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Author Popa, Catalin-Stefan

Title The Making of Syriac Jerusalem Representations of the Holy City in Syriac Literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (325 p.)
Series Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World Series
Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World Series
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: The Beginnings of Syriac Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land -- 1 Early Syriac Pilgrims to Palestine -- Sinai's Sacred Topography as Remedy and Substitute for the Holy Places of Jerusalem -- 2 The Four Legendary Pilgrimages to Jerusalem of the West Syriac Monk Barsauma -- 3 Rabbula of Edessa and Benjamin of Nehardea: Jerusalem as a Stage in the Formation of the Monk -- 4 The Ideal of aksenoyutho: John of Ephesus Portraying Syriac Women as Pilgrims to Jerusalem
5 Against the Pilgrimage to Jerusalem: Philoxenos of Mabug, Īšōʿyahb I, Rabban Hormizd, and the Promotion of Local Tradition -- 6 The Motif of Travelling to Jerusalem in the Monastic Histories of Thomas of Marga and Īšōʿdenāḥ of Basra -- 7 A Survey into Syriac Liturgical Theology and its Genealogical Interrelation with Jerusalem -- 8 The Symbol of the Holy Wood of Jerusalem in the Consciousness of Syriac Christians -- East Syriac Patriarch Sabrīšōʿ and the Holy Cross
Syriac Literature on the Persian Conquest of Jerusalem and the Transfer of the True Cross to Persia and Its Restoration to the Holy City -- Part II: Syriac Christians and the Tradition of the Holy Places of Palestine following the Islamic Conquest of Jerusalem (638-639) -- 1 Syriac Sources and the Muslim Conquest of Jerusalem: Myths and Compilations in Syriac Sources -- 2 Īšōʿyahb III and the Syriac Christians of the Holy City -- 3 Timotheus I and the East Syriac Bishopric of the Holy Land -- 4 West Syriac Bishops of Jerusalem
5 A Brief Attempt at a Patristic Perspective: Jerusalem as Viewed through Political and Interreligious Identitary Clichés -- Jacob of Serugh and the Early Syriac Exegetical Tradition depicting Edessa as Superior to Jerusalem -- Early and Late Exegesis: Elias of Nisibis and the Rhetoric about the Lost Byzantine Jerusalem and the Syriac Paradise -- Part III: The Portrayal of Jerusalem in Syriac Chronicles and Poems on the Second Islamic Conquest and Subsequent Period, and the Presence of Syriac Pilgrims in Palestine in the Late Medieval Period
1 Ṣalāḥ ad-Din's Conquest of Jerusalem in Syriac Literature -- The Battle of Tiberias -- The Making of a Count as a Heretic in Syriac Sources: Reymond of Tripoli -- The Conquest of Jerusalem -- 2 Syriac Communities in the Holy Land and the Holy City of the Middle Ages -- Syriac Inhabitants in the Holy City -- The Turbulent Bar Wahbun and His Migration or Oscillation between the Barsaumo Convent and the Holy City -- Syriac Possessions in the Holy City -- 3 Syriac Pilgrimages to the Holy City after the Second Muslim Conquest -- Between the Earthly and Heavenly Jerusalem in Barhebraeus' Ethicon
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Pilgrims from the Far East on Pilgrimage to the West: Rabban Sauma and Marqos and Their Travel towards Jerusalem
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000877465
1000877469