Name: The Martyrdom and History of Blessed Simeon bar Sabba'e (Persian Martyr Acts in Syriac: Text and Translation) (en Inglés)
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Author: Kyle Smith
ISBN: 9781463202453

portada The Martyrdom and History of Blessed Simeon bar Sabba'e (Persian Martyr Acts in Syriac: Text and Translation) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Gorgias Pr Llc

Autor

Kyle Smith

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

290

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781463202453

The Martyrdom and History of Blessed Simeon bar Sabba'e (Persian Martyr Acts in Syriac: Text and Translation) (en Inglés)

Kyle Smith (Autor) · Gorgias Pr Llc · Tapa Blanda

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Around the year 339 CE, Simeon bar Sabbae (the bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon on the Tigris) was killed by the Persian king Shapur II. Simeon was arrested for refusing to collect taxes from his flock, and he was beheaded for disobeying the king's order to worship the sun. The bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon was no minor figure. In fact, Simeon's martyr acts proclaim that he was the leader of the Christians of Persia and the protomartyr of Shapur's forty-year persecution. Curiously, however, two very different versions of Simeon's death exist. Each is presented here with an accompanying translation and notes. The shorter and earlier version of Simeon's death, the Martyrdom, compares the Christians of Persia to the Maccabees and equates Simeon with the great Jewish warrior Judah the Maccabee. The much longer and later version, the History, takes a different approach. Omitting all references to the Maccabees, the History compares the Christians of the East (Persia) to the persecuted Christians of the West (the Roman Empire) prior to Constantine. Simeon's Martyrdom and History are fundamental sources for chronicling the history of Christianity in Sasanian Persia. Together, these texts testify to the centrality of martyrdom literature in late ancient Syriac Christianity, and they show how Persian Christians forged their own political and religious identities amidst the ongoing Christianization of the Roman Empire.