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Assyrians = Syrians (2)

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Conversion of Syria/Mesopotamia to Christianity
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.01 Conversion of Syria/Mesopotamia to Christianity
Identification of speakers of Aramaic as Assyrians (2)
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12.02.03.06 Identification of speakers of Aramaic as Assyrians (2)

Keywords
Assyria
Christianity

Period
4th century CE
Byzantine Empire

Channel
Christian-Syriac philosophers and scholars

Text
Doctrina Addai:
And those who became his disciples (in Edessa) received from him the Hand of Priesthood, and in their country of the Assyrians they taught the sons of their own people, and built houses of prayer there secretly, through danger of the fire worshippers and the adorers of water. And Narses the King of the Assyrians, when he heard of the things which the Apostle Addaeus did …

To Simon (was given for the missionary task) Rome, and to John fell Ephesus; to Thomas India, and to Addaeus the country of the Assyrians …

Source (list of abbreviations)
Doctrina Addai

Bibliography

Cureton 1864, 16, 122

Cureton, William. Ancient Syriac Documents. London: Williams and Norgate 1864 (reprint: Amsterdam: Oriental Press 1971).

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Cf. Assyrians = Syrians (1)
Cf. Assyrians = Syrians (3)

George V. Yana (Bebla)

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