Eliya (late 8th/early 9th cent.)
author: Sebastian P. Brock
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
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Eliya (late 8th/early 9th cent.)

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Eliya-late-8th-early-9th-cent http://syriaca.org/bibl/200 191 http://syriaca.org/person/945 [person] [Author of a long letter addressed to his friend Leon of Ḥarran, in which he gives reason why he left the Melkite Church for the Syr. Orth.]

[Syr. Orth.]

Author of a long letter, in twelve sections, addressed to his friend Leon of Ḥarran , synkellos of the Chalcedonian bp. of Ḥarran , in which he gives reasons why he left the Melkite Church for the Syr. Orth. Nothing else is known of his identity or life; since he quotes a work of 743 by John of Damascus , he must have been writing after that date. The letter survives in a single ms. of the 9th/10th cent. (now divided between Rome, Vat. Syr. 145, and London, Brit. Libr. Add. 17,197).

Sources

A. Van Roey, ‘La lettre apologétique d’Élie à Léon, syncelle de l’évêque chalcédonien de Ḥarran. Une apologie monophysite du VIIIe–IXe siècle’, LM 57 (1944), 1–52.
A. Van Roey, ‘Trois auteurs chalcédoniens syriens: Georges de Martyropolis, Constantin et Léon de Ḥarran’, OLP 3 (1972), 125–53.
A. Van Roey, Eliae Epistula apologetica ad Leonem, syncellum Harranensem (CSCO 469–70; 1985). (Syr. with LT)

Sebastian P. Brock