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A spring festival in Edessa, 496 CE (1)

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Continuity of “Old Faith” beside Christianity
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.02 Continuity of “Old Faith” beside Christianity
Edessa
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.02 Continuity of “Old Faith” beside Christianity
12.03.02.03 Edessa
Marriage of Nabû (Iyyar/April)
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.01 Public festivals
03.01.02 Marriage of Nabû (Iyyar/April)

Keywords
Edessa
festivals

Period
6th century CE
Byzantine Empire

Channel
Byzantine philosophers and scholars

Text
pseudo-Joshua the Stylite, Chronicle 27:
On the seventeenth May this year, when good gifts were liberally bestowed by heaven upon all, the crops were plentiful by the bounty (of heaven), the rain came down, and the fruits of the earth grew in season, the bulk of the citizens cut off hope of salvation to go sinning in public. Revelling in their delights, they gave no thanks to God for his gifts, but were negligent in [thanksgiving] and succumbed to the pestilence of sin. As even the hidden and open sins in which they were engrossed did not satisfy them, they got ready on this specified date, which was Friday night, when a dancer was dancing, and (this) lasted a period of three days.

Source (list of abbreviations)
pseudo-Joshua the Stylite, Chronicle 27

Bibliography

Greatrex and Watt 1999, 4

Greatrex, Geoffrey and John W. Watt. “One, Two or Three Feasts? The Brytae, the Maiuma and the May Festival at Edessa.” Oriens Christianus 83 (1999) 1-20.

Amar Annus

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