Holy women of the Syrian Orient
By: introduced and translated by Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey.
Contributors: Brock, Sebastian P.; Harvey, Susan Ashbrook.
Series: The Transformation of the classical heritage ;; 13
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Christian saints -- Middle East -- Biography -- Early works to 1800; Women in Christianity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 -- Early works to 1800; Syriac Christians -- Middle East -- Biography -- Early works to 1800
Notes: Bibliography: p. 183-193.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Mary, the niece of Abraham of Qidun; title: Pelagia, of Antioch; title: Persian martyrs; title: Women martyrs of Najran; title: From the Lives of the eastern saints / by John of Ephesus; title: Anastasia; title: Febronia; title: Shirin.