Missionary Stories and the Formation of the Syriac Churches
- Berkeley, Los Angeles University of California Press 2015
- 209p
- Transformation of the Classical Heritage - 55 .
includes index and biblioraphy
St. Thoms, Missionary apostle to India .........17 The teaching of Addai: Founding a Christian City ...........36 Mari as apostle to the Church of Persia ............56 JOhn of Ephesus as Hagiographer and MIssionary ..........72 Legends of Simeon of Beth arsham, Missionary to Persia ..........80 Hagiographical Portraits of Jacob Baradaeus ..............96 Ahudemmeh among the Arabs ......................110
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Syriac Christian Saints Missionaries Middle East Christian Hagiography