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The Life of the Syrian Saint Barsauma - Eulogy of a Hero of the Resistance to the Council of Chalcedon (Hardcover)
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The Life of the Syrian Saint Barsauma - Eulogy of a Hero of the Resistance to the Council of Chalcedon (Hardcover)
Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 61
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Andrew N. 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 effect of which
was to split the growing Church irrevocably, with the Oriental
Orthodox on one side and Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic on the
other. Previously known only in extracts, this ancient text is now
finally brought to readers in its entirety, casting dramatic new
light on the relations among 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 today.
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