Title
- ገድል፡ አዝቂር፡ , Gadla ʾAzqir, Acts of ʾAzqir
Description
The hagiographic text is only known in Ethiopic version and transmitted by over twenty manuscripts of the . Though composed in a literary garb, the data provided by this document on the Christianization of South Arabia and the religious situation at the time are matched by epigraphic data and later liter-ary traditions and appear to some extent reliable and of historical value. The narrative refers to events which might have taken place in the time span of AD 470-475. It was translated from Arabic, which in its turn based on most probably Greek or Syriac Vorlage (see also
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- Alessandro Bausi, general editor
- Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor
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