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Michael L. Payne
Michael L. Payne is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut français du Proche-Orient in Beirut.
Three Persian Martyr Acts
The Acts of Miles, Bishop of Susa, the Priest Abursam, and Deacon Sinai, The Martyrdom of Zebina and his Companions, and The Martyrdom of the Forty Martyrs of Beth Kashkraye
Edited with an Introduction by Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Professor Reyhan Durmaz, Michael L. Payne, Prof. Daniel Picus & Noah Tetenbaum
ISBN: 978-1-4632-4561-0
This volume brings together the texts and translations for three Syriac martyr acts, set in Sasanian Persia during the reign of Shapur II (309-379 CE). These texts offer compelling witness to the challenges of a community’s need to honor memory and experience, and evidence towards the formation and sustenance of Christian identity in the midst of Persian society and culture.
$74.00 $59.20
Jacob of Sarug's Homilies on Women Whom Jesus Met
Edited and Translated by Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Sebastian P. Brock, Professor Reyhan Durmaz, Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos, Michael L. Payne & Prof. Daniel Picus
Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 44
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0580-5
Five homilies by Jacob of Sarug on women whom Jesus met: the Canaanite Woman, the Samaritan Woman, the Hemorrhaging Woman, the Woman Bent Double, and Jairus' Daughter.
$37.00