The history of the Holy Mar Maʻin with a guide to the Persian martyr acts /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brock, Sebastian P.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2008.
Edition:	1st Gorgias Press ed.
Series:	Persian martyr acts in Syriac : texts and translation ; v. 1
Subjects:	Maʻin, > approximately 310-approximately 424. Christian martyrs > Iran. Martyrologies. Syriac literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction and outline
Synopsis
Literary models
Date of composition : the linguistic evidence
Fiey's dating of the life
Topography
The chronological data
Historicity
The manuscript
The present edition
Apparatus
Translation
Annotation
A guide to the Persian martyr acts
Syriac texts
Under Vahran II (276-293)
Under Shapur II (309-379)
Late fourth century
Under Yazdgard I (399-420)
Under Vahram V (421-438)
Under Yazdgard II (439-457)
Late fifth century
Under Khosro I (531-579)
Under Khosro I/Hormizd iv/khosro II
Under Khosro II (591-628)
Concordance with Bedjan, AMS II and IV
Early manuscripts
Greek translations
Personal names, excluding biblical
Biblical personal names
Place names (alphabeticized according to the Syriac alphabet)
Names of Persian martyrs listed at the end of British Library, add. 12,150 (copied in Edessa and dated November, AD 411).