Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier: The Early History of Tur `Abdin by Andrew Palmer
Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier: The Early History of Tur `Abdin
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Andrew Palmer
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Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier: The Early History of Tur `Abdin

Andrew Palmer

289 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

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Tur cAdin is a plateau skirted by the Upper Tigris in south-eastern Turkey. Syrian Orthodox Christians of Aramaic tongue still worship in its Late Antique churches. Monks converted the region and the most powerful monastery, founded in the fourth ...

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