Yawsep Busnaya
author: Sebastian P. Brock
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
availability: Copyright ©2011 by Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute Distributed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)

Yawsep Busnaya

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yawsep-Busnaya http://syriaca.org/bibl/597 588 http://syriaca.org/person/815 [person] [Monk and spiritual teacher.]

(d. 979) [Ch. of E.]

Monk and spiritual teacher. Born in Beth ʿEdraye, near Mosul , he became a monk of the Monastery of Rabban Hormizd , but subsequently moved to the monastery of Abraham, of Beth Ṣayyare (in the ʿAmadiyya region, N. Iraq). His Life was written by his disciple Yoḥannan bar Kaldun; this not only incorporates much of his spiritual teaching (in chapter 8), but it also gives a detailed picture of monastic life of the time.

Sources

J.-B. Chabot, ‘Vie du moine Rabban Youssef Bousnaya écrite par son disciple Jean bar Kaldoun’, ROC 2 (1897), 357–405; 3 (1898), 77–121, 168–90, 292–327, 458–80; 4 (1899), 380–415; 5 (1900), 118–43, 182–200. (FT)
V. van Vossel, ‘La spiritualité monastique syro-orientale du début du moyen âge selon l’histoire de Raban Youssif Busnaya’, Patrimoine syriaque 6 (1999), 149–86.
U. Zanetti, ‘Les saints moines: témoignages et vies’, Patrimoine syriaque 6 (1999), 189–209.

Sebastian P. Brock