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Author of a Life of
terminus post quem for the
composition of the Life.
The Life has been called ‘a masterpiece of Syriac literature, with a prose of
elegant simplicity’ (Harvey, 34). In Europe it exists in three W.-Syr. mss.:
Berlin Syr. 26 (Sachau 321, 8th cent.), Brit. Libr. Add. 14,622 (9th cent.,
incomplete), and Brit. Libr. Add. 12,174 (dated 1197, written for
Kleyn’s suggestion that Eliya might be identical with Eliya of Dara, whose
life was written by