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Rhodopa and Early Christianity by Tchervenkova, Ginka I. is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Rhodopa and Early Christianity about?

It has become a trend to present Rhodopa as a "blank" region in history. Yet this trend represents an inaccurate picture of the past. As a result, Rhodopa is currently an area that requires more research. This article addresses this need. It traces some of the sources on the Rhodopean pre-Christian and early Christian past. It then presents some evidence of the preaching of Jesus's apostles in Rhodopa, as well as a discussion of the language of Rhodopa's early Christians. After outlining the structure of the Diocese of Rhodopa, the article focusses on the diocese's relations with the Holy Land and North-Eastern Africa (e.g. Ethiopia, Egypt). The article places the presented data within the broader context of the fourth to sixth century in discussing Constantine's fifty Bibles, the Council of Serdica, the Biblia Bessica, and the Bessi's churches in the Holy Land, as an instrument of the Eastern Roman Empire's Christianisation policy. Some questions of both segmental and universal Christian value are addressed.

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It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Arts and Humanities.

Author
Tchervenkova, Ginka I.
Publisher
Informa UK (Taylor & Francis); Informa UK Limited (ISSN 2222-582X)
Published
2019
Language
EN
Field
Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

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