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The Doctrine of Addai (
Mari in Mesopotamia.[1]
Content
The story of how
Eusebius of Caesarea in his Ecclesiastical History (i.13 and iii.1) and it was retold in elaborated form by Ephrem the Syrian.[citation needed
]
Purpose
gnostics, who had an older and stronger presence in the area and traced their lineage to Thomas the Apostle.[2][b] He considers the Palutian faction to have come to Edessa around 200 CE and only become significant in the fourth century.[3]
Manuscripts
- ms Saint-Pétersbourg, Bibliothèque Publique Saltykov-Shchedrine, N.S. Syr. 4 (Pigulevskaya 48), f. 1v33
- ms Londres, British Library, Add. 14654, f. 33r-v (fgt) + Add. 14644, f. 1-9v + Add. 14535, f. 1r (fgt) + Add. 12155, f. 53v + Add. 17193, f. 36v-37 (extrait)
- ms Alqosh, Église paroissiale chaldéenne, cod. 87 ?
- ms Londres, British Library, Add. 12161, f. 1v (fgt)
- ms Londres, British Library, Add. 14612, f. 165r (fgt)
- ms Londres, British Library, Add. 14644, f. 1-9v (mutilé du début et au milieu)
- ms Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, syr. 62, f. 102v-108 (extraits)
- ms Birmingham, Selly Oak College Library, Coll. Mingana, Syr. 405, f. 1
- ms Jérusalem, Couvent syrien orthodoxe Saint-Marc, cod. 153, p. 241-259[4]
- Pseudo-Abdias (x. 1)
- Nicephorus (H. E., ii. 7)better source needed]
Published editions
- Phillips, George, ed. (1876). The Doctrine of Addai, the apostle (in Syriac). London: Trübner & Co. pp. 51–106.
- Meščerskaja, Elena Nikitična (1984). Legenda ob Avgare — rannesirijskij literaturnyj pamjatnik: istoričeskie korni v ėvoljucii apokrifičeskoj legendy [The Legend of Abgar — early Syrian literary monument: Historical roots and evolution of an apocryphal legend] (in Russian). Moscow: Nauka. pp. 119–184. OCLC 715504370.
Modern translations
English
- Cureton, William (1864). Ancient Syriac documents relative to earliest establishment of Christianity in Edessa and the neighbouring countries, from the year after our Lord's Ascension to the beginning of the fourth century. London, UK: Williams and Norgate. p. 6–23, 108–109.
- Phillips, George, ed. (1876). The Doctrine of Addai, the apostle. London: Trübner & Co. pp. 1–50. (HTML version)
- Howard, George (1981). The Teaching of Addai: Texts and translations. Early Christian literature series. Chico, CA: Scholars Press.
Other
- Desreumaux, Alain (1993). Histoire du roi Abgar et de Jésus: présentation et trad. du texte syriaque intégral de "La doctrine d'Addaï" [History of King Abgar and Jesus: Presentation and tradition Of the Syriac text of "The Doctrine of Addai"] (in French). Paris: Brepols. pp. 53–117. ISBN 978-2-503-50305-9. This also contains an Ethiopian version.[6]
- Dutch: Jan Willem Drijvers, Helena Augusta, waarheid en legende ( Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 1989), pp: 153–157, Note: partielle
- Russian: Elena Nikitična Meščerskaja, Legenda ob Avgare — rannesirijskij literaturnyj pamjatnik: (istoričeskie korni v ėvoljucii apokrifičeskoj legendy) ( Moskva: Nauka, 1984), pp: 185–203
- Armenian: A Carrière, La légende d'Abgar dans l'Histoire d'Arménie de Moïse de Khoren ( Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1895), pp: 357–414
- Ethiopic: Getatchew Haile, " The Legend of Abgar in Ethiopic Tradition," Orientalia christiana periodica vol. 55 ( 1989), pp: 375–410[4]
See also
- Abgar Legend
- Holy Qurbana of Addai and Mari
- Early centers of Christianity
Notes
- ^ The group now understood as the orthodox faction was known as the Palutians in Syria at this time. (Koester 1965, p. 305)
- ^ Cf. Bauer, Walter (1909). Das Leben Jesu im Zeitalter der neutestamentlichen Apokryphen (in German). Tübingen, Germany: J. C. B. Mohr. pp. 444–445.
Citations
- ISBN 9781461718956.
- ^ Koester 1965, p. 296,305.
- ^ Koester 1965, p. 305-306.
- ^ a b c Saint-Laurent et al. 2015.
- ^
Walker, Alexander (1885). . In Roberts, Alexander; Donaldson, James (eds.). Ante-Nicene Christian Library. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark.. Note: Walker conflates the 'Acts of Thaddeus with the Doctrine of Addai.
- ^ French national library
References
- Bauer, Walter (1991) [1934]. Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity. Translated by Steely, John E.; Kraft, Robert A. Archived from the original on 18 August 2000.
- Koester, Helmut (July 1965). "ΓΝΩΜΑΙ ΔΙΑΦΟΡΟΙ: The Origin and Nature of Diversification in the History of Early Christianity". Harvard Theological Review. 58 (3): 279–318. S2CID 163149876.
- Saint-Laurent, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon; Michelson, David A.; Zanetti, Ugo; Detienne, Claude, eds. (5 November 2015). "Addai (Teaching of) (text)". Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
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Further reading
- Leclercq, Henri (1913). . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- Doctrine of Addai Archived 2017-04-19 at the Wayback Machine (text, in English)
- Chapman, Henry Palmer (1913). . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- Phillips, George, ed. (1876). "Preface". The Doctrine of Addai, the apostle. London: Trübner & Co. p. iii–xv. (HTML version)
- Griffith, Sidney H. (2003). "The Doctrina Addai as a Paradigm of Christian Thought in Edessa in the Fifth Century" (PDF). Institute of Christian Oriental Research, Catholic University of America. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) (HTML version) - Ramelli, Ilaria (2006). "Possible historical traces in the Doctrina Addai" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 9 (1). Catholic University of Milan. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 December 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2017. (HTML version)