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A spring festival in Edessa, 499 CE (1)

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Continuity of “Old Faith” beside Christianity
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.02 Continuity of “Old Faith” beside Christianity
Edessa
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.02 Continuity of “Old Faith” beside Christianity
12.03.02.03 Edessa
Marriage of Nabû (Iyyar/April)
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.01 Public festivals
03.01.02 Marriage of Nabû (Iyyar/April)

Keywords
Edessa
festivals

Period
6th century CE
Byzantine Empire

Channel
Byzantine philosophers and scholars

Text
pseudo-Joshua the Stylite, Chronicle 33:
A demonstration of God’s righteousness was manifested to us at this time, to make us cease our evil way of life. In May of this year, on the day when that wicked pagan festival was to be celebrated, a multitude of locusts came into our country from the south.

Source (list of abbreviations)
pseudo-Joshua the Stylite, Chronicle 33

Bibliography

Greatrex and Watt 1999, 6

Greatrex, Geoffrey and John W. Watt. “One, Two or Three Feasts? The Brytae, the Maiuma and the May Festival at Edessa.” Oriens Christianus 83 (1999) 1-20.

Amar Annus

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