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antiquity
arabic
archaeology
Author_Joel Walker
byzantium
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Category=NK
Category=QRA
Category=QRM
christian martyr
christianity
cloister
conversion
devotion
epics
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festival
folk narrative
folk tradition
folklore
hagiography
hero
iraq
kurdistan
legend
mar qardagh
martyr
martyr cult
martyrdom
mission
monasticism
monks
myth
nestorian church
nonfiction
persia
persian
philosophy
piety
relics
religion
religious persecution
saint
sasanian empire
spirituality
theology
zoroastrianism
Product details
- ISBN 9780520245785
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Apr 2006
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This pioneering study uses an early seventh-century Christian martyr legend to elucidate the culture and society of late antique Iraq. Translated from Syriac into English here for the first time, the legend of Mar Qardagh introduces a hero of epic proportions whose characteristics confound simple classification. During the several stages of his career, Mar Qardagh hunts like a Persian King, argues like a Greek philosopher, and renounces his Zoroastrian family to live with monks high in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan. Drawing on both literary and artistic sources, Joel Walker explores the convergence of these diverse themes in the Christian culture of the Sasanian Empire (224-642). Taking the Qardagh legend as its foundation, his study guides readers through the rich and complex world of late antique Iraq.
Joel Thomas Walker teaches in the Department of History at the University of Washington in Seattle.
