{"product_id":"thomas-of-edessas-explanations-of-ute-possekel-9780198724070","title":"Thomas of Edessa's Explanations of the Nativity and Epiphany","description":"Thomas of Edessa flourished as a teacher at the School of Nisibis, an important Christian intellectual centre in sixth-century Persia. He accompanied the later patriarch Mar Aba on his travels around the Mediterranean and followed him to Nisibis. Thomas's only surviving writings are two lectures in Syriac ('Explanations') on the feasts of the Nativity and Epiphany. These discourses were later incorporated into a collection of \u003cem\u003eExplanations of the Feasts\u003c\/em\u003e covering the whole ecclesiastical year. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume presents an edition of Thomas of Edessa's Syriac text of \u003cem\u003eNativity\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEpiphany\u003c\/em\u003e, accompanied by a facing-page English translation. These discourses, with the editors' introduction and notes, elucidate Thomas's place in the theological development of the Church of the East. He is the earliest author after Narsai to draw extensively upon the theology of Theodore of Mopsuestia, but earlier Syriac traditions are also reflected in his work, and his Christology is not yet the doctrine characteristic of Babai and later East Syriac authors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ute Possekel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198724071\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198724070\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Ute Possekel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43944015921407,"sku":"9780198724070","price":165.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_580b133c-1310-4121-851a-3eafdc83fb0f.jpg?v=1681501303","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/thomas-of-edessas-explanations-of-ute-possekel-9780198724070","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}