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The Church Fathers · c. 400

The Doctrine of Addai

Anonymous

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What it is

An expanded telling of how Edessa was converted: Abgar's letter to Jesus and the reply, and now a court painter sent to bring back a portrait, the apostle Addai preaching and healing the king, and the finding of the true cross by Protonike before Helena.

Why it lasted

The charter of Syriac Christianity in its developed form, and the origin of the image of Edessa — the portrait not made by hands that lies behind the whole Eastern theology of the icon.

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Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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