... This fascinating legend describes that the ruler of Edessa in Mesopotamia wrote to Jesus asking a cure for his ...
Tópico(s): Pediatric health and respiratory diseases
2008 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | JCR Journal of Clinical Rheumatology
Tópico(s): Islamic Studies and History
2004 - SAGE Publishing | The American Surgeon
Abstract Tradition attributes the evangelization of Mesopotamia to St Thomas and to an apostle called Addai as early as the first century AD. Christianity spread early in Iraq from the major centre of Edessa (today Urfa in south-east Turkey) in its Syriac linguistic and cultural form. Christianity in Iraq represents a direct line of continuity ...
Tópico(s): Islamic Studies and History
2004 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church
Guy MacLean Rogers, Fergus Millar,
... 5. The Nomadic Presence 12. The Euphrates and Mesopotamia 12.1. Geography, Culture and Language 12.2. Dura-Europos in the Parthian Period 12.3. The Middle Euphrates and the Coming of Rome 12.4. Roman Dura-Europos 12.5. Edessa as a Kingdom and Roman Colony until the ...
Tópico(s): Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
1995 - Oxford University Press | The American Historical Review
... this article: Amir Harrak The Ancient Name of Edessa, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 51, no.33 ( ... doi.org/10.1086/371928 J. J. Finkelstein Mesopotamia, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 21, no.22 ( ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and Historical Studies
1953 - University of Chicago | Journal of Cuneiform Studies
... merchants who bring the Christian message from upper Mesopotamia to the northern shores of the Persian Gulf after they are evangelized in Edessa by another apostle, Judas Thaddeus. While such hagiographical ... once it became clear that a role in Mesopotamia made little sense in light of the various Addai (Thaddeus) narratives about the conversion of Edessa. If whether Thomas went to Parthia or India ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and Historical Studies
2019 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Journal of early Christian studies
Contents: Syriac Christianity: Jews and Christians at Edessa Syrian Christianity and Judaism Apocryphal literature in the cultural milieu of OsrhoAne Taufe und Liecht: Tatian, EbionAerevangelium und Thomasakten Early forms of Antiochene ... Islamic period Christians, Jews and Muslims in northern Mesopotamia in early Islamic times Addenda Index.
Tópico(s): Biblical Studies and Interpretation
1995 - Brill | Vigiliae Christianae
... Syriac Orthodox tradition and lived probably in Northern Mesopotamia. He wrote in Syriac, the Aramaic dialect of the ancient city of Edessa (today’s Şanlıurfa in southeastern Turkey). At first, ...
Tópico(s): Byzantine Studies and History
2022 - | Mediaevistik
... near here passed the movements between Palestine and Mesopotamia associated with Abraham, near here the Assyrians made their last stand after their capital fell in 610 B.C., and near here Crassus ill-advised attempt to press eastwards came to an end. The Seleucids intended the site to replace Harran as the fortress to dominate the area: indeed, the name Edessa reflects that of the Macedonian capital as well ...
Tópico(s): Historical and Linguistic Studies
1981 - University of Toronto Press | Florilegium
... ruling in the small kingdom of Osrhoene in Mesopotamia from ca. AD 165/166–177, raise a ...
Tópico(s): Historical and Linguistic Studies
2021 - Universitätsverlag C. Winter | Gymnasium
Ramazan Bozkurttan, Mehmet Şan,
... interactions of the Partho-Roman period in northern Mesopotamia. The study investigates the strong links between the reliefs and Parthian and Mesopotamian artistic traditions and focuses on the iconographic elements that characterise this period, such as clothing, postures, and weapons. The analyses indicate that the Begani reliefs have common features with sculptural works from prominent artistic centres such as Edessa, Hatra and Palmyra, pointing to a broader cultural ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and Historical Studies
2024 - Ankara University | Anadolu (Anatolia)
... sources describing the School of the Persians in Edessa, the Roman precursor of the School of Nisibis. ...
Tópico(s): Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
2008 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Journal of early Christian studies
... noteworthy papers. William Adler’s “The Kingdom of Edessa and the Creation of a Christian Aristocracy” studies the third-century Eastern Christians Bardaisan of Edessa and Julius Africanus, who illustrate the book’s ... pluralism and service to pagan royalty, first in Edessa and then in Rome. Natalie B. Dohrmann’s “ ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and Historical Studies
2014 - The Catholic University of America Press | The Catholic historical review
... identity and Roman identity in late antique Syria-Mesopotamia have emerged as topics of increasing interest. In concentrating on ethnicity, however, studies of specifically local affiliations have generally left unexamined the other modes of group identification which may have been equally or more salient. This essay fills that gap by excavating non-ethnic means of constructing local and regional identity in three Syriac texts written in and about Edessa in the pivotal century around 500 CE: the ...
Tópico(s): Biblical Studies and Interpretation
2021 - University of California Press | Studies in Late Antiquity
... the reign of Zeno on the closure in Edessa of the ‘school of the Persians’, with which ...
Tópico(s): Biblical Studies and Interpretation
2007 - Oxford University Press | The Journal of Theological Studies
Sr. Maria Theotokos Adams Ssvm,
... readers with lesser-known authors like Jacob of Edessa, Dionysius of Tel-Maḥre, Michael the Syrian, as ... centuries across the Eastern Mediterranean and deep into Mesopotamia. Hollerich's work may upturn some assumptions, while ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and Historical Studies
2021 - The Catholic University of America Press | The Catholic historical review
... Books citing both a canon of Jacob of Edessa (Ý708) and Naomi Wolf’s The [End Page ...
Tópico(s): Historical and Architectural Studies
1996 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Journal of early Christian studies
... Maronite Chronicle, 5. the Chronicle of Jacob of Edessa, 6. a Chronicle of Disasters, 7. the Chronicle ...
Tópico(s): Eurasian Exchange Networks
1995 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Journal of early Christian studies
... the souls of the marginalized Nicene Christians in Edessa? The development of boundaries between the Church and ...
Tópico(s): Historical and Linguistic Studies
2009 - The Catholic University of America Press | The Catholic historical review