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Threat of the Chaldean arts to Christianity in Edessa (1)

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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
Horoscopes
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.01 Astrological and astronomical knowledge and theories
05.01.10 Astronomical and astrological texts
05.01.10.11 Horoscopes
Zodiac
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.01 Astrological and astronomical knowledge and theories
05.01.04 Zodiac

Keywords
Christianity
magic
omens

Period
4th century CE
Byzantine Empire

Channel
Christian-Syriac philosophers and scholars

Text
Doctrina Addai:
Be ye indeed also removed from … magic arts, which are without mercy, and from soothsaying and divination, and fortune-tellers and from fate and nativities, in which the erring Chaldeans boast, and from planets and signs of the zodiac, on which the foolish trust.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Doctrina Addai

Bibliography

Green 1992, 84

Green, Tamara. The City of the Moon God, Religious Traditions of Harran. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 114. Leiden, New York, Cologne: E. J. Brill 1992.

Amar Annus

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