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

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Marcian-the-Monk http://syriaca.org/bibl/358 349 http://syriaca.org/person/615 [person] [Monastic author (or authors) of uncertain identity.]

(4th/5th cent.)

Monastic author (or authors) of uncertain identity (he is unlikely to be the Marcian of Theodoret , Historia Philothea [History of the Monks] 3, as Lebon argued). Seven short ascetic texts are transmitted under his name in Syriac, for two of which a Greek original is also known.

Sources

CPG 3885–3900.
J. Lebon (ed. A. Van Roey), Le moine saint Marcien. Étude critique des sources, édition de ses écrits (1968).
A. Van Roey, ‘Marcien’, in DSpir , vol. 10 (1980), 310–1.

Sebastian P. Brock