Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction 

1 The Teaching of Jacob the Newly Baptized 

2 Synodical Letter, Homily on the Nativity, and Homily on Epiphany
Sophronius of Jerusalem

3 A Syriac Fragment Concerning the Believers' Invasion of Syria

4 Letter 14
Maximus the Confessor

5 Chronicle 
Thomas the Presbyter

6 The Armenian Chronicle of 661 attributed to Sebeos

7 The Spiritual Meadow, Appendix to the Georgian Version
John Moschus

8 Homily on the End-Times
Ps.-Ephrem the Syrian

9 Letter 14C
Ishoʿyahb III of Adiabene

10 Edifying Tales, Homily on the Lord’s Passion, The Hodegos, and Questions and Answers
Anastasius of Sinai

11 The Khuzistan Chronicle 

12 The Apocalypse of Rabbi Shimʿōn b. Yohai, The Secrets of Rabbi Shimʿōn b. Yohai 

13 Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer 30 

14 The Maronite Chronicle 

15 On the Holy Places 
Adomnán / Arculf

16 The Apocalypse of Ps.-Shenoute

17 The Book of Main Points 
John Bar Penkaye

18 Fourth Letter to John the Stylite
Jacob of Edessa

19 The Passion of Peter of Capitolias 
20 Excerpts from a Lost Seventh-Century Greek Source,
The Chronicle of Theophanes, The Chronicle of Agapius,
The Chronicle of Michael the Syrian, and The Chronicle of 1234

Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Stephen J. Shoemaker is Professor of Religious Studies and Ira E. Gaston Fellow in Christian Studies at the University of Oregon. He is a specialist on early Christian apocrypha, devotion to the Virgin Mary, and the rise of Islam. He is the author of The Death of a Prophet, The Apocalypse of Empire, and Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion, among many other publications.
 

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