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Andrew Palmer
Andrew Palmer teaches Classics at a Dutch Grammar School. He holds a D.Phil from the University of Oxford. He has more than ninety publications, mainly on Syriac in the context of Byzantine Studies, and is presently preparing an edition of the Life of Barsawmo for a Muenster-based project on religious violence in Late Antiquity.
The Life of Sallara and his Mother Elishbah
East Syrian Christianity in Northern Mesopotamia from Late Antiquity to Early Islam
Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 81
ISBN: 978-1-4632-4802-4
The first ever edition and translation of a biography of Sallara and his mother Elishbah, exploring both its local context – their asceticism and deeds in North Mesopotamia in the early 7th century – and the geopolitical events underway in the Middle East: war between Persia and Byzantium, and the rise of Islam in the region.
$114.95 $91.96
The Life of Theodotus of Amida
Syriac Christianity under the Umayyad Caliphate
Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 73
ISBN: 978-1-4632-4409-5
The Life of Theodotus of Amida is that rare thing: a securely dated eye-witness account of life under Arab Muslim rule in the first century of Islam, and one of the few extant texts from seventh-century North Mesopotamia. It is imbued with local color and contemporary detail, revealing an intimate knowledge of the terrain, its inhabitants and officialdom, as well as the precariousness of the lives of those living in the borderlands between the Byzantine and Islamic empires.
$75.00 $45.00