The letter of Mara bar Sarapion in context : proceedings of the symposium held at Utrecht University, 10-12 December 2009 / / edited by Annette Merz and Teun L. Tieleman.

• TeilnehmendeR: Merz, Annette.; Tieleman, Teun.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 58.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The Letter of Mara bar Sarapion to his son – preserved in a single Syriac manuscript (7th. century CE) – still speaks to its readers, evocatively depicting the dramatic situation of a nobleman imprisoned after the Roman capture of Samosata, capital of Commagene. The letter is best known today for a...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• 1. General Introduction / Annette Merz and Teun Tieleman
• 2. Making Use of History beyond the Euphrates: Political Views, Cultural Traditions, and Historical Contexts in the Letter of Mara bar Sarapion / Michael A. Speidel
• 3. Cultural Responses from Kingdom to Province: The Romanisation of Commagene, Local Identities and the Mara bar Sarapion Letter / Miguel John Versluys
• 4. Languages, Cultural Identities and Elites in the Land of Mara bar Sarapion / Margherita Facella
• 5. Religious Life of Commagene in the Late Hellenistic and Early Roman Period / Michael Blömer
• 6. Jesus as the Ever-Living Lawgiver in the Letter of Mara bar Sarapion / Petr Pokorný
• 7. Mara’s God(s) and Time / Albert de Jong
• 8. Where is Wisdom to be Found? A Plea in Favor of Semitic Influences in the Letter of Mara bar Sarapion / Pancratius C. Beentjes
• 9. Mara bar Sarapion and Greek Philosophy / David L. Blank
• 10. The Death(s) of Plato / Anna Ntinti
• 11. Consolation from Prison: Mara bar Sarapion and Boethius / Pieter W. van der Horst
• 12. Mara bar Sarapion: Comments on the Syriac Edition, Translation, and Notes by David Rensberger / Ilaria L.E. Ramelli
• Index of Names and Subjects
• Index of Ancient Sources
• Maps.