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The Church Fathers · c. 540–544
The Synodical Canons
Mar Aba I · d. 552
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What it is
Rulings by a convert from Zoroastrianism who became patriarch, chiefly on marriage law, forbidding the close-kin unions customary in Persian society.
Why it lasted
The foundation of the Church of the East's canon law, and evidence of a Christianity negotiating life inside a hostile empire rather than a friendly one.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
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