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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Garry W.TrompfAn Agenda for the Study of the Jesus Letterhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/XV3GEREWhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/XV3GEREWhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/XV3GEREWIran and the Caucasus27:4-52023374-384The ancient correspondence allegedly between the Toparch Abgar V of Edessa and Jesus of Nazareth is usually treated in modern scholarship as legendary, though possession of it was important for the legitimation of Armenia as the first Christian kingdom in ca. 314 A.D. (prior to Constantine’s ‘Christian’ rule of a united Roman Empire from 324, and well before Theodosius I’s Edict of Thessalonica in 380). This paper attempts to create a demythologized space in which to reconsider the historical probability that Jesus, widely reputed as a healer in the chief (Near Eastern) Jewish centre of influence, was asked for help by an ailing eminent and replied to his request. Along the way, questions will be raised for further research (italicized) and so in this sense the article takes the form of an Agenda.
Trompf, Garry W. “An Agenda for the Study of the Jesus Letter.” Iran and the Caucasus 27:4-5 (2023): 374–84. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384X-02704005.
Garry W. Trompf, An Agenda for the Study of the Jesus Letter,Iran and the Caucasus 27:4-5 (2023): 374–84, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384X-02704005.