The Legend Of Mar Qardagh
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The Legend Of Mar Qardagh
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Author : Joel Walker
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006-04-24
The Legend Of Mar Qardagh written by Joel Walker and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-24 with History categories.
This pioneering study uses an early seventh-century Christian martyr legend to elucidate the culture and society of late antique Iraq. Translated from Syriac into English here for the first time, the legend of Mar Qardagh introduces a hero of epic proportions whose characteristics confound simple classification. During the several stages of his career, Mar Qardagh hunts like a Persian King, argues like a Greek philosopher, and renounces his Zoroastrian family to live with monks high in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan. Drawing on both literary and artistic sources, Joel Walker explores the convergence of these diverse themes in the Christian culture of the Sasanian Empire (224-642). Taking the Qardagh legend as its foundation, his study guides readers through the rich and complex world of late antique Iraq.
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Release Date : 2006
The Legend Of Mar Qardagh written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Christian martyrs categories.
A translation from the Syriac of an early seventh-century Christian martyr legend followed by a pioneering cultural-historical study of late antique Iraq. The legend is translated in this edition for the first time. Mar Qardagh was Sasanian viceroy of northern Iraq from 309-375, a time shortly before the Islamic conquest of that region.
Sennacherib At The Gates Of Jerusalem
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Author : Isaac Kalimi
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2014-01-30
Sennacherib At The Gates Of Jerusalem written by Isaac Kalimi and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-30 with History categories.
Sennacherib and his ill-fated siege of Jerusalem fascinated the ancient world. Twelve scholars—in Hebrew Bible, Assyriology, archaeology, Egyptology, Classics, Aramaic, Rabbinic and Christian literatures—examine how and why the Sennacherib story was told and re-told in more than a dozen cultures for over a thousand years. From Akkadian to Arabic, stories and legends about Sennacherib became the first vernacular tales of the imperial world. These essays address outstanding historical issues of the campaign and the sources, and press on to expose the stories’ theological and cultural roles in inner-cultural dialogues, ethnic origin stories, and morality tales. This book is the first of its kind for readers seeking out historical and historiographic bridges between the ancient and late antique worlds. "This work will undoubtedly serve as an important resource on the Assyrian attack on Jerusalem in 701..." Song-Mi Suzie Park, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Horizons in Biblical Theology
Constantine And The Captive Christians Of Persia
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Author : Kyle Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2019-11-12
Constantine And The Captive Christians Of Persia written by Kyle Smith and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-12 with Religion categories.
It is widely believed that the Emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity politicized religious allegiances, dividing the Christian Roman Empire from the Zoroastrian Sasanian Empire and leading to the persecution of Christians in Persia. This account, however, is based on Greek ecclesiastical histories and Syriac martyrdom narratives that date to centuries after the fact. In this groundbreaking study, Kyle Smith analyzes diverse Greek, Latin, and Syriac sources to show that there was not a single history of fourth-century Mesopotamia. By examining the conflicting hagiographical and historical evidence, Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia presents an evocative and evolving portrait of the first Christian emperor, uncovering how Syriac Christians manipulated the image of their western Christian counterparts to fashion their own political and religious identities during this century of radical change.
An Age Of Saints
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-02-06
An Age Of Saints written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-06 with History categories.
This volume focuses on the strategies through which secular and ecclesiastical authorities throughout the early medieval world shaped and exploited Christian culture in their own interests, and the simultaneous attempts of rivals and sceptics to resist that same process.
Sophene Gordyene And Adiabene
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Author : Michał Marciak
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-07-31
Sophene Gordyene And Adiabene written by Michał Marciak and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-31 with History categories.
The monograph Sophene, Gordyene, and Adiabene by M. Marciak offers the first-ever comprehensive study of the history and culture of these three ancient countries located in Northern Mesopotamia from the third century BCE to the seventh century CE.
Assyrians In Modern Iraq
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Author : Alda Benjamen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-03
Assyrians In Modern Iraq written by Alda Benjamen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-03 with History categories.
Examines the role of minorities and identity in twentieth-century Iraqi political and cultural history through the relationship between the state and the Assyrians.
Invitation To Syriac Christianity
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Author : Michael Philip Penn
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-02-22
Invitation To Syriac Christianity written by Michael Philip Penn and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-22 with History categories.
Introduction -- Origin stories -- Poetry -- Doctrine and disputation -- Liturgy -- Asceticism -- Mysticism and prayer -- Biblical interpretation -- Hagiography -- Books, knowledge, and translation -- Judaism -- Islam -- Religions of the Silk Road -- Appendix 1 : translations and editions -- Appendix 2 : biographies of named authors -- Appendix 3 : glossary.
The Garb Of Being
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Author : Georgia Frank
language : en
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-05
The Garb Of Being written by Georgia Frank and has been published by Fordham University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-05 with Religion categories.
This collection explores how the body became a touchstone for late antique religious practice and imagination. When we read the stories and testimonies of late ancient Christians, what different types of bodies stand before us? How do we understand the range of bodily experiences—solitary and social, private and public—that clothed ancient Christians? How can bodily experience help us explore matters of gender, religious identity, class, and ethnicity? The Garb of Being investigates these questions through stories from the Eastern Christian world of antiquity: monks and martyrs, families and congregations, and textual bodies. Contributors include S. Abrams Rebillard, T. Arentzen, S. P. Brock, R. S. Falcasantos , C. M. Furey, S. H. Griffith, R. Krawiec, B. McNary-Zak, J.-N. Mellon Saint-Laurent, C. T. Schroeder, A. P. Urbano, F. M. Young
Babylonian Jews And Sasanian Imperialism In Late Antiquity
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Author : Simcha Gross
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-02-29
Babylonian Jews And Sasanian Imperialism In Late Antiquity written by Simcha Gross and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-29 with Religion categories.
From the image offered by the Babylonian Talmud, Jewish elites were deeply embedded within the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE). The Talmud is replete with stories and discussions that feature Sasanian kings, Zoroastrian magi, fire temples, imperial administrators, Sasanian laws, Persian customs, and more quotidian details of Jewish life. Yet, in the scholarly literature on the Babylonian Talmud and the Jews of Babylonia , the Sasanian Empire has served as a backdrop to a decidedly parochial Jewish story, having little if any direct impact on Babylonian Jewish life and especially the rabbis. Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity advances a radically different understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and Sasanian rule. Building upon recent scholarship, Simcha Gross portrays a more immanent model of Sasanian rule, within and against which Jews invariably positioned and defined themselves. Babylonian Jews realized their traditions, teachings, and social position within the political, social, religious, and cultural conditions generated by Sasanian rule.