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The solar eclipse (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Sun Omens 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.02 Omen interpretation 05.02.01 Celestial omens (Enūma Anu Enlil) 05.02.01.02 Sun Omens	Keywords astrology Christianity omens
Period 6th century CE Byzantine Empire	Channel Christian-Syriac philosophers and scholars

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This Syriac text associates the solar eclipse (in 218 CE) with anger of the God, as did the ancient Mesopotamian texts.

Chronicle of Arbela 8:
Following after (the bishop) ˁEbed Mešiha was the blessed Hairan, who was from Bet Armaje. And in his beginnings there were uprisings and wars in every town. And the sun shut itself away and did not want to show us its light. A sign of the scorn of God regarding his rebel people.

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Chronicle of Arbela 8

Bibliography

Kawerau 1985, 48

Kawerau, Peter. Die Chronik von Arbela. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 468. Leuven: Peeters 1985.

Amar Annus

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