Upper Mesopotamia and surrounding regions during the Early Christian period, with Edessa in the upper left quadrant. Edessa (/ ə ˈ d ɛ s ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἔδεσσα, romanized: Édessa) was an ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia, in what is now Urfa or Şanlıurfa, Turkey.It was founded during the Hellenistic period by Macedonian general and self proclaimed king Seleucus I Nicator (r.

Edessan, Edessian, or Edessene may refer to: - in general: someone or something related to the city of Edessa in northern Greece; someone or something related to the city of Edessa in southeastern Turkey - in particular: Edessan Middle Aramaic …

2018年9月25日 · Roman Edessa. As the power of Rome grew, Osroene became a dependency within the Roman Empire, with Pompey the Great (106-48 BCE) notably granting King Abgar II (r. 68-53 BCE) an enlarged territory. The religion practised in Osroene was pagan, but much closer to that of Parthia than Rome. Emperor Trajan (r. 98-117 CE) was a notable guest, visiting Edessa on his tour of the region when he was ...

[b] The Chronicle primarily used old Edessan royal archives as its source, as well as some more recent church records, [1] and accordingly is thought to be historically reliable. [2] [3] [4] It may make use of a lost history of Persia. [5] It is extant only in an abbreviated version in a single manuscript, Vatican Syriac 163 (Vat. Syr. 163).

Edessan Christianity in the 3d century showed marks of stringent asceticism as instanced by the Acts of Thomas and the Tract on Virginity, as well as the vogue of spiritual marriage. tatian was there after 170, and also bardesanes (d. 222), the Gnostic hymn writer. It was affected by the persecutions of Decius and Diocletian.

In 163 Parthian troops invaded northern Mesopotamia, deposed the local Edessan king Manu VIII and put on the throne their own candidate Wael bar Sahru. The only evidence from Wael's reign are bronze coins with his bust and his name in Syriac on obverse and Vologoses III …

Edessan claim to be the original church founded through the correspondence of Jesus Christ himself. This document intentionally sought to undermine the primacy and thus the authority of the Greek-speaking Gentile Church. to this viewpoint, Gentiles could become Christians by first becoming Jews (i.e. following traditional Jewish practices).

In the fourth century c.e. Edessan Christianity tended toward zealous monasticism. Along with this movement come the intellectual bards of Syriac literature: Ephrem the Syrian (fourth century), Jacob of Sarug (fifth century), and Philoxenus of Mabbug. From 363 until 489 Edessa was the major intellectual center for Syriac Christians.

2011年4月1日 · This paper reviews the cultural and linguistic environment in which the Syriac dialect of Aramaic emerged as a language of inscriptions, legal documents and, in due course, literature. It is argued that the evidence for the hellenization of the Edessa region in the Greek and early Roman periods is slight. Edessa owed more to its Semitic cultural roots and early Syriac writings do not reflect ...

2011年7月15日 · Edessan society was highly sophisticated. Clothes were heavily embroidered and gaily colored, and much jewelry was worn. The cave tombs outside the city walls were decorated with reliefs and mosaics.