TY - JOUR
TI - The Syriac Book of the Laws of the Countries, Eusebius’ Preparation for the Gospel, and the Clementine Recognitions: Early Witnesses for Christianity in Central Asia?
AU - Andrade, Nathanael
TI - The Syriac Book of the Laws of the Countries, Eusebius’ Preparation for the Gospel, and the Clementine Recognitions: Early Witnesses for Christianity in Central Asia?
AB - In a key passage of the Syriac Book of the Laws of the Countries, Christians are described as residing among the Medes, Persians, Parthians, and Kushans. This statement has sometimes encouraged scholars to accept that Christianity had penetrated the Iranian plateau and central Asia by the early third century CE. But this testimony does not necessarily reflect the actual state of contemporary Christianity in such regions. Instead, it is based on a text that had been circulating in the eastern Mediterranean and upper Mesopotamia during the late second and early third centuries CE. This text, now lost, had ascribed the evangelization of such regions to the apostle Thomas.
VL - 2015
IS - Volume 22
PY - 2015
SN - 1897-3426
C1 - 2084-3909
SP - 159
EP - 171
DO - 10.4467/20800909EL.15.009.3947
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/electrum/article/the-syriac-book-of-the-laws-of-the-countries-eusebius-preparation-for-the-gospel-and-the-clementine-recognitions-early-witnesses-for-christianity-in-central-asia
KW - Book of the Laws of the Countries
KW - Eusebius
KW - Clementine Recognitions
KW - the apostle Thomas
KW - central Asia
KW - the Parthian empire
KW - Christianity.