This is a work that is fragmentary in the form that it survives. It is drawn upon a Georgian manuscript composed around the 13th or 14th century, relating events of Christian Martyrs during the reign of the emperor Diocletian. These events either appears as a leaf from a synaxarium or an older work of hagiography that appears to have traveled through the Sassanian Empire before arriving in Georgia prior to the 6th century. Its manuscript source is unknown as it has no known parallels in the lives of medieval saints. The martyrs themselves are said to have been residing in Roman Arabia, near the mercantile city of Petra at the end of the 3rd century. This work therefore provides a rare insight into the little known world of early Arabic Christianity, and make some curious allusion to a place called 'Bacca', otherwise only noted in the Quran.
Translated by:
D P Curtin Imprint: Dalcassian Publishing Company Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 1mm
Weight: 41g ISBN:9798330203765 Pages: 20 Publication Date:15 June 2022 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
