Mesopotamia
place · 4 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
between the two rivers · بين النهرين
in the texts
Letters
Region cited as home to reportedly perfect ascetic men.
and I hear that there are certain perfect and blessed men also in Mesopotamia.
and that this bishop here, having heard of it, has earnestly written to us to be present in Mesopotamia, and there, having gathered those of like mind who maintain the affairs of the churches, to set out with them to the emperor.
And you surely remember the history, that all Judaea was tributary to David, and the land of Idumaea and the Moabite country, and as much of Syria as bordered on it and what lay farther off as far as Mesopotamia;
On the Nature of the Gods
Region fertilized by the Euphrates.
The Euphrates makes Mesopotamia fertile, into which it carries every year, as it were, new fields.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates, whose legal record under Hammurabi is treated as evidence that communal marriage was unknown there and nearby.
and Hammurabi's leaving mention of it out of the texts of his code indicates that it was not known in his age between the two rivers or in what neighbours them.
Adversus Judaeos
A region named among the places whose inhabitants have believed in Christ.
In whom have the nations believed — the Parthians, the Medes, the Elamites, and those who dwell in Mesopotamia, Armenia, Phrygia, Cappadocia, and those who inhabit Pontus and Asia and Pamphylia, those who reside in Egypt, and those who inhabit the region of Africa beyond Cyrene, Romans and resident foreigners, and then the Jews in Jerusalem, and the other nations — as now the various tribes of the …