Yeshuʿ bar Khayrun (1275–1335) [Syr. Orth.]
Author. He was born in 1275 in Ḥaḥ (Ṭur ʿAbdin) as the son of the teacher and priest Ṣlibo, son of the priest Isḥoq bar Khayrun. In 1299 he became monk in a monastery dedicated to Mary in the neighborhood of Manazgirt (to the north of Lake Van) and priest. Later on, he lived with his father in the Monastery of the Water-Drop (Dayro d-Noṭpho; Arab. Dayr al-Nāṭif or al-Qaṭra), which looks down on Dayr al-Zaʿfarān. He died there on 19 Aug. 1335. He is the author of several poems, a number of which are of liturgical content, as well as of Rules for priests and deacons, and a commentary to the Lexicon of Bar Bahlul. According to the 15th-cent. author Dawid Puniqoyo (known in Arabic as Dāwūd al-Ḥimṣī) he is one of the three men who after the demise of Syriac literature distinguished themselves through their writings (Graf). In addition, Yeshuʿ copied a number of Syriac manuscripts. His father Ṣlibo is also known as an author and copyist.
Sources
- Baumstark, Literatur, 327.
- Barsoum, Scattered pearls, 489–91.
- Graf, GCAL, vol. 2, 281. (‘Yašūʿ ibn Ğabrūn’ should be read: Khayrūn).
- H. Kaufhold, ‘Über zwei westsyrische Schriftsteller des 14. Jahrhunderts: Ješūʿ (Īšōʿ) bar Ḫairūn und sein Vater Ṣlīḇō’, in Syrisches Christentum weltweit. Studien zur syrischen Kirchengeschichte. Festschrift Wolfgang Hage, ed. M. Tamcke, W. Schwaigert, and E. Schlarb (1995), 116–26.
- A. Vööbus, ‘Īšō bar Kirūn. A supplement to the history of Syriac literature’, OCP 38 (1972), 253–5.