Shemʿun of Edessa (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)

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