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

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Shemun-of-Edessa http://syriaca.org/bibl/514 505 http://syriaca.org/person/80 [person] [Author of a work on ‘the return [of the Captivity from] Babylon, and on the Weeks of Daniel’.]

(6th cent.?) [Syr. Orth.]

Author of a work on ‘the return [of the Captivity from] Babylon, and on the Weeks of Daniel’, known from a single ms. where he is described as ‘nosok[omos] (infirmarian)... of Edessa ’. The work, whose end is lost, is primarily concerned with chronological problems, reconciling and interpreting the beginnings and ends of Jeremiah’s ‘70 years’ (Jer 25:11–12), Daniel’s ‘70 weeks’ (Dan 9:24–5) and the ‘three weeks’ of his fast (Dan 10:2). Eusebius ’s Chronicle is the only source specifically mentioned.

Sources

A. K. Fenz, Der Daniel-Memra des Simeon von Edessa (Heiligenkreuzer Studienreihe 1; 1980). (photographic ed., GT, and commentary [not very helpful])
R. Köbert, ‘Zur Daniel-Abhandlung des Simeon von Edessa’, Biblica 63 (1982), 63–78. (with an improved GT)

Sebastian P. Brock