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

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Sargis-the-Stylite http://syriaca.org/bibl/481 472 http://syriaca.org/person/81 [person] [Author of a ‘letter’ that addresses dogmatic points; disputant with a Jewish interlocutor.]

(8th cent.) [Syr. Orth.]

A ‘Letter’ attributed to ‘Sargis the Stylite of Gusit’ (near Ḥimṣ ) ‘against a Jew who argued that God has no son, and that God has not begotten’ is preserved in a single ms. of the 8th/9th cent. According to its editor the work must belong to the 8th cent. (and not the late 6th, as had earlier been suggested). It is a literary work based on several sources, among them a collection of testimonia; there is also a section on images (of interest in view of the date). In part the work may also be based on an actual discussion with a Jew.

Sources

A. P. Hayman, The Disputation of Sergius the Stylite against a Jew (CSCO 338–9; 1973).
A. P. Hayman ‘The Biblical text in the Disputation of Sergius the Stylite against a Jew’, in The Peshitta, its use in Literature and Liturgy, ed. B. ter Haar Romeny (2006), 77–86.

Sebastian P. Brock