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Mar Jacob of Sarug’s (d. 521) homily “On Edessa and Jerusalem” takes as its principal subject the legendary exchange of letters between King Abgar in Edessa and Jesus in Jerusalem. In this poem-homily Jacob uses his profound skills as a poet and wordsmith to make the case that “the Peoples,” represented by Edessa, have now supplanted “the People,” the Jews of Jerusalem in the history of salvation. He promotes what he sees as the faithful heritage of Edessa, the first-ripe fruit of Gentile faith, against the faithlessness of Jerusalem. King Abgar’s early faith in Jesus, coming before the Crucifixion and Ascension, has bestowed upon Edessa, the “Daughter of the Aramaeans,” a unique heritage. As a poet-theologian, Jacob creatively couches his apology as an imagined conflict between two young women, Edessa and Jerusalem, over the Bridegroom Jesus, promised to one but loved by the other. A final stirring paean conveys a late fifth-century vision of the spread of the Good News to the Gentile nations of the world. The volume constitutes a fascicle of The Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug, which, when complete, will contain the original Syriac text of Jacob's surviving sermons, fully vocalized, alongside an annotated English translation.

Sermons, Syriac --- Sermons, Syriac. --- Abgar --- Jesus Christ --- Jacob, --- Abgar letters

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"The Doctrine of Addai tells the story of how Christianity came to the Syrian city of Edessa. It incorporates and adapts a correspondence between Jesus and the Syrian king Abgar, who wrote to Jesus requesting healing from a long-term illness. In his response, Jesus promises to send him an apostle, Addai (sometimes called Thaddaeus), who will heal Abgar's disease and establish Christianity in his kingdom. The exchange between Jesus and Abgar and Edessa's subsequent evangelization by Addai functions as a founding myth for Christianity in the region, which likely did become Christian under a later King Abgar in the early third century. But the activities and interactions of Addai in Edessa reflect a later time: the fifth century, when Christians in the East were embroiled in a conflict over reforms enacted by the Bishop Rabbula. These complexities of Syrian Christian history are all made clear in the introduction and rich commentary that accompanies this updated English translation of the Doctrine of Addai and related texts--including early witnesses to the Abgar/Jesus Correspondence in papyri and inscriptions, and selections from the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea, the Acts of Thaddaeus, and the Acts of Mar Mari." --

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Collection. Joannissiany, Abgar. Tiflis. 1903 --- Mss Tbilissi. Mss arméniens --- Mss collection Abgar Joannissiany

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229*43 --- Apocriefe brieven der apostelen: tussen Christus en Abgar; brieven van de Alexandrijnen, Barnabas, Clemens, Hermas, Korinthiërs, Laodicenzen, tussen Paulus en Seneca --- 229*43 Apocriefe brieven der apostelen: tussen Christus en Abgar; brieven van de Alexandrijnen, Barnabas, Clemens, Hermas, Korinthiërs, Laodicenzen, tussen Paulus en Seneca --- Apocriefe brieven der apostelen: tussen Christus en Abgar; brieven van de Alexandrijnen, Barnabas, Clemens, Hermas, Korinthiërs, Laodicenzen, tussen Paulus en Seneca.