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Bp. of Taḥal (in
Ktābā d-habbābe, possibly an anthology of poetry),
funeral sermons, metrical homilies, questions and answers on the text of
Scripture, various riddles, a treatise related to the fifth volume of
Dall’ ascesi,
71–3), and a commentary on reše d-idaʿtā ‘Kephalaia
gnostica’ (?). None of these works survive. Of his work on Isḥaq of Niniveh
(in which apparently he voiced some criticism of Isḥaq) echoes can be heard
in the later tradition, and it was known to
The question arises whether Daniel bar Ṭubanitha might be the same person as
Ṭubanitha ‘the blessed one’
serving as a synonym for Maryam, the Virgin Mary. This identification, which
was first suggested by Chabot, certainly deserves to be considered, but one
would have to go against the evidence provided by Ishoʿdad and ʿAbdishoʿ
who, as Degen pointed out, clearly saw two distinct Daniels.