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Barṣauma of Nisibis and Persian christianity in the fifth century
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ISBN: 2801701645 9782801701645 Year: 1981 Volume: 63 426 Publisher: Lovanii : Peeters,


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The Wandering Holy Man : The Life of Barsauma, Christian Asceticism, and Religious Conflict in Late Antique Palestine
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ISBN: 9780520304147 0520304144 9780520972957 0520972953 Year: 2020 Volume: LX Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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Barsauma was a fifth-century Syrian ascetic, archimandrite, and leader of monks, notorious for his extreme asceticism and violent anti-Jewish campaigns across the Holy Land. Although Barsauma was a powerful and revered figure in the Eastern church, modern scholarship has widely dismissed him as a thug of peripheral interest. Until now, only the most salacious bits of the Life of Barsauma—a fascinating collection of miracles that Barsauma undertook across the Near East—had been translated. This pioneering study includes the first full translation of the Life and a series of studies by scholars employing a range of methods to illuminate the text from different angles and contexts. This is the authoritative source on this influential figure in the history of the church and his life, travels, and relations with other religious groups.


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The life of the Syrian Saint Barsauma : eulogy of a hero of the resistance to the Council of Chalcedon
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ISBN: 9780520304178 0520304160 9780520304161 0520304179 9780520972988 0520972988 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press,

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Andrew Palmer’s vivid translation of the Syriac Life of Barsauma opens a fascinating window onto the ancient Middle East, seen through the life and actions of one of its most dramatic and ambiguous characters: the monk Barsauma, ascetic hero to some, religious terrorist to others. The Life takes us into the eye of the storm that raged around Christian attempts to define the nature of Christ in the great council of Chalcedon, the effects of which was to split the growing Church irrevocably, with the Oriental Orthodox on one side, Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic on the other. Hitherto known only in extracts, this ancient text is finally brought to readers in its entirety, casting dramatic new light on the relations between pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Holy Land and on the role of religious violence, real or imagined, in the mental world of a Middle East as shot through with conflict as it is, alas, today.

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