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1 online resource (325 p.) |
Series |
Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World Series |
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Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World Series
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Pilgrims from the Far East on Pilgrimage to the West: Rabban Sauma and Marqos and Their Travel towards Jerusalem |
Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781000877465 |
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1000877469 |
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