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Artifact Analysis
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- The Mandylion of Edessa and the Letter of Abgar
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An image of the face of Jesus that reportedly healed the sick king Abgar when he sent a plea for help to Jesus.-
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- Bibliography
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- Drijvers, Han J. W. "Facts and Problems in Early Syriac-Speaking Christianity." Second Century: A Journal of Early Christian Studies 2:3 (1982) 157-75.
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- --------. "Jews and Christians at Edessa." Journal of Jewish Studies 36:1 (1985) 88-102.
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- Griffith, Sidney H. "The Doctrina Addai as a Paradigm of Christian Thought in Edessa in the Fifth Century." Hugoye 6:2 (2003). Online, http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol6No2/HV6N2Griffith.html.
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- Karaulashvili, Irma. "King Abgar of Edessa and the Concept of a Ruler Chosen by God." In Monotheistic Kingship: The Medieval Variants (ed. Aziz Al-Azmeh and János M. Bak; Central European University Department of Medieval Studies, Pasts Incorporated: CEU Studies in the Humanities, and Archaeolingua; Budapest: Akaprint; 2004) 173-90.
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- Mirkovic, Alexander. Prelude to Constantine: The Abgar Tradition in Early Christianity. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.
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- Nicolotti, Andrea. From the Mandylion of Edessa to the Shroud of Turin: The Metamorphosis and Manipulation of a Legend, Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 1. Boston: Brill, 2014.
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- Palmer, Andrew. "King Abgar of Edessa, Eusebius and Constantine." In Sacred Centre as the Focus of Political Interest: Proceedings of the Symposium Held on the Occasion of the 375th Anniversary of the University of Groningen, 5-8 March 1989 (ed. Hans Bakker; Groningen, Netherlands: Egbert Forsten, 1992) 3-29.
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- Ramelli, Ilaria. "Possible Historical Traces in the Doctrina Addai." Hugoye 9:1 (2006). Online, http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol9No1/HV9N1Ramelli.html.
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- Wilson, Ian. Holy Faces, Secret Places: The Quest for Jesus' True Likeness. London: Doubleday, 1991.
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- Wolf, Gerhard. "From Mandylion to Veronica: Picturing the 'Disembodied' Face and Disseminating the True Image of Christ in the Latin West." In The Holy Face and the Paradox of Representation (ed. Herbert Kessler and Gerhard Wolf; Villa Spelman Studies 6; Bologna: Nova Alfa, 1998) 153-79.
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- Youtie, Herbert C. "Gothenburg Papyrus 21 and the Coptic Version of the Letter to Abgar." Harvard Theological Review 24:1 (1931) 61-5.
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- -------. "Gothenburg Papyrus and the Letter to Abgar." Harvard Theological Review 23:4 (1930) 299-302.
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