Isidore of Pelusium
author: Sebastian P. Brock
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
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Isidore of Pelusium

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Isidore-of-Pelusium http://syriaca.org/bibl/301 292 http://syriaca.org/person/564 [person] [Greek author of 2000 short letters.]

(late 4th/5th cent.)

Greek author of 2000 short letters. His learning and exegesis was praised by Severus who quotes from several Letters (Contra Grammaticum, III.39). The Syriac translation of a collection of 126 letters is preserved; this is of interest for the textual history of the Greek text (see especially Letter 1278, ed. Évieux).

Sources

CPG 5557–5558.
P. Évieux, Isidore de Péluse, Lettres, vol. I (SC 422, 1997), 153–5, 171–2. (on the Syriac translation)

Sebastian P. Brock