Holy women of the Syrian Orient [electronic resource] / introduced and translated by Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey. - Updated ed., with a new preface. - Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1998, c1987. - xix, 197 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Transformation of the classical heritage ; 13 . - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

"First paperback printing 1998"--T.p. verso. E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-193) and index.

Mary, the niece of Abraham of Qidun -- Pelagia, of Antioch -- Persian martyrs : Martha, Tarbo, Martyrs of Karak d-Beth Slokh (Kirkuk), History of Karka d-Beth Slokh, Thekla and companions, Anahid -- Women martyrs of Najran : From Simeon of Beth Arsham's second letter, From the Book of the Himyarits -- From the Lives of the eastern saints / by John of Ephesus : Mary and Euphemia, Susan -- Anastasia -- Febronia -- Shirin.



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