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184 Notes to Chapter 988. AMS II, p. 52; Braun, Ausgewählte Akten, p. 1.89. See the apt summary in the martyrdom of the bishop Akebshema: AMSII, p. 361; Braun, Ausgewählte Akten, p. 116.90. A good example is Martha, the daughter of Pusai (who was martyred beforeher), whom the judge strongly urges: “You are a young girl, and a very prettyone at that. Go and find a husband, get married and have children; do not holdon to the disgusting pretext of the covenant [the vow of virginity]!” (AMS II, pp.236f.; Braun, Ausgewählte Akten, p. 78f.).91. Quotation in Asmussen, “Christians in Iran,” p. 939 with n. 4; see also Asmussen,“Das Christentum in Iran,” pp. 15f. Furthermore the quotation in IanGillman and Hans-Joachim Klimkeit, Christians in Asia before 1500, Ann Arbor:University of Michigan Press, 1999, p. 115: “The Christians also profess anothererror. They say that God, who created heaven and earth, was born of a virginnamed Mary, whose husband was called Joseph.”92. Asmussen, Christians in Iran, p. 937.93. AMS II, p. 191; Braun, Ausgewählte Akten, p. 45; AMS II, p. 206; Braun,Ausgewählte Akten, p. 56 (the former refers to the sentence on the sixth hour ofFriday, the latter to the execution on the ninth hour).94. AMS II, p. 177; Braun, Ausgewählte Akten, p. 36.95. AMS II, p. 557; Braun, Ausgewählte Akten, pp. 162 (a Friday in November),184 (a Friday in August), 219.96. Mt. 27:62–66. John has the interesting detail that Mary believes that thegardener might secretly have taken away Jesus’ body (John 20:15).97. AMS II, p. 56; Braun, Ausgewählte Akten, p. 4.98. AMS II, p. 374; Braun, Ausgewählte Akten, p. 125.99. AMS II, pp. 390f.; Braun, Ausgewählte Akten, p. 136. I thank AdamBecker for helping me clarify this passage.100. Paul Bedjan, Histoire de Mar-Jabalaha, de trois autres patriarches, d’unprêtre et de deux laiques nestoriens, Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1895, pp. 551f.;Braun, Ausgewählte Akten, p. 271.101. See also AMS II, p. 206; Braun, Ausgewählte Akten, p. 56; AMS II, p.557; Braun, Ausgewählte Akten, p. 162; and AMS IV, p. 198; Braun, AusgewählteAkten, pp. 176f.102. This is not to say that the relationship between Jews and Christians inthe Persian Empire was exclusively antagonistic; on the contrary. On the