]), sudah menjadi bentuk Pesyita standar pada awal abad ke-5.
The [[New Testament]] of the Peshitta, which originally excluded certain disputed books ([[Second Epistle of Peter]], [[Second Epistle of John]], [[Third Epistle of John]], [[Epistle of Jude]], [[Book of Revelation]]), had become the standard by the early 5th century.
== IconographyIkonografi ==
ItPada wasabad oftenke-19, saidkerap indigaungkan thewacana 19thbahwa centuryGereja thatdi theTimur Churchmenentang ofsegala themacam Eastcitra was opposed to religious images of any kindreligius.<!-- The cult of the image was never as strong in the [[Syriac Churches]] as it was in the [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Byzantine Church]], but they were indeed present in the tradition of the Church of the East.<ref name=ICE>{{cite journal |last=Parry |first=Ken |date=1996 |title=Images in the Church of the East: The Evidence from Central Asia and China |url=https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man-scw:1m2404&datastreamId=POST-PEER-REVIEW-PUBLISHERS-DOCUMENT.PDF |journal=Bulletin of the John Rylands Library |volume=78 |issue=3 |pages=143–162 |access-date=23 July 2018|doi=10.7227/BJRL.78.3.11 }}</ref> {{cn-span|Opposition to religious images eventually became the norm due to the [[rise of Islam]] in the region, which forbade{{dubious|date=March 2021}} any type of depictions of Saints and [[biblical prophets]].|date=March 2021}}{{dubious|date=March 2021}} As such, the Church was forced to get rid of icons.<ref name="Nestorian">{{cite web|url=http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=21-05-027-f|title=The Shadow of Nestorius}}</ref>{{better source|date=March 2021}}
There is both literary and archaeological evidence for the presence of images in the church. Writing in 1248 from [[Samarkand]], an [[Armenia|Armenian]] official records visiting a local church and seeing an image of Christ and the Magi. John of Cora ({{lang|it|Giovanni di Cori|italic=no}}), Latin bishop of [[Sultaniya]] in Persia, writing about 1330 of the East Syrians in [[Khanbaliq]] says that they had ‘very beautiful and orderly churches with crosses and images in honour of God and of the saints’.<ref name=ICE /> Apart from the references, there is a [[painting of a Nestorian Christian figure]] which was discovered by [[Aurel Stein]] at the Library Cave of the [[Mo-kao Caves]] in 1908, which is probably an image of Christ.
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