Alberto Rigolio

The Doctrine of Addai and the Letters of Jesus and Abgar

History & Biography

“This excellent book is much more than a fresh translation of a foundational piece of Syriac literature—the earliest narrative on the arrival of Christianity to Edessa. The volume also comprises a sophisticated commentary, as well as the first systematic study of several inscriptions and papyri that attest the Doctrine, and of its textual afterlife over centuries. Jacob Lollar’s work reshapes our understanding of the history of the Doctrine, its far-reaching impact on early Christians, and the role it played in later Syriac literature.”