The Doctrine of Addai and the Letters of Jesus and Abgar by Jacob A. Lollar (review) / Eva María Rodrigo Gómez in Journal of Early Christian Studies, n°3 (2025)

Public ISBD [article]  inJournal of Early Christian Studies > n°3 (2025) . - pp. 477-479 Titre : The Doctrine of Addai and the Letters of Jesus and Abgar by Jacob A. Lollar (review) Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Eva María Rodrigo Gómez, Auteur Année de publication : 2025 Article en page(s) : pp. 477-479 Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : Jacob A. Lollar furnishes us with a handy English translation of the mythical (in more than one sense) Doctrine of Addai and the correspondence between Jesus and King Abgar. This book starts with a useful introduction, where Lollar presents the work, giving a summary; the main theories about the provenance, date, and authorship; a diagram with a proposal of the transmission of the Addai legend; the historical context in which it was written and transmitted; its use of scripture; a description of the manuscripts that preserve the text, together with other witnesses of this tradition; and finally mention of modern translations, [End Page 477] of which this would be the fifth one in English, the previous one published as recently as 2021 by J. E. Walters in his Eastern Christianity: A Reader (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2021). [article] The Doctrine of Addai and the Letters of Jesus and Abgar by Jacob A. Lollar (review) [texte imprimé] / Eva María Rodrigo Gómez, Auteur . - 2025 . - pp. 477-479. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of Early Christian Studies > n°3 (2025) . - pp. 477-479 Résumé : Jacob A. Lollar furnishes us with a handy English translation of the mythical (in more than one sense) Doctrine of Addai and the correspondence between Jesus and King Abgar. This book starts with a useful introduction, where Lollar presents the work, giving a summary; the main theories about the provenance, date, and authorship; a diagram with a proposal of the transmission of the Addai legend; the historical context in which it was written and transmitted; its use of scripture; a description of the manuscripts that preserve the text, together with other witnesses of this tradition; and finally mention of modern translations, [End Page 477] of which this would be the fifth one in English, the previous one published as recently as 2021 by J. E. Walters in his Eastern Christianity: A Reader (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2021).

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