The Book of the Laws of the Countries

The Book of the Laws of the Countries[1][2] is a dialogue of the Syrian theologian and writer Bardaisan with his students composed in Syriac in the early third century. The Book of the Laws deals with the issue of free will and its relation to fate, and astrology.[3] It is a product of the School of Bardaisan of Edessa[4] in the Kingdom of Osroene. The account of the flood at Edessa in 201 A. D. preserved in the Chronicle of Edessa, fragments of Bardaisan's work preserved by later polemicists and the Book of the Laws from the School of Bardaisan are all from the early third century and of assured Edessene origin, providing the earliest unambiguous evidence for Christianity in Edessa.[5]

References

  1. ^ Bardesanes (Edessenus) (1965). The Book of the Laws of Countries: Dialogue on Fate of Bardaiṣan of Edessa. Van Gorcum & Comp.
  2. ^ The book of the laws of countries; dialogue on fate of Bardaiṣan of Edessa. Internet Archive. Assen, Van Gorcum. 1965.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ Rigolio, Alberto (2019). Christians in Conversation: A Guide to Late Antique Dialogues in Greek and Syriac. Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity Ser. Oxford: Oxford University Press USA - OSO. pp. 51–55. ISBN 978-0-19-091545-2.
  4. ^ Possekel, Ute (1999). Evidence of Greek philosophical concepts in the writings of Ephrem the Syrian. Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium Subsidia. Lovanii: Peeters. pp. 20–32. ISBN 978-90-429-0759-1.
  5. ^ Brock, Sebastian (1992). "Eusebius and Syriac Christianity". In Attridge, Harold W. (ed.). Eusebius, Christianity and Judaism. Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press. p. 224. ISBN 978-0-8143-2361-8.
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