Kyle A. Smith

The Doctrine of Addai and the Letters of Jesus and Abgar

History & Biography

“Through idiomatic translations of multiple Syriac, Greek, and Latin sources and a concise, yet comprehensive account of the development and transmission of the Abgar legend, Jacob Lollar has provided an invaluable tool for understanding how the Christians of Edessa fused civic history with sacred history to put Roman Mesopotamia at the very forefront of the apostolic tradition.”