Li Tang and Dietmar W. Winkler (eds.), Silk Road Traces: Studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia (orentalia – patristica – occumenica, Band 21), Wien u.a.: LIT Verlag, 2022.

This volume includes cutting-edge research on the spread of Syrian Christianity along the Silk Road from the 6th to the 14th century. Recent archaeological discoveries and excavations of ancient and medieval Christian sites in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and China shed new light on Christian communities in Central Asia, China and Mongolia. Scholars from such fields as archaeology, manuscript studies, history and theology have contributed, offering new insights into the influence of Syriac Christianity along the Silk Roads.