The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq by Joel Walker

The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq

Joel Walker

345 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

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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...

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