Electronic Publication/s monograph Yuri Stoyanov Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse 819.Band ISBN-13: 978-3-7001-6957-4 ISBN-13 Online: 978-3-7001-7169-0 Subject Area: Oriental Studies refereed - online - print

Preliminaries page 1

Table of Contents page 3

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Introduction page 5

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Chapter 1: The Archaeology of the Persian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and the Written Sources page 11

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Chapter 2: Christian Ideology of Warfare in the East Roman/Byzantine World and Sasanian Persia page 25

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Chapter 3: Xusraw II’s Wartime Persia (603-628): the Religious and Apocalyptic Enemy page 45

Bibliography page 77