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Edessa.

See also the page on Syriac Christianity.

Ancient sources.

Ancient Syriac Documents Relative to the Earliest Establishment of Christianity in Edessa and the Neighbouring Countries, from the year after our Lord’s ascension to the beginning of the fourth century. Discovered, edited, translated, and annotated by the late W. Cureton, D.D., F.R.S. With a preface by W. Wright, Ph.D., LL.D. London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1864.
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Lettre d’Abgar, ou Histoire de la conversion des Édesséens. Par Laboubnia, écrivain contemporain des apôtres. Traduite sur la version Arménienne du Ve siècle. Venise : Imprimerie mekhitariste de S. Lazare, 1868.
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The Doctrine of Addai, the Apostle, now first edited in a complete form in the original Syriac, with an English translation and notes. By George Phillips, D.D. London: Trübner & Co., 1876.
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Euphemia and the Goth. With the Acts of Martyrdom of the Confessors of Edessa. Edited and examined by F. C. Burkitt. London and Oxford: Published for the Text and Translation Society by Williams and Norgate, 1913.
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Spicilegium Syriacum: containing remains of Bardesan, Meliton, Ambrose, and Mara bar Serapion. Now first edited, with an English translation and notes, by the Rev. William Cureton, M.A., F.R.S. London: Rivingtons, 1855.
London: Francis and John Rivington, 1855. —Different title page, but otherwise apparently identical. It looks as though the “Rivingtons” version may be a later printing retaining the date of the original printing.

The Chronicle of Joshua the Stylite, composed in Syriac a.d. 507, with a translation into English and notes by W. Wright, LL.D. Cambridge, 1882.

The Syriac Chronicle Known as That of Zachariah of Mitylene. Translated into English by F. J. Hamilton, D.D., and E. W. Brooks, M.A. London: Methuen & Co., 1899.

Scholia on Passages of the Old Testament, by Mār Jacob, Bishop of Edessa, now first edited in the original Syriac, with an English translation and notes, by George Phillips, D.D. London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1864.

Modern Histories.

Theophili Sigefridi Bayeri Regiomontani Historia Osrhoena et Edessena ex Numis Illustrata. in qua, Edessae urbis, Osrhoëni regni, Abgarorum regum, praefectorum Graecorum, Arabum, Persarum, Comitum Francorum, successiones, fata, res aliae memorabiles, a prima origine urbis ad extrema fere tempora explicantur. Petropoli, Ex Typographia Academiae, 1734.

Les Origines de l’église d’Édesse et la légende d’Abgar. Étude critique suivie de deux textes orientaux inédits. Par L.-J. Tixeront. Paris : Maisonneuve et Ch. Leclerc, 1888.

Les Origines de l’èglise d’Édesse et des églises syriennes. Par J.-P.-P. Martin. Paris : Maisonneuve et Ch. Leclerc. Amien : Rousseau-Leroy et Cie. 1889.

Histoire politique, religieuse et littéraire d’Édesse jusqu’à la première croisade. Par Rubens Duval. Mémoire couronné par l’Institut (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres). Paris : Imprimerie Nationale, 1892.

Early Eastern Christianity. St. Margaret’s Lectures 1904 on the Syriac-Speaking Church. By F. Craford Burkitt. London: John Murray, 1904. —The first lecture is “The Early Bishops of Edessa.”
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