| |
| | The Land Called Holy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | By Barhebraeus’ time, the various Christian communities that had established themselves in Palestine in the fourth century, including Georgians, Armenians, Greeks, Syrians, Arabs, and Latin-speakers, could welcome their countrymen from home only after the latter had been escorted through the perilous countryside by Muslim dragoman-guides. |
 | | Barhebraeus’ Ethicon, written in Azerbaijan in 1279, voices the same Christian uneasiness about pilgrimage to the Holy Land that Gregory of Nyssa expressed, and that was to explode three centuries later in the Latin West. |
 | | Barhebraeus was a polymath, learned in classical philosophy, Christian theology, and Arabic literature. |
| www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9312/articles/young.html (3278 words) |
|