Preferred Citation: Harvey, Susan Ashbrook. Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and The Lives of the Eastern Saints. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1990 1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3d5nb1n1/

 

B

Baptism, 5 -6, 111

Bardaisan of Edessa, 2 , 97 , 153 n27, 185 n14

Basil of Caesarea, 14 , 101 , 157 n97, 186 n32, 186 n41, 188 n8, 195 n7, 196 n14

Basiliscus, 85

Bassian, 33

Beth Arsham, 33 , 97 , 98

Betrothal to Christ (God), 11 , 12 , 154 n48

See also Christ, as the Heavenly Bridegroom

Bible. See Gospels; New Testament; Old Testament

Syrian understanding of, 4 , 5

Bilingualism, 3 , 40 -42, 164 n63

Bnay and bnat qyama . See Covenanters

Bthula, 7

Byzantine Empire, xi , xv , 3 , 21 , 25 , 34 , 56 , 95

See also Constantinople religious conflict in, 84

 

Preferred Citation: Harvey, Susan Ashbrook. Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and The Lives of the Eastern Saints. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1990 1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3d5nb1n1/