The history of the Holy Mar Maʿin with a guide to the Persian martyr acts

1. Verfasser: Brock, Sebastian P.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2008.
Ausgabe: 1st Gorgias Press ed.
Umfang/Format: viii, 125 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Persian martyr acts in Syriac : texts and translation ; v. 1
ISBN: 9781593332228
Online-Zugang: Table of contents only
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction and outline
  • Synopsis
  • Literary models
  • Date of composition : the linguistic evidence
  • Fiey's dating of the life
  • Topography
  • The chronological data
  • Historicity
  • The manuscript
  • The present edition
  • Apparatus
  • Translation
  • Annotation
  • A guide to the Persian martyr acts
  • Syriac texts
  • Under Vahran II (276-293)
  • Under Shapur II (309-379)
  • Late fourth century
  • Under Yazdgard I (399-420)
  • Under Vahram V (421-438)
  • Under Yazdgard II (439-457)
  • Late fifth century
  • Under Khosro I (531-579)
  • Under Khosro I/Hormizd iv/khosro II
  • Under Khosro II (591-628)
  • Concordance with Bedjan, AMS II and IV
  • Early manuscripts
  • Greek translations
  • Personal names, excluding biblical
  • Biblical personal names
  • Place names (alphabeticized according to the Syriac alphabet)
  • Names of Persian martyrs listed at the end of British Library, add. 12,150 (copied in Edessa and dated November, AD 411).