The Acts of Ma¯r Ma¯r¯ı the Apostle Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Greco-Roman World JohnT.Fitzgerald,GeneralEditor Editorial Board DavidArmstrong ElizabethAsmis BrianE.Daley,S.J. DavidG.Hunter DavidKonstan MargaretM.Mitchell MichaelJ.Roberts JohanC.Thom JamesC.VanderKam Number TheActsofMa¯rMa¯r¯ıtheApostle VolumeEditor SusanAshbrookHarvey The Acts of Ma¯r Ma¯r¯ı the Apostle TranslatedwithanIntroductionandNotesby Amir Harrak SocietyofBiblicalLiterature Atlanta THEACTSOFMA¯RMA¯RI¯ THEAPOSTLE Copyright©bytheSocietyofBiblicalLiterature. Allrightsreserved. Nopartofthisworkmaybereproducedortransmittedinanyformorbyany means,electronicormechanical,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orby means of any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be ex- presslypermittedbytheCopyrightActorinwritingfromthepublisher. RequestsforpermissionshouldbeaddressedinwritingtotheRightsandPer- missionsDepartment,SocietyofBiblicalLiterature,HoustonMillRoad, Suite,Atlanta,GA,USA. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData ActsofMarMari.English. TheactsofMa¯rMa¯r¯ıtheapostle/translatedfromSyriacwithanintro- ductionandnotesbyAmirHarrak. p.cm.--(WritingsfromtheGreco-Romanworld;) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-:----(paperbinding:alk.paper) ISBN-:---(paperbinding:alk.paper) . Mari, Saint. . Christian saints--Syria. . Christian saints--Iraq. . Churchhistory--Primitiveandearlychurch,ca.-. I.Harrak,Amir. II.Title.III.Series. BS.MAb .(cid:1)–dc [B]  — ThebookisprintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica onrecycled,acid-freepaper. Table of Contents Abbreviations vii Maps ix Introduction xi A.TheManuscripts xii B.TheDateof theActsof M(cid:1)rM(cid:1)r(cid:2) xiv C.TheAuthor xvii D.Sourcesof theActsofM(cid:1)rM(cid:1)r(cid:2) xix . TheTeachingofAddai xix . EusebiusofCaesarea xxi . TheBible xxi . TheMesopotamianLegacy xxii . OtherSources xxvi E.LiteraryConsiderations xxvii F.M(cid:1)rM(cid:1)r(cid:2)andtheChristianizationofMesopotamia xxxiii G.ThePresentTranslation xxxvii The Acts of M(cid:1)r M(cid:1)r(cid:2): Text and Translation  Appendix: M(cid:1)r M(cid:1)r(cid:2) in Liber Turris  List of Variants  Bibliography  Indices Indexof BiblicalCitations  Indexof PlaceNames  Indexof PersonalNames  SubjectIndex  Abbreviations    Abbeloos,Acta Abbeloos, “Acta Sancti Maris,” AnBoll  ():– ActsofThomas Klijn,TheActsofThomas (cid:1)Amr Gismondi,Maris,AmrietSalibae Bedjan,Acta Bedjan,ActaMartyrumetSanctorumSyr- iace Eusebius,Hist.eccl. Eusebius,Historiaecclesiastica(trans. Lake, LoebClassicalLibrary) LiberTurris Gismondi,Maris,Amri,etSalibae M(cid:2)r(cid:3) Gismondi,Maris,Amri,etSalibae Raabe,Geschichte Die Geschichte des Dominus Mâri, eines ApostelsdesOrients (cid:4)al(cid:3)b(cid:2) Gismondi,Maris,Amri,etSalibae TeachingofAddai Phillips, Doctrine (reproduced with trans- lationin Howard, TheTeaching ofAddai) Y(cid:1)qʉt,Mu(cid:1)jam Y(cid:1)qʉtal-(cid:4)amaw(cid:2),Mu(cid:1)jamal-Buld(cid:2)n(pub- lishedbyD(cid:1)r(cid:5)(cid:1)dir)    AnBoll AnalectaBollandiana ARAM ARAMSocietyforSyro-Mesopotamian Studies CSCO CorpusScriptorumChristianorumOrien- talium JNES JournalofNearEasternStudies JournaloftheCSSS Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies LCL LoebClassicalLibrary Parolede l’Orient Kaslik SBLTT Society of Biblical Literature Texts and Translations viii (cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:2)    A Abbeloos,Acta B Bedjan,Acta CB Raabe,Geschichte Babylonia: Cradle of Mesopotamian Christianity The Near East During the First Centuries of Our Era