Sophrone de Jérusalem: Panégyriques des saints Cyr et Jean. Edited by Pauline Bringel.Sophronius of Jerusalem and Seventh-Century Heresy: The Synodical Letter and Other Documents. Edited by Pauline Allen
Sophronius hovers at the edge of popular consciousness as the bishop (patriarch, indeed) of Jerusalem who invited the conquering Caliph Omar on his entry into the city to pray in the church of the Resurrection; and was answered, with a certain generosity of spirit, that were he to do so his Muslim f...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 1, Pages: 386-389 |
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| Summary: | Sophronius hovers at the edge of popular consciousness as the bishop (patriarch, indeed) of Jerusalem who invited the conquering Caliph Omar on his entry into the city to pray in the church of the Resurrection; and was answered, with a certain generosity of spirit, that were he to do so his Muslim followers would expropriate it. Sophronius, less irenically disposed, uttered under his breath the prophecy, now—he perceived—fulfilled, that the abomination of desolation would appear in the Holy Place. That, at any rate, is the story, as Gibbon tells it, in chapter 51, on the evidence of Theophanes the Chronographer; and it may be true. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp158 |