For our discussion this week, we will be reading excerpts from the Chronicle of

For our discussion this week, we will be reading excerpts from the Chronicle of Seert. The Chronicle of Seert is a universal history, written in Arabic. Some of the text has been lost but surviving sections cover the periods of c.251–423 and c.483–650.
As we learned from Frankopan, the Sasanian empire subjected its Christian subjects to persecution after the death of Constantine (Frankopan 2016, 59). Philip Wood argues that it “is difficult to estimate the size of this Christian community, or to enumerate or quantify the persecutions it suffered, but these events provided the major source of the Christian community’s self-identity” (Wood 2013, 1). This week we will be looking at some of the martyrdom texts. Answer the question: “What do we learn about the spread of Christianity to the Sassanian Empire from these martyrdom texts?”
Work Cited
Frankopan, Peter. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World. First American ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Wood, Philip. The chronicle of Seert Christian Historical Imagination in Late Antique Iraq. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.