The Legend of Mar Qardagh - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Legend of Mar Qardagh write by Joel Walker. This book was released on 2006-04-24. The Legend of Mar Qardagh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia
Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia write by Kyle Smith. This book was released on 2019-11-12. Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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?
An Age of Saints? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Age of Saints? write by . This book was released on 2013-02-06. An Age of Saints? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The papers collected in this volume explore the strategies through which Christian authorities throughout the early medieval world both established and expressed their social position, while at the same time drawing attention to the moments when those same processes were resisted and challenged. Where previous studies of Christianisation have for the most part approached the issue of dissent through the continued existence of paganism and the various Christian heresies, this volume suggests that the experience of doubt towards, and articulation of resistance to, the claims of Christian leaders extended far outside the circles of pagan intellectuals and dissident theologians. The result is a view of Christianisation as far more piecemeal, complex and incomplete than has often been acknowledged. Contributors include Peter Turner, Peter Kritzinger, Collin Garbarino, Philip Wood, Ralph Lee, Richard Payne, Mike Humphreys, Giorgia Vocino, and Gerda Heydemann.
The Legend of Mar Qardagh
The Legend of Mar Qardagh - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Legend of Mar Qardagh write by . This book was released on 2006. The Legend of Mar Qardagh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem write by Isaac Kalimi. This book was released on 2014-01-30. Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
