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Mara bar 'Serapion, (), sometimes spelled ''Mara bar Sarapion'', was an Assyrian Stoic philosopher in the Roman province of Syria. He is only known from a letter he wrote in Syriac to his son, who was also named Serapion,〔''The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown: An Introduction to the New Testament'' by Andreas J. Köstenberger, L. Scott Kellum 2009 ISBN 978-0-8054-4365-3 page 110〕〔''Evidence of Greek Philosophical Concepts in the Writings of Ephrem the Syrian'' by Ute Possekel 1999 ISBN 90-429-0759-2 pages 29-30〕 which allegedly refers to Jesus Christ. The letter indicates that Mara's homeland was Samosata, i.e. modern-day Samsat, Turkey (on the west bank of the Euphrates), but his captivity appears to have been in Seleucia, in modern-day Iraq (on the west bank of the Tigris River).〔''The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature'' edited by Frances Young, Lewis Ayres, Andrew Louth ISBN 0521460832 page 168〕 Mara's captivity took place after the AD 72 annexation of Samosata by the Romans, but before the third century.〔''The Middle East under Rome'' by Maurice Sartre, Catherine Porter and Elizabeth Rawlings (Apr 22, 2005) ISBN 0674016831 page 293〕 Most scholars date it to shortly after AD 73 during the first century.〔 ==The letter to his son== Mara's letter to his son begins with: "Mara, son of Serapion, to Serapion, my son: peace." The letter was composed sometime between 73 AD and the 3rd century.〔 There were three cases when captives were taken from Samosata, in 72 AD by the Romans, in 161/162 by Parthians and in 256 by Sasanians and various scholars have presented arguments for each date.〔 Robert Van Voorst (who himself thinks the letter was composed in the second century) states that most scholars date the letter to shortly after AD 73 during the first century.〔 The letter is preserved in a 6th- or 7th-century manuscript (''BL Add.'' 14658) held by the British Library.〔 Nineteenth-century records state that the manuscript containing this text was one of several manuscripts obtained by Henry Tattam from the monastery of St. Mary Deipara in the Nitrian Desert of Egypt and acquired by the Library in 1843.〔 "The manuscripts arrived at the British Museum on the first of March 1843, and this portion of the collection is now numbered Add. 14,425--14,739." BL Add. 14,658 is included among these manuscripts.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mara bar Serapion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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