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A state of mixture : Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian political culture in late Antiquity /

"A State of Mixture seeks to resolve the paradox of how East Syrian Christian communities flourished in a Zoroastrian political system, the Iranian Empire. If previous studies have regarded Christians as marginal, insular, and often persecuted, the present book demonstrates their integration in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Payne, Richard E., 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Colección:Transformation of the classical heritage ; 56.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The myth of Zoroastrian intolerance : violence and the terms of Christian inclusion
  • Belonging to a land : Christians and Zoroastrians in the Iranian highlands
  • Christian lawmaking and Iranian social practice : the reforms of Mar Aba
  • Creating a Christian aristocracy : hagiography and empire in northern Mesopotamia
  • The Christian symbolics of power in a Zoroastrian empire.