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E.-Syr. poet, writing in Sureth, priest. Born
in
dorekyāthā
: On Divine Economy (1661/2), On
Revealed Truth (a poetic rendering of a Classical Syriac hymn, 1662/3), On
the Life-Giving Words (1666/7), On Parables (1665/6). His poems have been
preserved as a more or less unified corpus in 9 mss. and seem to correspond
to a conscious plan of re-telling the Scriptures in the modern language.
However, the content is not purely narrative, but paraenetic and exegetical
too. The author makes ample use of canonical and apocryphal sources, such as
the Cave of
Treasures (possibly via the ‘Book of the Bee’ by