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Holy women of the Syrian Orient / introduced and translated by Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey.
LIBRA BR1713 .H625 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Transformation of the classical heritage ; 13.
- Transformation of the classical heritage ; 13
- Language:
- English
- Syriac, Modern
- Subjects (All):
- Christian saints--Middle East--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Christian saints.
- Women in Christianity.
- History.
- Middle East.
- Women in Christianity--History--Early church, ca. 30-600--Early works to 1800.
- Syriac Christians--Middle East--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Syriac Christians.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 197 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1987]
- Contents:
- Mary, the niece of Abraham of Qidun
- Pelagia, of Antioch
- Persian martyrs
- Women martyrs of Najran
- From the Lives of the eastern saints / by John of Ephesus
- Anastasia
- Febronia
- Shirin.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 183-193.
- ISBN:
- 0520057058
- OCLC:
- 13666126
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