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Theodoros Abū Qurra
(probably d. after 829) [Melk.] Contributor:
Aaron M.
Butts
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Theodoros-Abu-Qurra
Theodoros Abū ... Qurra
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Theodoros Abu -Qurra
http://syriaca.org/bibl/554
545
... ...r, bp. of
Ḥarran
. Little is definitively known about the life of Theodoros
Abū Qurra. He was likely born in
Edessa
toward th... the life of Theodoros
Abū Qurra. He was likely born in
Edessa
toward th... the life of Theodoros
Abū Qurra. He was likely born in
Edessa
toward th... ...Chronicle,
Michael Rabo
(d. 1199) reports that Abū
Qurra was deposed from his see by Theodoret, the Melk.
... ... challenged (see Lamoreaux 2005, xiii–xv). In the Chronicle of
Michael Rabo, Abū Qurra is also said to have travelled to Armenia where he
debated with the S...
2
Ṭur ʿAbdin ...
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Tur Abdin
http://syriaca.org/bibl/574
565
... ...
Properly speaking, Ṭur ʿAbdin (‘Mountain of the servants’) does not include
the whole province of
... ... Tigris and
Nisibis
. The first bp. of Ṭur ʿAbdin ... resided at Ḥaḥ, a town in
the north-east of Ṭur ʿAbdin , far from the center of the diocese. Ḥaḥ used
to be much bigger than it is ... ... resided at Ḥaḥ, a town in
the north-east of Ṭur ʿAbdin , far from the center of the diocese. Ḥaḥ used
to be much bigger than it is ... ... resided at Ḥaḥ, a town in
the north-east of Ṭur ʿAbdin , far from the center of the diocese. Ḥaḥ used
to be much bigger than it is ... ...cese. In 613 Daniel ʿUzoyo became bp. of the united dioceses of
Dara and Ṭur ʿAbdin , to which, for a while, were added those of Tella and
...
3
List of Patriarchs: II. The Syriac Orthodox Church and its Uniate continuationsContributor:
...
Abraham ]
... ...
Abrohom
962 – 963
... ...
Yuḥanon (VII) bar ʿAbdun
1004 – 1030
... ...
Yuḥanon VIII (IX) bar ʿAbdun
1042 (1048?) – 1057... ...
Athanasios (VII) Abulfaraj bar Kamoro
1090 – 1... ...
Abrohom II
Gharīb
(Ignatius VI... ...
The Patriarchate of Ṭur ʿAbdin (1364 – 1816)
See Fiey, Pour un Oriens
... ...tius
Masʿūd
(of Ṭur ʿAbdin )
Zazoyo
...
4
Ibn al-Ṭayyib
(d. 1043) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Aaron M.
Butts
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Ibn-al-Tayyib
...heologian, exegete, physician, translator, and
philosopher. His full name is Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al-Ṭayyib
al-ʿIrāqī.
... al-Faraj ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al-Ṭayyib
al-ʿIrāqī.
... ...heologian, exegete, physician, translator, and philosopher. His full
name is Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al‑Ṭayyib al-ʿIrāqī. He worked at the
ʿAḍūdiyya Hospital in
... al-Faraj ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al‑Ṭayyib al-ʿIrāqī. He worked at the
ʿAḍūdiyya Hospital in
... al-Faraj ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al‑Ṭayyib al-ʿIrāqī. He worked at the
ʿAḍūdiyya Hospital in
... ...4). Ibn al-Ṭayyib’s students include ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā
al-kaḥḥāl (d. after 1010), Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī (d. 1044), and Ibn Buṭlān
(d. 1066). He was also a conte...
5
List of Patriarchs: I. The Church of the East and its Uniate continuationsContributor:
...
Aba
I
... ...
Aba II
of Kashkar
... ...
Abraham II
837 – 850
... ...
Yoḥannan IV bar Abgare
... ...
Abraham III Abraza
905 – 936/7
... III Abraza
905 – 936/7
... III Abraza
905 – 936/7
...
6
ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha
Ebedjesus (d. 1318) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Jeff W.
Childers
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Abdisho-bar-Brikha
ʿAbdishoʿ ... bar Brikha
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org Abdisho -bar-Brikha
http://syriaca.org/bibl/14
5
... ...(d. 1318) [Ch. of E.]
Bp. and scholar. ʿAbdishoʿ was bp. of Sinjar and
Beth ʿArbaye
,
... ...His metrical ‘Catalogue of Books’ is an
invaluable repository of information about the authors and works of the
Syriac literary heritage, including many that ... ...yta, The Nomocanon, or
Collection of Synodical Canons of Mar Abdisho bar Brikha,
Metropolitan of Nisibis and Armenia (1918).
... ... I. Perczel, The Nomocanon of
Metropolitan Abdisho of Nisibis. A facsimile edition of ms
64 from the collecti... ... Ecclesiasticorum, collectus, dispositus, ordinatus a Mar
Abdisho Metropolita Nisibis et Armeniae
(S. Congregazione per la Chiesa... ... 3–362.
J. Habbi, Catalogus Auctorum: ʿAbdishoʿ
Sob. (1986).
G. P. Badger...
7
... http://syriaca.org/place/137
place
Principal town of Ṭur ʿAbdin , situated at the geographical
center of the region
... ... Medyad
Principal town of
Ṭur ʿAbdin
,
situated at the geographical center of the region... ...enter of a subdistrict (nahiye, later kaza) covering the central
part of Ṭur ʿAbdin and it is today the administrative center of a district
(ilçe) within t... ...el ca. 3 km. to the west.
An early ascetic associated with Midyat is the stylite Abel (Hobil, end of
5th cent.), who, according to the ‘Life of Samuel of Qarṭmin... ...s
of Mabbug
. The monastery built on the site of Abel’s pillar and
originally known by his name came to be better known under the n... ... originally known by his name came to be better known under the name of Mor
Abrohom after the relics of Abraham after the relics of Abrohom
8
... Coakley's Manuscripts entry
Coakley, ‘Manuscripts’,
above , 262–64
, and, in greater detail, A. Desreumaux, Répertoire des bibliothèques et des... ...
Or. oct. 1257:
Abgar the Hagiographer
... ... Dayr al-Suryān
General:
Aba
|
Mushe of Nisibis
... ... Syr. 4:
Monastery of Beth ʿAbe
Syr. 709... ...
Add. 12,167:
Aba
Add. 12,... ...
Add. 14,726:
Aba
|
Anṭun of Tagrit
... ...
Add. 17,194:
Aba
Add. 17,... ...
Add. 17,270:
Abraham bar Dashandad
...
9
Martyrs and persecutionsContributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Martyrs-and-persecutions
...secutions
survive, especially for the former (some of these are by a certain Abgar ; there is also an account in
Theodoret
’s Eccl... ...eventually martyred in 542), the learned Cath.
Aba
(540–552), two
women martyrs, Shirin (558/9) and G... ... great popularity in Greek and Latin.
The earliest and most detailed information about persecution and martyrdoms
in
Nagran
... ...solated martyrdoms and the
majority of martyrdoms took place under the early Abbasids , in particular
during the caliphates of al-Manṣūr (754–75) and al-Mahdī (77... ... Shemʿun II,
Mafryono of
Ṭur ʿAbdin
(1740). Records, if they exist, of massacres and m... ... Shlemun Henno, Gunḥe d-Suryoye d-Ṭur
ʿAbdin (1987).
ʿAbdmshiḥo Naʿman d-Qarahbash, Dmo
zliḥo (1987, 1989; GT 2002).
... ... Naʿman Aydin, Gedše w-šabṭe d-Ṭur
ʿAbdin (1997).
Asmar al-Khoury, Ṣulfoto qašyoto d-ʿal
...
10
al-Ṣalīb, Dayr
Dayro da-Ṣlibo, Monastery of the Cross [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Hidemi
Takahashi
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/al-Salib-Dayr
...tp://syriaca.org/place/68
place
Monastery and village in Ṭur ʿAbdin .
Dayro da-Ṣlibo, Monastery of the Cross [Syr.... ...rth.]
Monastery and village in
Ṭur ʿAbdin
. Dayr
al-Ṣalīb, also called the Monastery of Beth ... ... Barṣawmo
.
After the Syr. Orth. diocese of Ṭur ʿAbdin was divided into those of Qarṭmin
and Ḥaḥ in 1088, the bishops of Ḥaḥ regul... ...aḥ and Dayro da-Ṣlibo continued as a bishopric
under the patriarchate of Ṭur ʿAbdin . The last metropolitan of Dayr
al-Ṣalīb, Antimus Yaʿqub of Esfes, was kille... ...aḥ and Dayro da-Ṣlibo continued as a bishopric
under the patriarchate of Ṭur ʿAbdin . The last metropolitan of Dayr
al-Ṣalīb, Antimus Yaʿqub of Esfes, was kille... ...aḥ and Dayro da-Ṣlibo continued as a bishopric
under the patriarchate of Ṭur ʿAbdin . The last metropolitan of Dayr
al-Ṣalīb, Antimus Yaʿqub of Esfes, was kille... ...aḥ and Dayro da-Ṣlibo continued as a bishopric
under the patriarchate of Ṭur ʿAbdin . The last metropolitan of Dayr
al-Ṣalīb, Antimus Yaʿqub of Esfes, was kille... ...es and itself became a village
in the 19th cent. In 1892, O. H. Parry found about twenty Syrian families’
living within the monastery with ‘their flocks’. Th...
11
ʿAbdishoʿ bar Bahrīz
(fl. first quarter of 9th cent.) [Ch. of E] Contributor:
Barbara H.
Roggema
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Abdisho-bar-Bahriz
ʿAbdishoʿ ... bar Bahrīz
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org Abdisho -bar-Bahriz
http://syriaca.org/bibl/13
4
... ... ‘Bahrīz’ reveals his Persian descent. Ḥabīb was probably his given name
and ʿAbdishoʿ his ecclesiastical name. Most of our information about
ʿAbdishoʿ derives from Muslim sources, most importantly from Ibn al-Nadīm,
who mentio... ...ic and philosophy, and that
he wrote commentaries on classical works for the Abbasid ...ic and philosophy, and that
he wrote commentaries on classical works for the about
ʿAbdishoʿ derives from Muslim sources, most importantly from Ibn al-Nadīm,
who mentio...
12
Abraham of Kashkar
(ca. 500–588) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Abraham-of-Kashkar
Abraham ... of Kashkar
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org Abraham -of-Kashkar
http://syriaca.org/bibl/24
15
... ... http://syriaca.org/person/320
person
Monk, founder and abbot of the ‘Great Monastery’ on
Mount
Izla.
... ...
(ca. 500–588) [Ch. of E.]
Monk, founder and abbot ... of the ‘Great Monastery’ on Mount Izla. Several
biographical accounts of Abraham’s ... life have been preserved, but since their
primary goal was to establish Abraham’s ... life have been preserved, but since their
primary goal was to establish Abraham’s ... life have been preserved, but since their
primary goal was to establish Abraham’s
13
Abraham of Nathpar
(late 6th – early 7th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Jeff W.
Childers
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Abraham-of-Nathpar
Abraham ... of Nathpar
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org Abraham -of-Nathpar
http://syriaca.org/bibl/25
16
... ...ly 7th cent.) [Ch. of E.]
Monastic author. Very little is known about the life of Abraham . ‘Nathpar’
(in some sources, ‘Nephtar’, or ‘Nephrath’) appears to be the sa... the life of Abraham . ‘Nathpar’
(in some sources, ‘Nephtar’, or ‘Nephrath’) appears to be the sa... the life of Abraham . ‘Nathpar’
(in some sources, ‘Nephtar’, or ‘Nephrath’) appears to be the sa... ... Mosul
in Iraq, and
may designate either Abraham’s ... birthplace or the site of his monastery.
Abraham flourished during the period of monastic revival sweeping the Ch. of
E. due...
14
Gabriel, Monastery of Mor
Monastery of Qarṭmin Contributor:
Andrew N.
Palmer
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Gabriel-Monastery-of-Mor
... http://syriaca.org/place/226
place
Famous monastery in Tur Abdin , founded in the late fourth century.not a summary
... ...rsian raiders on the southern
escarpment of
Ṭur ʿAbdin
, which
rises from the Plain of
... ...tion must be
connected with the Roman frontier-garrison in the Castle of Tur ʿAbdin built
after the Persian raid of 350. The Christian soldiers in the castle h... ...p. when the Persian Conquest created
vacancies on four sees in the area; the abbot of Qarṭmin was asked to fill
them all until suitable men could be found for... ...ked to fill
them all until suitable men could be found for those outside Ṭur ʿAbdin .... By
the time of the Arab Conquest, in 639/40, the abbot of Qarṭmin, now Gabriel
of Beth Qustan (Bequsyone), was managing two dioces... ...ustan (Bequsyone), was managing two dioceses from his monastery:
that of Ṭur ʿAbdin and that of Dara. No doubt the success with which he
negotiated a treaty wi... ...f later generations.
When his Life came to be written, little was remembered about him, which
shows that it took time for him to acquire the reputation of a s...
15
Islam, Syriac interactions withContributor:
Sidney H.
Griffith
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Islam-Syriac-contacts-with
...ccording to
one estimate, Syriac loan words in the Arabic Qurʾān account for about
seventy percent of the foreign vocabulary in the text (Mingana). This state... ...ing Christians in his era, in the
region of
Ṭur ʿAbdin
, that ‘the gates were opened to them to [enter] Islam
... ...thor told of the monk’s
interactions with Muḥammad, including their dialogue about the major topics
of Christian/Muslim controversy (Roggema). This ingenious ... ...e earliest of them were the
‘Melkite’
Theodoros Abū
Qurra
(ca. 755-ca. 830), the ‘Jacobite’ Ḥabīb ... ... Qurra
(ca. 755-ca. 830), the ‘Jacobite’ Ḥabīb b. Khidma Abū Rāʾiṭa
(d. ca. 851), and the ‘Nestorian’ ʿAmmār al-Baṣrī (fl.
... ...t, but where he also engaged in
conversations with Muslim scholars. He tells about his experiences and
recounts his conversations in several of his Syriac let... ... letters addressed to Christians in the environs of Baṣra he offers advice
about how to discuss Christology in a Muslim dominated milieu (Griffith
2007). In... ... letters addressed to Christians in the environs of Baṣra he offers advice
about how to discuss Christology in a Muslim dominated milieu (Griffith
2007). In...
16
Maphrian
Catholicos [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Maphrian
...nam IV (1839–59).
After his death, the Maphrianate, by now titular only, was abolished ....
2. Maphrianate of
Ṭur ʿAbdin
. This
Maphrianate was under the jurisdiction of th... ... Maphrianate was under the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate
of Ṭur ʿAbdin . The first Maphrian was Baselios
Malki of
... ...95. It is not clear to what extent the Maphrian held jurisdiction within
Ṭur ʿAbdin . The last of the Maphrians of this line was Baselios ʿAbd al-Aḥad of Anhil (1821–1844) who was killed by
Kurds in March 1844.
... . The last of the Maphrians of this line was Baselios ʿAbd al-Aḥad of Anhil (1821–1844) who was killed by
Kurds in March 1844.
... . The last of the Maphrians of this line was Baselios ʿAbd al-Aḥad of Anhil (1821–1844) who was killed by
Kurds in March 1844.
... ...om
his successor Patr.
ʿAbdulmasīḥ
II
around 1902, but the latter strongly refuse...
17
Abraham bar Dashandad
(8th cent.) [E.-Syr.] Contributor:
Herman G. B.
Teule
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Abraham-bar-Dashandad
Abraham ... bar Dashandad
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org Abraham -bar-Dashandad
http://syriaca.org/bibl/21
12
... ... , known as the
Upper Monastery. According to
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
, he was the author of a Book of
... ...
Timotheos I
, a
certain Abraham , who may have been Abraham bar Dashandad, was also active as
a copyist of works of
... , who may have been Abraham bar Dashandad, was also active as
a copyist of works of
... , who may have been Abraham bar Dashandad, was also active as
a copyist of works of
... , who may have been Abraham bar Dashandad, was also active as
a copyist of works of
...
18
Iyob of Edessa
Job of Edessa, Ayyūb al-Ruhāwī (2nd half of 8th cent. – ca. 835?)
[Ch. of E. or Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Barbara H.
Roggema
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Iyob-of-Edessa
...ator, and physician, active in
Iraq in the
first Abbasid cent.
Job of Edessa, Ayyūb al-Ruhāwī (2nd hal... ... Natural philosopher, translator, and physician, active in Iraq in the first
Abbasid cent., nicknamed ‘al- Abrash ’, or ‘the Spotted’. The exact dates of
his life are not known, but scholars... ...estimate that he lived between 760 and
835. He was active in the time of the Abbasid caliph al-Maʾmūn (r. 813–33).
Both Iyob and his son Ibrāhīm worked as physi... ...estimate that he lived between 760 and
835. He was active in the time of the Abbasid caliph al-Maʾmūn (r. 813–33).
Both Iyob and his son Ibrāhīm worked as physi... ...estimate that he lived between 760 and
835. He was active in the time of the Abbasid caliph al-Maʾmūn (r. 813–33).
Both Iyob and his son Ibrāhīm worked as physi... ... Both Iyob and his son Ibrāhīm worked as physicians in the entourage of the
Abbasid family. Iyob was sent by al-Maʾmūn to Khurasan to serve as ʿAbd
Allāh b. Ṭāhir’s physician, when the latter became governor there in the
...
19
Masʿūd of Ṭur ʿAbdin
(ca. 1430/1–1509?) [ Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Herman G. B.
Teule
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Masud-of-Tur-Abdin
Masʿūd of Ṭur ʿAbdin ...
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Masud-of-Tur Abdin
http://syriaca.org/bibl/372
363
... ...://syriaca.org/person/279
person
Author, monk, and solitary, abbot of the Monastery of the
Cross (Dayr al-Ṣalīb) near Ḥaḥ (ca. 1462/3–1480/1),... ... (ca. 1430/1–1509?) [ Syr. Orth.]
Author, monk, and solitary, abbot of the Monastery of the Cross (
Dayr
al-Ṣal... ...identifies him with the Patr. Masʿūd of
Ṭur
ʿAbdin
(d. 1509). Masʿūd was a vigorous promotor of monastic life
... ... (d. 1509). Masʿūd was a vigorous promotor of monastic life
in Ṭur ʿAbdin . He is the author of the elpo
ruḥonoyto ‘the Spiritual Boat’, a work intend... ...
he appointed a maphr.
and twelve bishops for Ṭur ʿAbdin , which caused much confusion. According to
Barsoum, some senior bishops den... ... Emir of Ḥesno d-Kifo, who confined him to a monastery. As a result he
abdicated and ordered his followers not to appoint a new
...
20
... from Mount Izla, or the
southern slopes of
Ṭur ʿAbdin
, on to
the Mesopotamian plain just north of Nisibi... ... Malkon
(before 1222–47?), and
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
. When, between 1482 and 1489, Syr. ... ...482 and 1489, Syr. Orth.
Patr. Ignatius
Sobo of Ṭur ʿAbdin attempted to gain control of the churches of St. Jacob
and St. Domitius, th... ... 1616.
The first appearance of a Syr. Orth. bishop of Nisibis Abraham , 631) may be
connected with the Roman advances made in the area under Emper... .... The church of St. Febronia (4th cent. martyr) is now the Mosque of
Zayn al ʿĀbidīn .
See Fig. 92.
Sources
... ... H. Anschütz, Die syrischen Christen vom Tur
ʿAbdin (1984), 108–112.
G. Bell (and M. M. Mango), The churches and
... ...G. Bell (and M. M. Mango), The churches and
monasteries of the Ṭur ʿAbdin (1982), 142–5.
W. Cramer, in
LThK
...
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Shemʿun II, Basileios
(ca. 1670–1740) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Shemun-II-Basileios
... http://syriaca.org/person/291
person
Writer, maph. of Ṭur ʿAbdin (1710–40), and martyr.
(ca. 1670–1740) [Syr. ... ... [Syr. Orth.]
Writer, maph. of
Ṭur ʿAbdin
(1710–40), and martyr. He was born in Beth Manʿem ... ...r
al-Zaʿfarān
. He was consecrated maph. for Ṭur ʿAbdin in 1710 by
Patr.
Isḥoq ʿAza... ...ʿun temporarily retired from the
responsibilities of the maphrianate without abdicating , preferring the life
of a ḥbišoyo at Dayro d-Mor Yaʿqub. In 1725, he
... ... of a ḥbišoyo at Dayro d-Mor Yaʿqub. In 1725, he
brought about a reconciliation between the Patriarchate of Ṭur ʿAbdin , upon
the death of its Patr. Ignatius Denḥo, with the mainstream Patriarcha... a reconciliation between the Patriarchate of Ṭur ʿAbdin , upon
the death of its Patr. Ignatius Denḥo, with the mainstream Patriarcha... a reconciliation between the Patriarchate of Ṭur ʿAbdin , upon
the death of its Patr. Ignatius Denḥo, with the mainstream Patriarcha...
22
Aba ... I
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org Aba -I
http://syriaca.org/bibl/10
1
... ...
(540–52). Born from
Zoroastrian parents, Aba converted to Christianity and studied at the School of Nisibis. He traveled to the Roman Empire and... ...ed as his successor in 540. In 544 an
itinerant synod was held, during which Aba , accompanied by a changing number
of bishops, visited several dioceses, man... ...s, which are related
to this ecclesiastical visitation and, more broadly, to Aba’s reforms: 1. on
reform of church governance; 2. on the orthodox faith; 3. on... ... ecclesiastical hierarchy; 6. a letter entitled Practica (fragments); 7. canons (1–40; incomplete). Aba came into
conflict with the Persian authorities and spent several of his ye... ...
in prison and in exile.
The sources attribute to Aba several commentaries on OT and NT books, of
which only fragments exist in l... ...a. 550 wrote his ‘Christian Topography’. Cosmas (in
Book II.2) acknowledges Aba , whom he calls Patrikios (derived from the Greek
word for ‘father’), as his...
23
Chaldean Syrian ChurchContributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Chaldean-Syrian-Church
...abar, the result was that
Thondanatta was consecrated later that year as Mar ʿAbdishoʿ by Mar Shemʿon
Rubel, the
... ...wo Middle Eastern
metropolitans to Trichur, Mar
Abimalek
Timotheus
(1908–45) and Mar
... ...
Mar Aprem
idem
, Mar Abimalek Timotheus
(1975).
... ...
Mar Aprem
idem
, Mar ʿAbdishoʿ Thondanat
(1987).
...
24
Dadishoʿ Qaṭraya
(late 7th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Dadisho-Qatraya
...g the monastic practice of retreats for seven weeks
in solitude; a Letter to Abkosh , also on Stillness, and various short texts
concerning the spiritual life. ... ...rvives), Arabic, and Ethiopic. There is also a fragment of his
Commentary on Abba Isaiah in Sogdian.
... ... A. Guillaumont and M. Albert, ‘Lettre de Dadishoʿ Qatraya à
Abkosh sur l’Hesychia’, in Mémorial A-J.
Festugière, ed. E. Lucchesi ... ...gière, ed. E. Lucchesi and H. D. Saffrey (1984),
235–45. (Letter to Abkosh )
A. Mingana, ‘Early Christian Mystics’, Woodbrooke Studies 7 (1934), 7... ...
Secondary Sources
L. Abramowski ..., ‘Dadisho Qatraya and his Commentary on the Book of
Abbas Isaiah’, Harp 4 (1991),
67–83.
R. A. K... ..., ‘Dadisho Qatraya and his Commentary on the Book of
Abbas Isaiah’, Harp 4 (1991),
67–83.
R. A. K... ..., ‘Dadisho Qatraya and his Commentary on the Book of
Abbas Isaiah’, Harp 4 (1991),
67–83.
R. A. K...
25
Historiography, SyriacContributor:
Witold
Witakowski
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Historiography-Syriac
... Adiabene
, we have
no information about them). The notes per se are not historiography, but
they could be used to c... ...historiography, but
they could be used to construct a narrative of some kind about the past.
After the end of the kingdom of Osrhoene, the materials from the ... ...historiography, but
they could be used to construct a narrative of some kind about the past.
After the end of the kingdom of Osrhoene, the materials from the ... ...ed material from the creation of
the world (Eusebius started his canons from Abraham ) and continued its
narrative up to their time. These chronicles were transl... ... translated into Syriac, and has been preserved both in excerpts and in an
abbreviated form (not published). Whether works of other continuators of
Eusebius, Sozo... ...yriac, the genre difference between
chronicle and ecclesiastical history was abolished .
It does not mean however that short chronicles were no longer composed. The
... ...s a simple work
of universal history, but after the epoch of Constantine the abundance of
material to be dealt with caused the author to divide it into two parts,... ... Nisibis
(see below) and from
ʿAbdishoʿ Bar
Brikha
, the author of the so-called ‘Catal...
26
Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq
(808–873) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Aaron M.
Butts
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Hunayn-b-Ishaq
...
Physician, philosopher, theologian, and translator. His full name is Abū Zayd
Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq b. Sulaymān b. Ayyūb al-ʿIbādī, and he was known in me... ...l role that he played in the Graeco-Arabic
translation movement of the early Abbasid period (in general, see Gutas).
His translation activity was carried out in... ...thor in his own right. In his ʿUyūn al-ʾanbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt
al-ʾaṭibbā, Ibn Abī ... Uṣaybiʿa (d. 1270) attributes 111 works to
Ḥunayn (ed. A. Müller, Ibn Abi Useibia [1884],
184–200). Most of Ḥunayn’s works are in the field of medici... ...l
points’ (Kitāb al-nuqaṭ). In his ‘Catalogue’,
ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha
(d. 1318) also attributes a grammar to
... ... G. C. Anawati and A. Z. Iskandar, ‘Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʿIbādī,
Abū Zayd’, in Dictionary of scientific
biography, vol. 15. Suppleme... ...dāb al-Falāsifah: The pursuit of wisdom and a
humane polity in early Abbasid Baghdad’, in Malphono w-Rabo d-Malphone, ed. Kiraz (2008),
135–60.
... ... M. Salama-Carr, La traduction à l’époque
abbasside . L’école de Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq et son importance pour la
traducti...
27
Juridical literatureContributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Juridical-literature
... Cath.
Mar
Aba I
(d. 552), to
Sh... ...shoʿ bar Nun
(d. 828),
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Bahrīz
(early 9th cent.), and
... ... Nisibis
(bar Shinaya, d. 1046). While the lawbooks of Aba I,
Shemʿon of Rev Ardashir, Ishoʿbokht, Ḥenanishoʿ I, Timotheos I, and Ish... ... included in E. Sachau’s Syrische
Rechtsbücher (1907–14), and the one by ʿAbdishoʿ bar Bahrīz was
edited by W. Selb (1970), the lawbooks of Gewargis of Arbela... ...
Yoḥannan bar
Abgare
(ca. 900), its authorship remains uncertain.
3. Eccles... ... collections of this type are preserved, both by
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
: his ‘Nomocanon’ (Kunnāšā d-qānone
... ...and W.-Syr. juridical traditions
reached their fullest development, those of ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha and Bar
ʿEbroyo, have remained authoritative to the present day,... ...n von Nicaea bis Chalcedon nebst einigen zugehörigen
Dokumenten Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft
der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Philo...
28
...ns as the first bp. of Mardin a certain Christopher named in
the Life of Mor Abḥai . Historically more certain is Daniel ʿUzoyo, abbot of
Qarṭmin (see
Monastery of Mor Gabriel
... . Historically more certain is Daniel ʿUzoyo, abbot of
Qarṭmin (see
Monastery of Mor Gabriel
... ...de metropolitan of Tella,
Mardin, Dara, and
Ṭur ʿAbdin
in
614/5. Until the 12th cent., the see of Mardin ... ... H. Anschütz, Die syrischen Christen vom
Tur ʿAbdin (1984), 143–150.
G. Akyüz, Mardin ili’nin merkezinde civar
... ... ,
335.
E. Keser, Tur Abdin . Süryani Ortodoks dini
mimarisi (Istanbul, 2002), 81–92. (on the ch...
29
...
III. Syriac-Orthodox Christianity centered around Ṭur ʿAbdin
—
... ... —
H. Aydin, Das Mönchtum im Tur Abdin .... Das Leben
der Mönche im Tur Abdin in der Gegenwart (1988). (two
maps)
... .... Das Leben
der Mönche im Tur Abdin in der Gegenwart (1988). (two
maps)
... .... Das Leben
der Mönche im Tur Abdin in der Gegenwart (1988). (two
maps)
... .... Das Leben
der Mönche im Tur Abdin in der Gegenwart (1988). (two
maps)
... ...mer, Monk and mason on the Tigris
frontier. The early history of Ṭur ʿAbdin (University of
Cambridge Oriental Publications 39; 1990).
... ...
Map III. Syriac-Orthodox Christianity centered around Ṭur ʿAbdin .
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/map/iii
...
30
Map III. Syriac-Orthodox Christianity centered around Ṭur ʿAbdin.URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/map/iii
...
Map III. Syriac-Orthodox Christianity centered around Ṭur ʿAbdin .
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/map/iii
...
31
III. Frequently quoted publications, referred to by the authors’s last name and short titleURI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Frequently-Cited-Publications-Author-Short-Title
... 8
Abbeloos ... and Lamy, Gregorii Barhebraei chronicon ecclesiasticum = J. B. Abbeloos and T. J. Lamy, Gregorii Barhebraei chronicon ecclesiasticum,
1–2 (3 vo... ... 1–2 (3 vols.; 1872–1877).
Abūna , Adab = Ab Albīr Abūna , Adab al-lugha al-ārāmiyya (1970).
Assemani, BibOr = J. S.... Albīr Abūna , Adab al-lugha al-ārāmiyya (1970).
Assemani, BibOr = J. S.... Albīr Abūna , Adab al-lugha al-ārāmiyya (1970).
Assemani, BibOr = J. S.... ...culture. The
Graeco-Arabic translation movement in Baghdad and early ʿAbbasid
society (2nd – 4th /8th – 10th centuries) (1998).
...
32
ʿAbdullāh II Saṭṭūf
(1834–1915) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Abdullah-II-Sattuf
ʿAbdullāh ... II Saṭṭūf
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org Abdullah -II-Sattuf
http://syriaca.org/bibl/17
8
... ...
(1906–15). Born in Ṣadad of deacon
Jirjis b. ʿAbdullāh Saṭṭūf and Nasra b. Ḥanna al-Tawīl. He joined
Dayr
... ... priesthood after two weeks. In 1870, he toured the area of
Ṭur ʿAbdin
and
recorded the names of villages, monasteries, c... ... Jerusalem on 3 Sept. 1872 by Patr. Peṭros IV and was named Gregorius.
ʿAbdullāh accompanied the
Patr.
... ... patr.
from India, ʿAbdullāh stayed for two more
years before going back to London where he secured a pr... ...on where he secured a printing press for Dayr
al-Zaʿfarān. After his return, ʿAbdullāh ...on where he secured a printing press for Dayr
al-Zaʿfarān. After his return, ʿAbdullāh
33
Abgar the Hagiographer
(early 5th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Abgar-the-Hagiographer
Abgar ... the Hagiographer
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org Abgar -the-Hagiographer
http://syriaca.org/bibl/19
10
... ...
http://syriaca.org/person/315
person
Abgar is named as the author of the
martyrdom of
Hor... ...
(early 5th cent.) [Ch. of E.]
Abgar is named as the author of the martyrdom of Hormizd and his nine
companions ... ... , and of
Yaʿqub the Notary — must also have been written by Abgar . These four martyr
texts are grouped together in ms. Berlin, Or. oct. 1257 ... ... , and in the proximity of a monastery to which
in all likelihood Abgar belonged. The ‘cycle of Abgar ’, as Devos has named
it, must have been composed between 421 and 424 (prior... belonged. The ‘cycle of Abgar ’, as Devos has named
it, must have been composed between 421 and 424 (prior...
34
Abraham bar Lipeh
(7th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Abraham-bar-Lipeh
Abraham ... bar Lipeh
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org Abraham -bar-Lipeh
http://syriaca.org/bibl/22
13
... ... http://syriaca.org/person/318
person
Author of an abbreviated Commentary on the Liturgy.
(7th cent.) [Ch. o... ...
(7th cent.) [Ch. of E.]
Author of an abbreviated Commentary on the Liturgy. Virtually
nothing is known of his life. It is pr... ... ), and it is likely that he belongs to the 7th cent.
Abraham’s ... liturgical commentary turns out to be very largely just an
abbreviation of that by Gabriel. He is often cited by name in the Anonymous
Commentary w... ... liturgical commentary turns out to be very largely just an
abbreviation of that by Gabriel. He is often cited by name in the Anonymous
Commentary w... ... liturgical commentary turns out to be very largely just an
abbreviation of that by Gabriel. He is often cited by name in the Anonymous
Commentary w...
35
Babai the Great
(ca. 551–628) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Babai-the-Great
... studied at the School of
Nisibis under
Abraham of
Beth Rabban
. He subsequently became a monk ... ...onk of the ‘Great
Monastery’, founded in 571 by
Abraham of
Kashkar
(d. 588). Later, he moved to Beth Z... ...he Great Monastery, where he had
been appointed
Abbot
abbot
, in succession to Dadishoʿ. During the interregnum
... ... features in a late collection of Christological texts (ed. with ET by L.
Abramowski and A. Goodman, Nestorian Christological
Texts [1972], vol. 1, 207–9 [S... ... A large number of other works by Babai have not survived (
ʿAbdishoʿ
states that he wrote ‘83 volumes’ in all).
... ...
Sources
L. Abramowski , ‘Babai der Grosse: christologische Probleme und
ihre Lösungen’,
...
36
Bar ʿEdta, Rabban
(d. 611 or 621) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Bar-Edta-Rabban
... http://syriaca.org/person/366
person
Disciple of Abraham of Kashkar; monastic leader.
(d. 611 or 621) ... ...11 or 621) [Ch. of E.]
Disciple of
Abraham of
Kashkar
; monastic leader. Bar ʿEdta is cred... ...monks. Bar ʿEdta’s life is known primarily through a
metrical composition by Abraham Zabaya (from the region near the river Zab),
who wrote at the request of th... ...region near the river Zab),
who wrote at the request of the metropolitan Bp. ʿAbdishoʿ ... (who might have
been
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Bahrīz
, even though it cannot be ruled out... ...ugh it cannot be ruled out that we are dealing
with an 11th-cent. namesake). Abraham mentions as his main source a prose
narrative by Bar ʿEdta’s disciple Yoḥan... ...ersian and Rabban Bar-ʿIdtâ (2 vols; 1902,
repr. 1976), vol. I, 113–202 Abraham’s ... text; Syr.); vol. II.1, 161–304
Abraham’s text; ET).
Fiey, Assyrie chrétienne, vol. 1,
26...
37
Beth ʿAbe, Monastery ofContributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Beth-Abe-Monastery-of
Beth ʿAbe ..., Monastery of
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Beth Abe -Monastery-of
http://syriaca.org/bibl/105
96
... ...riaca.org/bibl/105
96
Monastery of Beth ʿAbe
http://syriaca.org/place/223
place
Famo... .../6 by Yaʿqub, a
monk of the ‘Great Monastery’
of Abraham of
Kashkar
(on the mountain
... ...6 by Yaʿqub, a monk of the ‘Great
Monastery’ of
Abraham of
Kashkar
(on the mountain of Izla), who orig... ... Budge); it must have been in or near an earlier inhabited site named Beth
ʿAbe since Bethaba is mentioned in Ptolemy’s
‘Geography’ (VI.1.4). The history o... ...o 832 is
exceptionally well documented thanks to the account of its first 20 abbots
by
Toma of Marga
, him... ... Toma of Marga
, himself originally a monk of Beth ʿAbe . The
monastery was especially flourishing in the mid 7th cent. when the fut...
38
Dawid Puniqoyo
Dāwūd al-Ḥimṣī (ca. 1431 – ca. 1500) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Aaron M.
Butts
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Dawid-Puniqoyo
...th cent. According to traditional biographical sources, he was born Dawid
b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Ṣalāḥ in al-Qaryatayn in 1431. At a young age, he moved
to
... ...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 582–4.
Barsoum, Scattered pearls, 503–5.
A. ... ..., 40–2 (LT).
A. Vööbus, ‘Die Entdeckung des Psalmenkommentars des Dawid bar ʿAbd
al-Karim’,
ZAW
... ... , ‘Discovery of the Mēmrē of David
the Phoenician’, Abr -Nahrain 21 (1982–3),
66–9.
...
39
Dionysios of Tel Maḥre
(d. 845) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Witold
Witakowski
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Dionysios-of-Tel-Mahre
... At the very beginning of his pontificate he had to face opposition from
Abraham , whom Dionysios calls Abiram (
cp.
cf.
Num. 16)... , whom Dionysios calls Abiram (
cp.
cf.
Num. 16)... ... his followers of the Monastery of Gubba Barraya. The group was schismatic
Abraham ordained his own bishops), but also held dissenting views in the
matter of ... ...cretion of
every bp. However not even this tolerant solution was accepted by Abraham’s
group. Dionysios however succeeded in appeasing at least the people and
... ...the people and
monks of the diocese of Cyrrhus, who previously had supported Abraham . The
latter repeatedly presented himself to the Muslim authorities as the
... ...the people and
monks of the diocese of Cyrrhus, who previously had supported Abraham . The
latter repeatedly presented himself to the Muslim authorities as the
... ...itimate bishops would
not be officially approved by the Muslims. In this way Abraham no longer
presented a threat to Dionysios’s authority or the unity of the C...
40
Ethiopic Christianity, Syriac contacts withContributor:
Aaron M.
Butts
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Ethiopic-Christianity-Syriac-contacts-with
...g), and
Marrassini (1990, 38–9; 1999, 328–9) has raised additional questions about
some of the purported Syriac loanwords in Geʿez while at the same time
... ... attributed to Ephrem are extracted in the Hāymānota
ābaw ‘Faith of the Fathers’, which is a large compendium of
patristic writings, ... ...emʿun
Quqoyo
.
The legend of Abgar V Ukkama (see Abgarids ), which is
found in Syriac in the Teaching of
A... ... Burdʿoyo
(d. 578) is preserved in Geʿez in the Hāymānota ābaw (ed. with GT Cornill; see J. Tubach, in
EAe
, ... ...ac writings of Isḥaq as well as four
homilies by Yoḥannan of Dalyatha and an abbreviated version of the ‘Letter
to Patricius’ by Philoxenos of Mabbug. Thus, althoug... ...iac exegetical homilies
are also extant in Geʿez. The Syriac verse homily on Abraham and Sarah in
Egypt (ed. with ET S. P. Brock and S. Hopkins, ‘A verse homily... ...d Sarah in
Egypt (ed. with ET S. P. Brock and S. Hopkins, ‘A verse homily on Abraham
and Sarah in Egypt: Syriac original with early Arabic translation’,
...
41
Marutha of Maypherqaṭ
(4th/5th cent.) Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Marutha-of-Maypherqat
... life in Armenian (ed. Marcus), Greek (ed. J. Noret, in
AB
91 [1973], 77–103), and Arabic (Chronicle of
... ... Isḥaq
,
the bp. of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, were able to get the Shah’s permission to
convene a synod there, at which the Council... ...ropolis d’après Ibn al-Azraq
(d.1181)’,
AB
94 (1976), 35–45.
R. Marcus, ‘The Armenian Li... ...sions perses à
Maroutha de Maypherqat’,
AB
97 (1979),
129–30.
...
42
Sayfo
Firman, Seferberlik, Seyfo Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Sayfo
...f Cizre, in the Hakkari region,
having sided with the Russians in 1916, were abandoned after the Russian
Revolution (1917), and were driven out by the Ottoman arm... ... al-naṣārā (1919).
J. Beit-Sawoce, Sayfo b-Tur ʿAbdin
1914–1915 (2006).
Brock and Taylor, Hidden ... ...ernichtung der
Syro-Aramäer im Tur
Abdin
ʿAbdin
1915 (2005). (translation from
Syriac ...
43
Shemʿon bar Ṣabbaʿe
(d. 341 or 344) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Shemon-bar-Sabbae
... ʿAggai
(d. between 327 and 335), but nothing is known about his
tenure as bp. prior to his arrest. His name ‘son of the dyers’ may refe... ...of the dyers’ may refer to
the profession of textile dying. Our main sources about Shemʿon are two
interrelated Syriac texts: 1. the ‘Martyrdom of Shemʿon’ (f... ... bar Sabbaʿe and the “Great Massacre” ’,
AB
117 (1999), 9–47.
P. Devos, ‘Sozomène ... ...ques de S. Syméon bar
Sabbāʿe’,
AB
84 (1966), 443–56.
Fiey, Saints syriaq...
44
Sleepers of Ephesus, Legend of theContributor:
Witold
Witakowski
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Sleepers-of-Ephesus-Legend-of-the
... Legend of the Sleepers of Ephesus
work
A legend about seven
young Christian men who during the period of the persecution of the
... ... .
The Legend tells about seven (in Syriac most often eight) young Christian men
who during the perio... ...fer sacrifice to pagan gods, and
taking advantage of the emperor’s temporary absence from Ephesus, escaped to
the mountains outside the city, where they hid in ... ...fer sacrifice to pagan gods, and
taking advantage of the emperor’s temporary absence from Ephesus, escaped to
the mountains outside the city, where they hid in ... ...fer sacrifice to pagan gods, and
taking advantage of the emperor’s temporary absence from Ephesus, escaped to
the mountains outside the city, where they hid in ... ...und already in the ‘Rest of the Words of Jeremiah’, 5:1 (2nd
cent. AD) where Abimelek the ‘Ethiopian’ (
i.e.
i.e.,
... ...wed that
the original must have been Greek.
As mentioned above , the Legend of the Sleepers of Ephesus was also known in
the West in the Mi... ...] P.
Peeters, ‘Le Martyrologe de Rabban Sliba’,
AB
27
[1908], 166).
...
45
Sobo, Ignatius
(d. 1389) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Sobo-Ignatius
....
patr.
of Ṭur ʿAbdin .
(d. 1389) [Syr. Orth.]
... ... patr.
of
Ṭur ʿAbdin ...
.
Little is known about his life. While he was bp. of Ṣalaḥ under the
honorific name Baselios, Patr... ... time accompanied by
a delegation of bishops, priests, and notables from Ṭur ʿAbdin , but the
Patr... ....
patr.
of Ṭur ʿAbdin . Sobo received
a diploma confirming his Patriarchate from the Ayyubid ruler... ...he 1600-year history of the Monastery of Qartmin (Mor
Gabriyel)’, in Tur Abdin : living cultural
heritage, ed. H. Hollerweger (1999), 45.
...
46
Syriac LexicographyContributor:
David G. K.
Taylor
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Syriac-Lexicography
... Syr.-Coptic glossaries written on wooden boards,
found in the kitchen of an abandoned house at Kellis in the Dakhla Oasis of
Egypt (Frnazmann and Gardner).not a ... ... Syr.-Coptic glossaries written on wooden boards, found in the
kitchen of an abandoned house at Kellis in the Dakhla Oasis of Egypt
(Franzmann and Gardner). These... ... (809–73; see Hoffmann 1880 with Gottheil 1887, 61*–67*;
1889), Abdochus (12th cent.),
Bar ʿEbroyo
(1225–86;
... ... (1225–86;
see Martin), and
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
(d. 1318).
The ... ...ning alphabetic lists of words and their
glosses, were produced in 9th-cent. Abbasid
Baghdad
by
profession... ... and Bernstein, and middle-eastern
lexica, both the medieval texts mentioned above and the 1619 lexicon of the
Maronite George Karmsedinoyo, and contains nume... ... Ritter, Ṭūrōyo. Die Volkssprache der
syrischen Christen des Ṭūr Abdîn . B: Wörterbuch (1979). (does not include
verbs)
...
47
Toma of Edessa
(mid-6th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Adam H.
Becker
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Toma-of-Edessa
... http://syriaca.org/person/795
person
Affiliate of Mar Aba and teacher at School of Nisibis; author of two ‘Explanations’ of liturgical feasts.
... ...
An E.-Syr. student of the Cath. Mar
Aba I
(d. 552)
associated with the School of
... ...s. He is probably not the same Toma of Edessa who is
supposed to have taught Aba Greek as well as traveled with him to the West.
Furthermore, he has been co... ...s
only in ms. form. Along with these two texts,
ʿAbdishoʿ
attributes to him a refutation of astrology, ‘hortatory
... ...
Primary Sources
Abbeloos and Lamy, Gregorii Barhebraei
chronicon ecclesiasticum, vol. 2,...
48
Toma of Marga
(9th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Witold
Witakowski
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Toma-of-Marga
... http://syriaca.org/person/796
person
E.-Syr. abbot and bp., the author of a monastic
history.
... ...
(9th cent.) [Ch. of E.]
E.-Syr. abbot and bp., the author of a monastic history. Toma son of Yaʿqob,
was born in ... ...’ he became a monk in the
Monastery
of Beth ʿAbe
(‘The Forest Monastery’), in Marga, ca 100 km.
nor... ...holicoi of the E.-Syr. Church hailed.
When in the year 837 a former monk and abbot of Beth ʿAbe , Abraham , ʿAbe , Abraham
49
Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī
(893/4–974) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Aaron M.
Butts
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yahya-b-Adi
...
Translator, philosopher, logician, and theologian. His full name is Abū
Zakariyyā Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī b. Ḥamīd b. Zakariyyā (some mss. copied in Iran add... ...church of Mār Tūmā in
Baghdad. He was a student of the Ch. of E. philosopher Abū ... Bishr Mattā b.
Yūnus (d. ca. 940) and the celebrated Muslim philosopher Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī
(d. ca. 950). Yaḥyā had a number of prominent students, both... ...minent students, both Christians and
Muslims. His Christian students include Abū ʿAlī ʿĪsā b. Zurʿa (d. 1008) and
al-Ḥasan b. Suwār b. al-Khammār (d. after ... ...bn
al-Ṭayyib
(d. 1043). His Muslim students include Abū Sulaymān
al-Sijistānī (d. ca. 985), ʿĪsā b. ʿAlī (d. 1001; to be distinguis... ... the Syriac lexicographer
Ishoʿ bar ʿAli
), and Abū
Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī (d. 1023). Like his contemporary Ibn al-Nadīm (fl. 987),
... ... min al-naṣārā ‘Refutation of the three sects of the Christians’ by
Abū ʿĪsā Muḥammad b. Hārūn al-Warrāq (d. ca. 862) (ed. Platti 1987). Yaḥyā
also... ...
Primary Sources
C. Ehrig-Eggert, Die Abhandlung über den
Nachweis der Natur des Möglichen von Yaḥyā Ibn ʿAdī (g...
50
Yoḥannan bar Abgare
Yoḥannan bar Ḥegire; Yūḥannā b. al-Aʿraj (d. 905) [Ch. of
E.] Contributor:
Hubert
Kaufhold
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yohannan-bar-Abgare
Yoḥannan bar Abgare ...
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yohannan-bar Abgare
http://syriaca.org/bibl/604
595
... ... convened in October 900 are quoted in the Nomocanon of
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
. The rest of the canons are preserv... ...ischen
Recht. Das dem nestorianischen Katholikos Johannes V. bar Aḇgārē
zugeschriebene Rechtsbuch (1971).
...
51
al-Duwayhī, Isṭifān
(1630–1704) [Maron.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/al-Duwayhi-Istifan
...
Sources
C. Abdallah , ‘L’architecture d’une église maronite selon le
patriarche Douaihi’,
... ... 29 (2004),
61–82.
M. Abou Diwan, ‘La figure patriarcale selon le manuscrit Vat. syr.
215 du patri... ... ParOr
30 (2005), 427–33.
Abūna ..., Adab, 651–3.
P. Chébli [Šiblī], Tarjamat abīnā al-maghbūṭ
Isṭifānūs al-Duwayhī baṭriyark Anṭākiya (1630–1704)
...
52
al-Ḥāqilānī, Ibrāhīm
Abraham Echellensis (d. 1664) Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/al-Haqilani-Ibrahim
... 248
Ibrāhīm al-Ḥāqilānī
Abraham Echellensis
http://syriaca.org/person/524
person
... ...riac
scholar.brief
Abraham Echellensis (d. 1664)
Professor of Syriac and Arabic, Syriac s... ...ated
translation of the ‘Catalogue of books’ by
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
(1653). He also copied some Syriac ... ... B. Heyberger (ed.), Orientalisme, science et
controverse: Abraham Ecchellensis (1605–1664) (2010).
G. Levi Della Vida, Ricerche sulla formaz... ... Vaticana (SeT 92; 1949), 6, 13–22, 374–97.
L. Petit, Abraham Echellensis’, in
DHGE
, vol. 1 (1912),...
53
Aba II of Kashkar
(641–751) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Gerrit J.
Reinink
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Aba-II-of-Kashkar
Aba ... II of Kashkar
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org Aba -II-of-Kashkar
http://syriaca.org/bibl/11
2
... ... in 741. In the sixth year of his Catholicate a
conflict between Aba and the clergy of Seleucia-Ctesiphon arose; the latter
accused the
... ...taken the possessions of the city’s
School. According to a letter written by Aba to the director, the teachers,
and the other ‘brothers’ of the School, thes... ...r a year, but returned to Seleucia-Ctesiphon after
the conflict was settled. Aba is known as the author of different works
which, except for ‘the Letter to ... ...of Christian tenets such as the Trinity and the Divinity of Christ. Although
Aba is reported to have maintained as
Cat... ... Baumstark, Literatur, 214–5.
J.-B. Chabot, ‘La lettre du catholicos Mar Aba II aux membres de
l’école patriarcale de Séleucie’, Actes du onzième
... ... , ‘Rhetorik in der Homilie zu Jes. 52,13–53,12 des Katholikos
Mar Aba II. von Kaškar’, in
SymSyr IV,
307–16....
54
Aba ...
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org Aba
http://syriaca.org/bibl/12
3
... ... , author, and biblical commentator. The ‘Testament of
Ephrem’ mentions Aba as the first of Ephrem’s seven disciples. He must,
therefore, be the same p... ... of Ephrem’s seven disciples. He must,
therefore, be the same person as ‘Mar Aba , the disciple of Ephrem’ to whom
several fragments are attributed in ms. Lo... ... of Ephrem’s seven disciples. He must,
therefore, be the same person as ‘Mar Aba , the disciple of Ephrem’ to whom
several fragments are attributed in ms. Lo... ... of Ephrem’s seven disciples. He must,
therefore, be the same person as ‘Mar Aba , the disciple of Ephrem’ to whom
several fragments are attributed in ms. Lo... ... these meager remains some new texts may perhaps be added.
Aba is explicitly quoted in a work on the Holy Chrism by
Anṭun of
... ... long extract (240 lines of 7 syllables each) from a
poem attributed to ‘Mar Aba , the disciple of the holy Mar Ephrem’ from ms.
Sin. Syr. 67 (9th cent.). It...
55
ʿAbdishoʿ of Gazarta
(d. 1567) [Ch. of E., Chald.] Contributor:
Herman G. B.
Teule
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Abdisho-of-Gazarta
ʿAbdishoʿ ... of Gazarta
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org Abdisho -of-Gazarta
http://syriaca.org/bibl/15
6
... ...
http://syriaca.org/person/311
person
ʿAbdishoʿ bar Yoḥannan d-Beth Maron, monk of the
monastery of Mar Aḥa the
... ...
(d. 1567) [Ch. of E., Chald.]
ʿAbdishoʿ bar Yoḥannan d-Beth Maron, monk of the monastery of Mar Aḥa the
Egyptian, i... ...
Recognized by the Pope, Yoḥannan ordained
ʿAbdishoʿ ... Metr. of Gazarta. After Yoḥannan Sullaqa’s violent death in 1555,
ʿAbdishoʿ succeeded him as
Patr.
... ...haldéens,
martyr de l’union avec Rome (†1555). Trois poésies inédites de ʿAbdišoʿ
de Gazerte’, Angelicum 8 (1931),
187–234.
...
56
Addai, Teaching of
(ca. 420) Contributor:
Timothy Scott
Wardle
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Addai-Teaching-of
...yriac writing containing the legendary correspondence
between Jesus and King Abgar of Edessa.
(ca. 420)
... ...yriac writing containing the legendary correspondence between Jesus and King
Abgar of
Edessa
, the report of the apostle Addai’s ... ...y, such as the portrait of Jesus, are missing.
Eusebius’s account ends after Abgar is healed and Thaddaios is asked to
speak to the people of Edessa, a prelud... ... 18 (2004), 46–56.
A. Desreumaux, Histoire du roi Abgar et de
Jésus (1993).
H. J. W. Drijvers, ‘The...
57
...After a period of persecution for the
Miaphysites under the Chalcedonian Bp. Abraham bar Kaili, a line of
Miaphysite bishops was reestablished with the consecra... ... Melitene
, during the tenure of Ignatius
ʿAbdullāh I bar Sṭephanos
(1521– 1557), and in 1862–71 when
... ... . The Syr.
Orth. see of Amid lapsed with the demise of Metr. Dionysios ʿAbd al-Nūr
Aslan in 1933.
The presence of E.-Syr. Christian... ...G. Bell (and M. M. Mango), The churches and
monasteries of the Ṭur ʿAbdin (1982), 23–6, 66–9, 105–9, pl.
9–30.
Desreumaux...
58
Arabic, Syriac translations fromContributor:
Herman G. B.
Teule
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Arabic-Syriac-translations-from
...anslations of philosophical and scientific works
that were made in the first Abbasid period by
Ḥunayn b.
Isḥāq
... ... in his discussions with the vizier al-Maghribī) that the
absence of such translations are proof of the superiority of Syriac science
and cul... ...tituted by medical texts of Greek origin, which
were translated in the first Abbasid period. Though in most cases these
texts were translated directly from the ... ...e late
Chald.
mss., through there is no information about the translator (for
discussion, see Teule, forthcoming).
... ...-išārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt by Ibn Sīna (Syriac
Ktobo d-remze wa-mʿironwoto d Abu ʿAli bar Sīnā),
in which he acknowledges the authorship of Ibn Sīnā and doe... ...n Sīnā and does justice to the
Islamic context of this work, Athīr al-Dīn al Abharī’s Zubdat al-Asrār (lost), and possibly Ibn Sinā’s ‘Medical Canon’.
Bar ʿEbroy... ...veral quotations (in Syriac)
from verses of the Qurʾān. We have no certainty about a complete Syriac
translation of this work, but
... ... treatises composed by Maron. or Syr. Catholic authors. The priest Yawsep
Abraham from Rāwandūz (1832) translated the Mizān
al-zamān ‘the Balance of Time...
59
..., spoken in
Ṭur
ʿAbdin
, mainly by Syr. Orth. Christians. The language is now
... ... 365–77.
S. A. Kaufman, ‘Aramaic’, in
AB D, vol. 4
(1992), 173–8.
E. Lipiński, The Arame...
60
Art and architectureContributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Art-and-architecture
... Healey; Healey; Segal).
2. Christian Architecture in Syria, Ṭur ʿAbdin , and
Mesopotamia
The earliest dated church in the Syr. ... ... and Aleppo.
Known as the ‘Dead cities’, because they were abandoned in the early Islamic
period due to shifting patterns of economy and trade (... ...from their role as pilgrim
destinations, such as the church of Qalbloze, and above all the magnificent
church of
Shemʿun the
... ...from their role as pilgrim
destinations, such as the church of Qalbloze, and above all the magnificent
church of
Shemʿun the
... ...
Aleppo).
The region of
Ṭur ʿAbdin
and
the wider area around it also preserve some of... ...e middle of the nave and on which the liturgy of the
Word was performed. The above -mentioned churches of Qirqbize, Qalbloze, and
Resafa provide interesting ex... ...r the very fragmentarily
preserved paintings of Emperor Constantine and King Abgar (holding the mandylion), both of which are accompanied by Syriac
inscriptio... ... bearing inscriptions in Syriac and Arabic. It was made for
Bp. Athanasius Abraham Yaghmur of Nabk in 1534–35 (Ball).
7. Syr. Christian Art in the 21st Century
...
61
Awgen, Mar
(fl. 4th – early 5th cent.) Contributor:
Edward G.
Mathews , Jr.
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Awgen-Mar
... Chabot, Livre de la Chasteté
(1896).
S. Chialà, Abramo di Kashkar e la sua
comunità (2005), 13–20.
... ...13–20.
J.-M. Fiey, ‘Aônês, Awun et Awgin’,
AB
80 (1962), 52–81.
...
62
... cath.
under the
Abbasids and the seat today of the Chald.
... ... the villages that stood on the site of the city founded by the second
Abbasid caliph al-Manṣūr under the name of Madīnat al-Salām ‘City of Peace’
in 762.... ...n 836–92, when the
caliphs resided in Sāmarrāʾ), Baghdad was the seat of the Abbasid caliphate,
and in the first half of that period was among the most prospero... ... Ḥunayn
b. Isḥāq
(d. 873), Abū Bishr Mattā b. Yūnus (d. 940),
Yaḥyā b.
ʿA... ... ʿAdī
(893–974), and
Abū al-Faraj ibn
al-Ṭayyib
(d. 1043), to name ... ...tr.
1253–63) was later
able to spend several years of his maphrianate in Baghdad, devoting part of
that... ... , often visited
Baghdad. Two of them, Yoḥannan VIII Hormizd (1830–38) and ʿAbdishoʿ V
Khayyāṭ (1895–99), died and were buried in Baghdad. The Chald. patriarcha... ...ary Mother of
Sorrows (Umm al-Aḥzān; place of burial of Patr. Yoḥannan VIII, ʿAbdishoʿ V,
and Pawlos II) and the former Syr. Cath. cathedral, as well as the Latin...
63
... the Gharb up
to Jisr al-Qādī near Dāmūr. Around 1748, the emir Yūssif Murād Abillamā
authorized the general abbot of the Antonine Order to build a monastery in
old Beirut and Bp. Mikhāʾil F...
authorized the general abbot of the Antonine Order to build a monastery in
old Beirut and Bp. Mikhāʾil F... ... Mardin
, and
Ṭur
ʿAbdin
began to arrive in Lebanon, followed in the 20th cent. by
... ...
Primary Sources
Abbeloos and Lamy, Gregorii Barhebraei
chronicon ecclesiasticum. (Syr. a... ...
Secondary Sources
T. Abī ʿĀd, ‘ Abrašiyat Bayrūt’, al-Manāra 1.2 (1992), 91–108.
Fiey, Pour un Oriens christianus... ʿĀd, ‘ Abrašiyat Bayrūt’, al-Manāra 1.2 (1992), 91–108.
Fiey, Pour un Oriens christianus...
64
Cardahi, Gabriel
Gabriʾel Qardaḥe, Jibrāʾīl al-Qardāḥī (1845–1931) [Maron.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Cardahi-Gabriel
...f later Syriac texts: the
‘Paradise of Eden’ by
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
(Beirut, 1889) and the ‘Book of the... ... (1889).
Abulfaragii Gregorii Bar-Hebraei Mafriani
Orientis Kithâbhâ dhiyaunâ, seu L...
65
...nysios
bar Ṣalibi
,
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
) all speak of it with great respect... ...of these Western witnesses to the Diatessaron that one can
reach a judgement about its original language. The presence of Syriacisms or
Semitisms in these ‘We... ... H. J. Vogels, Beiträge zur Geschichte des
Diatessaron im Abendland (Neutestamentliche Abhandlungen
8.1; 1919).
Th. Zahn, Tatians Diatessaron
...
66
Michael Badoqa
(6th–7th cent.) Contributor:
Emanuel A.
Fiano
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Michael-Badoqa
... Michael, along with many other scholars, left the School. Little is known
about his life and his works. Among the writings attributed to him, the
following... ...ns the term theotokos and attacks Cyrillians,
Severians, and Julianists (ed. Abramowski and Goodman).
2. A ‘Book of Questions’ (Ktābā d-šuʾʾāle), of which
... ...Scripture’ in three volumes, the only
work that
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
attributes to Michael. If this iden... ...ani) is attributed to Michael,
but its spuriousness has been proven (see now Abramowski 1999). A text ‘On
Dreams’, which has been transmitted as a separate work of... ...
Primary Sources
L. Abramowski and A. E. Goodman, A
Nestorian collection of Christological te... ...
Secondary Sources
L. Abramowski , ‘Zu den Schriften des Michael Malpana / Badoqa’,
in After Bardaisa...
67
Michael II the Younger
(d. 1215) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Witold
Witakowski
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Michael-II-the-Younger
...
The name of Michael’s father
was Abraham (Chronicle of
1234, 339/252), whose other son,
... ...more active role in the process of election he
left his monastery, while the abbot followed him and tried to bring him back
to the monastery. However due to M... ...o bring him back
to the monastery. However due to Michael’s machinations the abbot was
arrested by the governor of Gargar, and released under the condition th... ...o bring him back
to the monastery. However due to Michael’s machinations the abbot was
arrested by the governor of Gargar, and released under the condition th... ...ate of Rum,
and
Ṭur
ʿAbdin
, whereas Michael was recognized in the East in the dioceses
... ...
Primary Sources
Abbeloos and Lamy, Gregorii Barhebraei
chronicon ecclesiasticum, vol. 2 ... ... chronicon ecclesiasticum, vol. 2 (1874).
A. Abouna and J.-M. Fiey, Anonymi auctoris
Chronicon ad A.C. 1234 pertin...
68
Mushe of Mardin
(16th cent.) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Mushe-of-Mardin
... , Mushe was sent by Patr.
ʿAbdullāh I bar Sṭephanos
to Rome, where he arrived with a few
... ...script, along
with three Syriac Anaphoras. Mushe wrote it for the bp. of the Abyssinian
Convent (San Stefano) in Rome, where he often resided, and it shows his
... ...
Niʿmatullāh
, following the latter’s abdication , in 1578. In Rome
he copied and annotated several more Syriac and Arabic ms... ...sche
syrischen
Christen vom Tur ʿAbdin ’,
OC
70 (1986), esp. 207–8.
...
69
Selb, Walter
(1929–1994) Contributor:
Hubert
Kaufhold
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Selb-Walter
... Rechtsgeschichte 49; 1964).
ʿAḇdīšōʿ bar Bahrīz. Ordung der Ehe und der
Erbschaften sowie Entscheidu... ...schrift der Savigny-Stiftung für
Rechtsgeschichte, Romanistische Abteilung 112 (1995),
LXIII–LXXX.
M. Memmer, ‘Sc...
70
...Thomas and Indian Christians, the
sermons and narratives provide information about early Christian
evangelistic attitudes and practices in western Asia and il... ...
Secondary Sources
S. Abouzayd , ‘The Acts of Thomas and the Unity of the Dualistic
World in the Sy... ... H. W. Attridge, ‘Acts of Thomas’, in
ABD
, vol. 6, 531–4.
G. Bornkamm, Mythos u...
71
Thomas ChristiansContributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Thomas-Christians
... Cosmas Indicopleustes, a friend of the Catholicos Mar
Aba
, speaks of a church
at Male (Malabar) and a bp. ‘a... ...he end of the 16th cent. the situation had
changed. The last Indian bp., Mar Abraham , died in 1597, and in 1599 the
metropolitan see of Angamali was demoted to ... ...85, when Maphrian Baselios Yaldo and Mar Ivanios
were sent to India by Patr. ʿAbdulmasīḥ I; although Mar Baselios died
shortly afterwards, he left a great impressio... ... came in the 19th cent., when a reform movement among the
Syr. Orth., led by Abraham malpan and supported by Anglican missionaries,
led to the emergence of the ... ..., but nothing was done until the deposed Patr.
ʿAbdulmasīḥ II
visited India in 1912 and consecrated Pawlos
Ma... ... to Patr.
ʿAbdullāh II
. Though a re-unification of the two sides was
a... ...given by Mar Kurillos Yuyaqim,
from Ḥbob in
Ṭur ʿAbdin
, who
came to Malabar in 1846, where he died in 187...
72
Timotheus, Abimalek
(1878–1945) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
James F.
Coakley
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Timotheus-Abimalek
Timotheus, Abimalek ...
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Timotheus Abimalek
http://syriaca.org/bibl/568
559
... ... http://syriaca.org/bibl/568
559
Abimalek Timotheus
http://syriaca.org/person/793
person
... ...
(1878–1945) [Ch. of E.]
Metropolitan of India. Abimalek was born in Marbishu in Turkey and graduated
from the Archbishop of Canterb... ...
Sources
Mar Aprem, Mar Abimalek Timotheus
(1975).
G. K. Bell, Randall Davidson...
73
Women in the Syriac TraditionContributor:
Susan Ashbrook
Harvey
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Women-in-the-Syriac-Tradition
... Antioch
, Mary the
Niece of Abraham of Qidun, and Febronia of
Nisibis
are among
... ... J.-M. Fiey, ‘Une hymne nestorienne sur les saintes femmes’,
AB
84 (1966), 77–110.
E. Gülcan, ‘The renewal of... .... Gülcan, ‘The renewal of monastic life for women in a monastery in
Tur Abdin ’, Sobornost 7.4 (1977),
288–98.
S. A. Harvey, ...
74
Yawsep Ḥazzaya
Joseph ‘The Seer’ or ‘The Visionary’ (8th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Robert A.
Kitchen
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yawsep-Hazzaya
... http://syriaca.org/person/816
person
Theologian, abbot , and solitary of the Ch. of E.; author of spiritual works.
... ...he Seer’ or ‘The Visionary’ (8th cent.) [Ch. of E.]
Theologian, abbot , and solitary of the Ch. of E., who has been viewed as the
systematizer of ... ...the 8th cent. (ca.
710?). After the village rebelled against Caliph ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (r.
717–20), the latter retaliated, and soldiers captured the seve... ...to be
baptized and was allowed to enter at a young age into the monastery of Abba
Ṣliba in
Beth Nuhadra
... ...t of Rabban Bakhtishoʿ, and before long Yawsep was
persuaded to become their abbot , remaining until his death.
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
(d. 1318) said that Yawsep had writ... ...en an incredible number
of works, 1900 in total, but only ten were extant by ʿAbdishoʿ’s time. His
most systematic work, ‘A letter on the three stages of the monast... ...loxenos
of Mabbug
, but a number of items in and about
75
Yoḥannan Iḥidaya
John the Solitary of Apamea (first half of 5th cent.) Contributor:
Robert A.
Kitchen
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yohannan-Ihidaya
... S. P. Brock
idem
, Malponuto d abohoto suryoye
d-‘al
d-ʿa... ...zwischen Thomasios und
Johannes und drei an Thomasios gerichtete Abhandlungen
(PTS 11; 1972). (Syr. with GT)
...
76
Abgarids of EdessaContributor:
Timothy Scott
Wardle
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Abgarids-of-Edessa
Abgarids ... of Edessa
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org Abgarids -of-Edessa
http://syriaca.org/bibl/20
11
... ... the middle of the 3rd cent. The most common names in this line of
kings are Abgar and Maʿnu, both of which are of a North Arabian type. The
disintegration of... ... disintegration of the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd cent. BC allowed the
Abgarids to establish their power. With the appearance of the Romans in the
Near Eas... ... With the appearance of the Romans in the
Near East in the 1st cent. BC, the Abgarids were able to maintain Edessa and
the surrounding area of Osrhoene as a more or less i... were able to maintain Edessa and
the surrounding area of Osrhoene as a more or less i... were able to maintain Edessa and
the surrounding area of Osrhoene as a more or less i...
77
Abraham of Beth Rabban
(6th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Abraham-of-Beth-Rabban
Abraham ... of Beth Rabban
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org Abraham -of-Beth-Rabban
http://syriaca.org/bibl/23
14
... ...terpretation and director of the School of
Nisibis. Our main sources for Abraham’s life are the two works
attributed to
Barḥadbsh... ... Siirt
.
The second part of Abraham’s name, ‘from the house of our master’ (d-Beth Rabban), is generally understood to refer to
... ... , the first director of the School of Nisibis, who may have
been Abraham’s relative. Barḥadbshabba the historian presents Abraham as
Narsai’s immediate successor and in charge of the school for 20 years (5... relative. Barḥadbshabba the historian presents Abraham as
Narsai’s immediate successor and in charge of the school for 20 years (5... relative. Barḥadbshabba the historian presents Abraham as
Narsai’s immediate successor and in charge of the school for 20 years (5...
78
Aḥob Qaṭraya
(late 6th cent.?) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Bas
ter Haar Romeny
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Ahob-Qatraya
...org/person/324
person
Exegete from Beth Qaṭraye mentioned by ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha.
(late 6th... ...h Qaṭraye
mentioned by
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
. According to Assemani he lived aro... ...when
Ishoʿyahb
was chosen.
ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha’s ‘Catalogue’ credits Aḥob with an ‘Elucidation of the
whole New...
79
Armenian Christianity, Syriac contacts withContributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Armenian-Christianity-Syriac-contacts-with
... is clearly visible. Among indigenous Armenian
authors who are well informed about Syriac Christianity and write about it
or borrow themes or interpretations from it are Eznik of Kołb (author of... Syriac Christianity and write about it
or borrow themes or interpretations from it are Eznik of Kołb (author of... ...blical commentaries, which
in particular in the commentary on Psalms contain about 160 quotations of,
or references to, the Armenian Bible (Göttsberger). The ... ...and some sources (including Yaʿqub
of Edessa, in his Chronicle) present king Abgar ... and the original population
of Edessa as Armenian. The story of Abgar’s conversion to Christianity
became widely popular in Armenian, whereby an in... ... and the original population
of Edessa as Armenian. The story of Abgar’s conversion to Christianity
became widely popular in Armenian, whereby an in... ...rt’,
ARAM 5 (1993), 15–29.
A. Drost Abgarjan
80
Aydin, Nuʿmān
(1908–2001) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Aydin-Numan
...rth.]
He was born in Kfarze in
Ṭur ʿAbdin
.
During the Sayfo massacres of 1915, his family to... ...nd a priest by Dolabani in 1952. He was appointed a Patriarchal
Vicar of Ṭur ʿAbdin from 1973 to 1980. In 1987 he immigrated to the USA and
settled in NJ. He w... ... of poems (partly published in various magazines). 3. On the
troubles of Ṭur ʿAbdin ... from 1914 to 1987 (parts were published in Bahro Suryoyo). 4. On the massacres of Ṭur ʿAbdin and
the persecution of the Turkish government from 1941 to 1942 (parts in B... ... ʿAynwardo, and other villages (ms.). 10. Biographies of the bishops of Ṭur
ʿAbdin from 1914 to 1985 (ms.). 11. The destruction of the fourteen
monasteries of... ...m 1914 to 1985 (ms.). 11. The destruction of the fourteen
monasteries of Ṭur ʿAbdin from 1914 to 1987 under the title Gedsche w-shabte >d’Turabdin (Glane, 1997), the
... ... content of which may be related to, and may include material from, 3 and 4
above .
Sources
... ...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 575–6.
Macuch, Geschichte, 469.
Munūfar Barṣ...
81
Babai of Nisibis
(6th/7th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Babai-of-Nisibis
... Dadishoʿ
’s ‘Commentary on Abba Isaiah’
(13:18). He was also author of some memre, one being
... ...
Sources
S. P. Brock, Malponuto d abohoto suryoye
d-ʿal ṣluto (Glane/Losser, 1988), 93–114. (Syr. of Letter t...
82
Bar Bahlul, Ḥasan
(mid-10th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Bar-Bahlul-Hasan
...iac and Arabic in his publications. He was involved in the election of
Cath. ʿAbdishoʿ I in 963.
Bar Bahlul’s Lexicon (Syr. Leksiqon) deals with
... ... J.-M. Fiey, ‘Sur le calendrier syriaque de Bar Bahlul’,
AB
106 (1988), 259–71.
J. Habbi, ‘Le Livre des Si...
83
Beth Lapaṭ
Gondeshapur, Jundi-Shapur Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Beth-Lapat
...in the list of metropolitan sees,
and later
Mar Aba
specifies that he should preside
over the election... ...s disputed (see Reinink). Such a school is definitely
attested for the early Abbasid period by
Timotheos I
’s
... ...
Sources
N. Abbott , ‘Jundi-Shapur: A preliminary historical sketch’,
Ars Orientalis 7 ...
84
Dawid bar Pawlos
(8th/9th cent.) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Dawid-bar-Pawlos
...
http://syriaca.org/person/144
person
Abbot and author or poetry and prose; wrote on theology, grammar, science.brief
... ...ion of
Nineveh
, he was
abbot of the monastery of Mor Sargis, on the Dry Mountain in Sinjar. A
marginal n... ... ZA
8 (1893), 86–99.
ʿAbd al-Masīḥ Nuʿmān d-Qarahbash, Esrin wa-tren
mimrin d-ḥekmto d-simin ...
85
Dionysius Thrax
‘the Thracian’ (ca. 170 – ca. 90 BC) Contributor:
Emanuel A.
Fiano
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Dionysius-Thrax
...the
6th cent. This translation is attributed by
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
and by E.-Syr. mss. to the maqryānā... ...culties of
applying Greek grammatical categories to the Syriac language, the absence of
the first, programmatic chapter has been tentatively related to a possib... ... A. Merx, Historia artis grammaticae apud
Syros Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 9;
1889), 50–72 (Syr., based on 5 ms...
86
Fatḥallāh, Elias
Fatalla, Fathi (fl. 1770–1798) [Syr. Orth., then Syr. Cath.] Contributor:
Jean
Fathi
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Fathallah-Elias
... as resistance
to it was fierce, since the city was the frequent residential abode of Syr.
Orth. patriarchs. In 1810, Khawāja Mikhāyil Fatḥī Zadeh obtained a ... ...a last attempt to catholicize the entire
Syr. church. This attempt was later aborted by the Orthodox party, and the
split of the Syrians into two churches has p... ... P. de Tarrazi, al-Salāsil al-taʾrīkhiyya fī
asāqifat al abrašiyyāt al-suryāniyya (Beirut, 1910), 90,
383–84.
...
87
Fiey, Jean-Maurice
(1914–1995) Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Fiey-Jean-Maurice
... Mongol
period, and only two books later did he go back in time to cover the Abbasid
period (1980), concentrating on the patriarchal line. The intervening
... ...ts; 1979).
Chrétiens syriaques sous les Abbassides
(CSCO 420; 1980).
...
88
Gewargis Warda
(13th cent.?) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Alessandro
Mengozzi
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Gewargis-Warda
...is is not included in
the ‘Paradise of Eden’ by
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
. Attempts to place Gewargis in the ... ...he melody and the liturgical occasion for which the text
is fitted are noted above each poem. The use of biblical texts and exempla
is often rich and felicito... ...s; 5. Attack by the Mongols at Karamlish in 1235/6 AD; 6.
The deacon Abraham of Meshkaleg, an infidel; 7. John the Baptist; 8.
Tahmazgerd and th...
89
Isaiah of Scetis
Abba Isaiah Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Isaiah-of-Scetis
... http://syriaca.org/bibl/281
272
Abba Isaiah
http://syriaca.org/person/548
person
... ... CPG
5555).
Abba Isaiah
Greek monastic writer of uncertain identity; author of ... ... CPG
5555–5556.
P. Bettiolo, Abba Isaia, Mar Efrem. Testi
siriaci sulla preghiera (1993). (IT of ... ... 26 (1995), 115–7,
120–4.
D. Chitty, Abba Isaiah’,
JTS
ns 22
...
90
Isḥaq Shbadnaya
(fl. 1439/40) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Thomas A.
Carlson
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Ishaq-Shbadnaya
... commentary on his own poem, Isḥaq may have been imitating
ʿAbdishoʿ of Nisibis
, who also composed a commentary on his own
... ... often
transmitted with his liturgical poems. Finally, a short acrostic poem about
the trials afflicting the Church, which is contained in a single ms. of
... ...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 463–4.
Baumstark, Literatur, 330.
G. Cardah...
91
Judaism, Syriac contacts withContributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Judaism-Syriac-contacts-with
...aries and creating separation.
Anti-Jewish sentiment, which had been largely absent from early Syr.
literature, became a factor in the process of Christian sel... ...sm, but their tone is very different. To account for
Ephrem’s harsh language about Jews (which may have targeted Judaizing
Christians rather than Jews themsel... ...hallenge this description, but portrays
these people as ‘sick and weak’, not able to walk on the king’s highway.
Once again we seem to be confronted with por... ... as
well relied on Jews, who in some cases were converts, for information about
the Bible. A common practice in biblical commentaries is the quotation of
... ...f the Hebrew’, his father being the physician Ahrun), most scholars
have now abandoned this view, linking his name instead to the village of
ʿEbro, on the Euphrat... ...riesthood (BL Add. 18295,
ff. 137b–140b): An anti-Jewish text on the abrogation of the
Israelite priesthood’,
... ... in
SymSyr IV, 217–29.
eadem, ‘And Abraham ... had faith: But in what? Ephrem and the Rabbis
on Abraham and God’s Blessings’, in The
Exegetical Encounter between Jews ...
92
...ed as the
lower writing in the palimpsest ms. Paris, Bibl. Nat. Syr. 378. An abridged
Arabic translation is also found in ms. Arabic 516 at the
... ...he text is the rather
infelicitous one by Gollancz into English, of which an abridgment into
French was made by Richer.
The Julian Romance cons... ...e and the
resulting persecution of the Christians. The second is a narrative about
Eusebius, the bp. of Rome, who facing persecution opposed Julian. The third... ...ed Julian. The third
and longest section is framed as a letter by Aploris to Abdil that describes
the reign of Jovian (Syriac ywbnynws ‘Jovinian’). In
... ...660–74) and into English by Gollancz (1928, 256–64), the latter of which was
abridged by Richer (1978, 263–8). This ‘second’ Julian Romance, which is
much shorte... ... Syriac Julian Romance (1906). (Syr.)
J. G. E. Hoffmann, Iulianos der Abtruennige .
Syrische Erzaehlungen (1880). (Syr.)
...
93
...eans literally ‘Fortress of the House
of Seleucus.’ Sometimes the toponym is abbreviated into Karka ‘Fortress’ or
Beth Slokh ‘House of Seleucus’. These various form... ...ion de l’histoire de Karka d’Bét
Slôh’,
AB
82 (1964), 189–220.
...
94
Khoury, Asmar
(1916–200?) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Khoury-Asmar
... Jacob, Cyril
); 4. a history of
Ṭur ʿAbdin
(Göteborg, 1998); 5. an account of the massacres (... ...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 577.
Macuch, Geschichte, 470.
Munūfar Barṣūm...
95
...sed in recent times. Demographically, it is primarily a
W.-Syr. feature; its absence in E.-Syr. is probably due to the fact that
Sureth, the colloquial, has... ... Gabriel
(1912–1971),
ʿAbd
al-Masīḥ Qarabashī
(1903–1983), and
... ... al-Masīḥ Qarabashī
(1903–1983), and
Abrohom Nuro
(1923–2009) who was the first to apply it in ... ...minaries
and some of the village schools in
Ṭur ʿAbdin
, and
became more popular after immigrations to Eur...
96
Macarian HomiliesContributor:
Columba Andrew
Stewart
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Macarian-Homilies
...ac Christianity.
The collections contain exhortations and responses to questions about prayer
and progress in the spiritual life. The writings emphasize conflict ... ... Epistola magna, ed. R. Staats
Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen,
Philol.-hist. Kla... ...dem
, Die Theologie des
Makarios-Symeon Abhandlungen der Akademie der
Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Philol.-hist. Klasse,...
97
...e Arabic versions
by Ḥunayn’s school quickly eclipsed them. We are, however, able to study the
Graeco-Syriac translation technique, not least since
... ...imāristān (Persian for
‘place of the sick’). Moreover, a number of important Abbasid officials who
set up Islamic hospitals — such as ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā, the ‘good v... ... idem
‘Islamic Hospitals in the Time of al-Muqtadir’, in Abbasid ... Studies: Occasional Papers of the School of
ʿAbbasid Studies, Leuven, 27 June
—
... ... Studies: Occasional Papers of the School of
ʿAbbasid Studies, Leuven, 27 June
—
... ... Studies: Occasional Papers of the School of
ʿAbbasid Studies, Leuven, 27 June
—
... ... Studies: Occasional Papers of the School of
ʿAbbasid Studies, Leuven, 27 June
—
... ... Studies: Occasional Papers of the School of
ʿAbbasid Studies, Leuven, 27 June
—
...
98
Nuḥ the Lebanese
(1451–1509) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Herman G. B.
Teule
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Nuh-the-Lebanese
... conflict which opposed
Masʿūd of Ṭur
ʿAbdin
and some senior bishops of the region.
... ...
Sources
Abbeloos and Lamy, Gregorii Barhebraei
chronicon ecclesiasticum, vol. 3, 549...
99
Nuro, Abrohom
(1923–2009) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Nuro-Abrohom
Nuro, Abrohom ...
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Nuro Abrohom
http://syriaca.org/bibl/415
406
... ... http://syriaca.org/bibl/415
406
Abrohom Nuro
http://syriaca.org/person/663
person
... ...d modern reformer. He was born Ibrahīm Kahlajī (later Syriacized
his name to Abrohom Nuro) in
Edessa
, then
... ...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 578.
Munūfar Barṣūm, Aḍwāʾ, 147–50.
...
100
Pawlos of Nisibis
(d. 573) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Pawlos-of-Nisibis
..., and bp. of Nisibis, for
which position he was selected in 544 by Cath. Mar Aba , his former
teacher.
... ...ch
position he was selected in 544 by Cath. Mar
Aba
, his former
teacher. As metropolitan bp. of Nisibi... ... Christology.
ʿAbdishoʿ of Nisibis
, in his ‘Catalogue’ (no. 65),
presents ...
101
Philoxenos of Mabbug
(ca. 440s?–523) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
David A.
Michelson
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Philoxenos-of-Mabbug
...nd Severus. Philoxenos’s cult was
strong in
Ṭur ʿAbdin
where his relics were translated to a church dedicated
... ...
Secondary Sources
L. Abramowski , ‘Aus dem Streit um das “Unus ex trinitate passus
est”, Der Protest...
102
...d for special effect. The regular use of rhyme becomes a
common feature from about the 9th cent. onwards, due to the influence of
Arabic poetry. Acrostics, bo... ... Syriac compositions, based on Ps. 51 (and other psalms).
From about the 9th cent. Syriac began to adopt various features
characteristic of Arab... ... Arabic can also be seen in many of the poems that make up
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
’s ‘Paradise of Eden’, where all sor... ...to the subject in his ‘Book of
Dialogues’ (ed. J. P. P. Martin, with FT). In about the 12th/13th cent. the
liturgical book known as the Beth Gazo emerged,
... ...e eight
tones (a system that enters the Syr. Orth. liturgical tradition from about
the 9th century, according to Cody); somewhat analogous to the Greek
... ... Emmanuel
bar Shahhare
, ʿAbdishoʿ of Soba,
Gewargis
Warda
... ... J. P. P. Martin, De la métrique chez les
Syriens Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes,
7:2; 1879). (for Yaʿqub bar Shakko)...
103
Proba
(late 6th cent.) [Syr. Orth., then Melk.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Proba-metr-of-Chalcedon
.../687
person
Metropolitan of Chalcedon. Most of what is known about
this Proba comes from the only extant fragment of Dionysios of Tel-Maḥre’s
... ...xtant fragment of Dionysios of Tel-Maḥre’s
Chronicle (CSCO 84, 219-24; GT in Abramowski ).
(late 6th cent.) [Syr. Orth., then Melk.]
... ...., then Melk.]
Metropolitan of Chalcedon. Most of what is known about this Proba comes from
the only extant fragment of
... ... of Tel Maḥre
’s Chronicle (CSCO 84, 219–24; GT in Abramowski ). In
ca. 581 Patr.
Peter of... ...
Sources
R. Abramowski , Dionysius von
Tellmahre ( Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 25:2;
1940), 138–42.
...
104
Qarqaphto, Monastery of
[Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Jonathan A.
Loopstra
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Qarqaphto-Monastery-of
... vocal opponents of Martin was Isaac Hall who
fought against what he called Abbé Martin’s hoax’ (Hall 1885) in published
articles and in presentations to th... ... J. Khoury, Le candélabre du sanctuaire de
Grégoire Abou’lfaradj dit Barhebraeus (PO 31.1;
1964).
P. Martin, ‘T...
105
Sawma, Abrohom
(1913–1996) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Sawma-Abrohom
Sawma, Abrohom ...
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Sawma Abrohom
http://syriaca.org/bibl/483
474
... ... http://syriaca.org/bibl/483
474
Abrohom Sawma
http://syriaca.org/person/720
person
... ...967–1990). He also wrote Mtumoyuto d-suryoye (São
Paulo, 1996) and a play on Abgar V Ukkama in Arabic.
Sources
... ...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 576.
Macuch, Geschichte, 470.
Munūfar Barṣūm...
106
Scher, Addai
(1867–1915) [Chald.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Scher-Addai
...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 544–50.
J.-M. Fiey, ‘L’apport de Mgr Addai Scher (†1915) à l’hagiogr... ...er (†1915) à l’hagiographie
orientale’,
AB
83 (1965), 121–42.
Macuch, Geschichte, 402–5.
...
107
Shahdost
(fl. first half of the 8th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Shahdost
...
Bp. of Ṭirhan. According to the ‘Catalogue’ of
ʿAbdishoʿ
(chap. 111), Shahdost wrote a ‘synodical oration, some
... ...
Sources
L. Abramowski and A. E. Goodman, A
Nestorian Collection of Christological Texts ...
108
Synodicon Orientale
[Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Synodicon-Orientale
... contains additional materials pertaining to Cath. Mar
Aba I
and
Ḥenanishoʿ II
... ...ek theological writings; the
monastic canons of
Abraham of
Kashkar
and his successor Dadishoʿ on Mount... ...shoʿ bar Nun
(d. 828),
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Bahrīz
(early 9th cent.),
... ... cath.
Cath.
Aba I (544, followed by
several documents);
... ...n 1900. J.-B. Chabot,
while he was planning an edition of the same part, was able to use a second
copy of the Alqosh ms., which subsequently became ms. Paris...
109
Theodoros bar Koni
(fl. end of the 8th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Aaron M.
Butts
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Theodoros-bar-Koni
...n, with previous
literature, see Griffith 1981, 161–4). Little else is known about ... his life.
In his ‘Catalogue’,
ʿAbdishoʿ
attributes the
following works to Bar Koni (Assema... ...mrā is an important representative of
Muslim-Christian dialogue in the early Abbasid period (see Islam,
Syriac contacts with).
The 11th ... ...CPG
3765), an abridgement of the
Panar... ... A Nestorian Summa contra Gentiles from
the First Abbasid Century’, in East of
Byzantium, ed. Garsoian et al., 53–72.
...
110
Yaʿqub of Nisibis
(d. 337/8) Contributor:
Joseph P.
Amar
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yaqub-of-Nisibis
...me appears in a variety of late antique sources, trustworthy
historical data about him are quite limited. The closest we have to an
... ... P. Peeters, ‘La légende de saint Jacques de Nisibe’,
AB
38 (1920), 285–373.
...
111
de Lagarde, Paul Anton
(1827–1891) Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/de-Lagarde-Paul-Anton
...Hebrew characters). He also planned a series entitled Bibliotheca Syriaca, of which, however, he was able
to prepare only the first volume which, after his death, his student A.
... ... ‘Persian, Armenian, and Indian words in Syriac’
(included in his Gesammelte Abhandlungen ), which is
often quoted in C. Brockelmann’s Lexicon
... ... (1861).
Gesammelte Abhandlungen (1866).
(1–84: ‘Persische, armenische und indische Wörter im
...
112
Alqosh, School of
(2nd half of the 16th cent. onwards) Contributor:
Alessandro
Mengozzi
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Alqosh-School-of
... A group of E.-Syr. authors and scribes, most of them priests, who
brought about a remarkable revival of literary activities among E.-Syr.
communities in N.... ...
E.-Syr. authors and scribes, most of them priests, who brought about a
remarkable revival of literary activities among E.-Syr. communities in N.... ... sympathies and were involved in the Uniate movement. These include
ʿAbdishoʿ of Gazarta
, Adam of ʿAqra (who wrote a hymn on Rabban
... ... , Stephen of Alqosh (Chald., 19th cent.);
Anne of Telkepe, Yawsep ʿAbbaya of Alqosh, Thomas Ḥanna of Karamlish
(Chald., end 19th–first half 20th cent...
113
...
P. Peeters, ‘Le passionnaire d’Adiabène’,
AB
43 (1925), 261–304.
D. Sourdel, ‘Irbil’, in EI...
114
Armalah, Isḥāq
Armalet, Isaac (1879–1954) [Syr. Cath.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Armalah-Ishaq
...y
articles, especially in al-Machriq. He also copied
about 35 mss., mostly kept in Sharfeh. His best-known works include a Syriac
anth... ...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 555.
M. al-Jamil, Taʾrīkh wa-siyar. Kahanat al-suryān
...
115
Audo, Toma
Toma Odo (1855–1918) [Chald.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Audo-Toma
...
where he served under his uncle’s successor Patr. Eliya ʿAbū al-Yūnan. He
later served as patriarchal vicar to
... ... and Salamas in
1892, and participated in the Synod that elected Patr. ʿAbdishoʿ Khayyāṭ in
1894. During the persecutions that occurred during World War I, ... ...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 498–500.
Macuch, Geschichte, 211–3.
G. Ouss...
116
Bar ʿEbroyo, Grigorios
Grigorios Abū al-Faraj, Barhebraeus (1225/6–1286) [Syr.
Orth.] Contributor:
Hidemi
Takahashi
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Bar-Ebroyo-Grigorios
... 74
Grigorios Bar ʿEbroyo
Abū al-Faraj
Barhebraeus
http://syriaca.org/person/239
... ...c Renaissance of the 12th–13th cent.
Grigorios Abū al-Faraj, Barhebraeus (1225/6–1286) [Syr.
Orth.]
... ...ism: ‘Ethicon’, ‘Book of the dove’ (K. d-yawno), ‘Childhood of the mind’ (Ṭalyut hawno, unfinished), abridgement of/commentary
on the Book of Hierotheos (unpublished; see
... ...-tanbīhāt (Remze wa-mʿironwoto, unpublished), translation of
Athīr al-Dīn al Abharī’s ‘Cream of secrets’ (Zubdat
al-asrār, lost); also two Arabic treatises o... ...ation of dreams (lost).
12. Medicine/Pharmacology: Book of Dioscorides (lost), abridgement of
Ghāfiqī’s ‘Book of simple drugs’ (Muntakhab kitāb jāmiʿ
... ... Syr. Orth.
Patr. Libr
6.17), abridgement of
Ḥunayn b.
Isḥāq
... ... ’s ‘De usu
partium’, lost), Book of the great Canon of Abū ʿAlī (
i.e.
i.e.,
... ...entary on Ḥunayn’s ‘Medical questions’ (lost).
13. Liturgical works: revision abridgement ) of the Anaphora of St. James,
revision of the rite of baptism, commentary ...
117
Barḥadbshabba ʿArbaya
(late 6th / early 7th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Adam H.
Becker
Jeff W.
Childers
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Barhadbshabba-Arbaya
...nd the School of Nisibis up to the death of
Abraham of
Beth Rabban
, head of the School of Nisibis ... ..., with the
Ecclesiastical History mentioned by
ʿAbdishoʿ
(see
below). The ‘Cause’ attributed to Barḥadbshab... ...s have both been attributed to a Barḥadbshabba, but scholars
have not agreed about his identity and whether he is one and the same
person. Two contemporary fi... ...re actually one and the same person, as some scholars
believe. To the former ʿAbdishoʿ attributes: ‘a book of treasures in three
parts, and disputes (drāše) with ... ...(ms. Cambridge Or. Oo. 1. 22). Perhaps the
commentary on Psalms mentioned by ʿAbdishoʿ is the source of the quotation
attributed to a Barḥadbshabba in a later psa...
118
Bello, Estipān
(1910–1989) [Chald.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Bello-Estipan
... of Jūnā Mīkhā Ballo and Teresa Mīkhā Sāko and given the
baptismal name ʿAbd al-Aḥad (he is somewhat related to the family of Patr.
... ...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 514–5.
Macuch, Geschichte, 416.
...
119
... Overview of attempts at collecting and systematizing
knowledge about Syriac Christian authors and their writings, from 13th cent. compilations to contemporary printed a... ...
The earliest attempts at collecting and systematizing knowledge about Syriac
Christian authors and their writings can be traced back to the Syria... ... themselves. One might refer to the ‘Catalogue of Books’ by
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
(d. 1318), a poem listing all Syria... ... 2005) covers grammatical studies. In the field of Syriac literature, the
absence of a fully updated version of Baumstark is compensated to a certain
extent ...
120
China, Syriac Christianity inContributor:
Hidemi
Takahashi
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/China-Syriac-Christianity-in
...yya (VI.1.41,
ed. Hoenerbach-Spies II.138.7–8),
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
’s Nomocanon (IX.1, ed. Mai 317a
... ...e is little
evidence to support the historicity of the tradition reported by ʿAbdishoʿ
(Nomocanon VIII.15, ed. Mai 304a 20–21) which
c... ...–414) and Shila (503–523) with the
erection of a metropolitan see for China. ʿAbdishoʿ himself gives the credit
to Ṣliba Zka (714–28), while Ishoʿyahb (probably
... ... , told on the authority of Timotheos, of Dawid, a monk of
Beth ʿAbe
, being elected metropolitan for ‘Beth
Ṣinaye’ (‘Bo...
121
Chronicle of 1234
Edessene Chronicle [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Jan J.
van Ginkel
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Chronicle-of-1234
...ces. He also uses pseudepigraphical material, especially for the time
before Abraham , most notably from Jubilees and the Cave of
Treasures. There are also t... ...
Sources
A. Abouna and J.-M. Fiey, Anonymi
auctoris Chronicon ad A. C. 1234 pertinens...
122
Coptic Christianity, Syriac contacts withContributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Coptic-Christianity-Syriac-contacts-with
...ism attracted
interest and visits from Syr. Christians, and several writings about the
Desert Fathers became known in Syr. as early as the 5th cent. It is ver... ...s were divided between Chalcedonians and anti-Chalcedonians, the
latter were able in the course of the 6th cent. to build a church structure
that became the ... ...continued to be
used within the individual churches.
The absence of any dogmatic barrier made it possible for Syr. Christians to
fully integ... ...he Syr. element in the early 17th cent. should be seen
rather as the gradual absorption of the Syr. monks into the mainstream of
Coptic life than as a radical ling... ...rk carried out at the beginning of the 10th cent. by Yuḥanon
bar Maqari, the abbot of Dayr al-Suryān, may be found in Syr. ms. Dayr
al-Suryān 30. In this ms.,... ... Mushe of
Nisibis
(the later abbot ), Yuḥanon is credited with the
translation ‘from the Egyptian tongue into S... ... Pontus
, which he helped bind in 894, when he already was abbot .
The Syr. impact on the Coptic liturgical tradition is significant. Many Sy... ...as well, either as
pilgrims and visitors (e.g.,
Aba
123
Daniel of Ṣalaḥ
(fl. mid-6th cent.) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
David G. K.
Taylor
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Daniel-of-Salah
...//syriaca.org/person/59
person
Biblical exegete, theologian, abbot and possibly
bp.
... ... (fl. mid-6th cent.) [Syr. Orth.]
Biblical exegete, theologian, abbot and possibly bp. Although he is one of
the most influential Syr. Orth. writ... ...ne of Daniel’s writings have been
fully edited, and the little that is known about his life is almost entirely
dependent upon these texts. In a homily (on Ps.... ...fixed correspondence in which
Daniel is requested to write the commentary by Abbot Yuḥanon of the
monastery of Mor Eusebios of Kaprā d-Bartā (or d-Birtā) nort... ...Apamea
(the modern twin villages of Kefr and Bara). Abbot Yuḥanon is listed in the
Chronicle of
Michael ... ... Yuḥanon had disappeared from the scene, for one Qustantinos is listed as
abbot of this important monastery.
Assemani also linked Daniel with the village of Ṣa... ... Assemani also linked Daniel with the village of Ṣalaḥ in
Ṭur ʿAbdin
(southeast Turkey), and this has been followed by ... ...tr. Ignatius Afram Barsoum who instead links Daniel to Ṣaliḥiye (near
modern Abū Kāmāl in Syria) on the left bank of the Euphrates just south of
ancient
...
124
Daoud, Francis
(1870–1939) [Chald.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Daoud-Francis
...hn
. He was ordained a priest in 1893 by Patr.
Eliya ʿAbū al-Yūnān, and in 1910 was consecrated bp. for al-ʿAmadiyya by
Patr. Emmanue... ...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 507.
Macuch, Geschichte, 412.
...
125
Dinno, Niʿmatullāh
(1885–1951) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Khalid
Dinno
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Dinno-Nimatullah
...eform-minded educator. He was born in
Mosul
to ʿAbd
al-Karīm Dinno and grew up at a time when his Church was at the low ebb,
... ...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 560–2.
Lisan al-Mashriq, Mosul 3 (1951)...
126
Diodore of Tarsus
(late 4th cent.) Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Diodore-of-Tarsus
... CPG
3815–3822.
L. Abramowski , ‘Diodore de Tarse’, in
DHGE
, vol. 14... ... DHGE
, vol. 14 (1960), 496–504.
R. Abramowski , ‘Der theologische Nachlass des Diodor von Tarsus’,
...
127
...hrem, but which largely contain madrāše that must
be slightly later, are: on Abraham of Qidun and Yulyana Saba (ed. Beck, CSCO
322–3); on the Confessors (ed. Be... ...
Primary Sources
For Syr. editions, see above . There are bilingual editions of On
the Nativity (Syr. with AT by J...
128
Exegesis, New TestamentContributor:
Craig E.
Morrison
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Exegesis-New-Testament
... in later prose commentaries. Since most Syriac authors
were rarely explicit about their hermeneutical approach, their methods for
interpreting the Bible are ... ...re bar Koni’s Scholion: a Nestorian Summa
contra gentiles from the first Abbasid century’, in East of Byzantium, ed. Garsoian et al., 53–72.
...
129
Exegesis, Old TestamentContributor:
Bas
ter Haar Romeny
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Exegesis-Old-Testament
... commentaries on other books of the OT as well, as the monk Severos and
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
claim, but this can no longer be as... ... anonymous author of the Book of Steps
uses biblical interpretation to teach about a perfect, ascetic way of life.
The author has a number of ideas in common ... ...ce of the radical allegorizing trend of some
Alexandrians, who were ready to abandon the plain sense of Scripture
altogether. Though Yaʿqub and other Miaphysite... ... have come down to us. It appears that the shorter ones
constitute abbreviations of the longer ones, which date back to the 5th and
6th cent.
... ...te back to the 5th and
6th cent.
Terminus ad quem for the abbreviated
versions of the three authors just mentioned is the so-called London
... ...very small part
of the Bible (Gen.–Ex. 9:32), but Van Rompay (1977) has been able to show
that this work formed the core of
Isho... ...ether with fragments of the
exegetical memre of
Aba II of
Kashkar
(d. 751). The Gannat Bussāme is
... ...tion.
The Later W.-Syr. Exegetical Tradition
As we have seen above , in the 7th cent. W.-Syr. exegesis was very much
dominated by a number of G...
130
Gabriel of Baṣra
(fl. late 9th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Hubert
Kaufhold
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Gabriel-of-Basra
...f Baṣra; author of a collection of juridical texts. Next to
nothing is known about Gabriel’s life, except that he was metropolitan in
884 and in 893. In the l... ...
Ishoʿ bar Nun
,
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Bahrīz
, and from the so-called Syro-Roman ... ... Orientale). Gabriel did not reproduce these sources literally, but
abbreviated and reworked them. The first part of the collection deals with
matrimonial ... ... reconstructed with the help of the Syriac Nomocanon of
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
(d. 1318) and of the second part of...
131
... idem
, ‘De Geoponicon versione syriaca’, in his Gesammelte Abhandlungen (1866), 120–46.
J. Habbi, ‘Testi geoponici classici in siriaco e arabo’, i...
132
Gewargis of Arbela, Pseudo-
(9th cent.?) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Gewargis-of-Arbela-Pseudo-
...gis of Arbela’
(another wrong attribution is to
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Bahrīz
). The chapters in each section prov... ... includes the short ‘Commentary on the (liturgical) Services’ by
Abraham bar Lipeh
of
Beth Qaṭraye
... ...raye
(II, 161–80); in many places this is simply an abbreviation of
Gabriel Qaṭraya
’s Commentary.
...
133
Giwargis of Bʿeltan
(Patr. 758–789) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Witold
Witakowski
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Giwargis-of-Beltan
...eceased anti-patriarch.
Dawid accused Giwargis of tax irregularities, and Caliph Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbdullāh
al-Manṣūr (754–75) put him in prison for nine years (767–75). After this
... Jaʿfar ʿAbdullāh
al-Manṣūr (754–75) put him in prison for nine years (767–75). After this
... ...
Primary Sources
Abbeloos and Lamy, Gregorii Barhebraei
chronicon ecclesiasticum, vol. 1,...
134
Greek, Syriac translations fromContributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Greek-Syriac-translations-from
... role in the ‘translation
movement’ of the late 8th and 9th centuries under Abbasid patronage, which
provided the Arabic-speaking world with the Greek intellec... ...a work has been lost, and
only the Syriac translation survives. This applies above all to patristic
authors whose works were subsequently suppressed in the Gr... ...ng Greek philosophical, scientific, and medical
literature, sponsored by the Abbasid Caliphs in
Baghdad
in the late
... ...tly amongst those translated into Syriac, Plato’s
writings are conspicuously absent .
In the course of the 9th–11th cent., when the Melkite Church replaced the
... ...c translation technique: the
background to Syriac translations under the Abbasids ’,
JCSSS
4 (2004), 3–14.
...
135
... geographer Yāqūt in his Muʿjam al-buldān and the
place where Abraham and his family sojourned according to the Book of
Genesis, Ḥarran had becom... ...Egeria visited Ḥarran in 383, the town had a Christian bp., and the
house of Abraham , which stood outside the city, had been turned into a
church, but the popul... ... the book’. Ḥarran was considered
a center of pagan Greek learning under the Abbasids , especially for the
mathematical sciences. The Ḥarranians were probably the... ...
— and, more famously,
Theodoros Abū
Qurra
(ca. 755 – ca. 830).
... ...ibis
, counted among its occupants the canonist
ʿAbdishoʿ bar Bahrīz
(early 9th cent.) and the future Cath.
...
136
Ḥenana
(d. ca. 610) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Jeff W.
Childers
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Henana
...at the School of
Nisibis during the time of
Abraham of
Beth Rabban
(d. 569). After serving as a te... ... Reputed to be a follower of Origen and a Chalcedonian sympathizer who had
abandoned the orthodox theological tradition of such teachers as
Theodore
... ... liturgy.
ʿAbdishoʿ
credits Ḥenana with having written a number
of com...
137
Ḥenanishoʿ I
(d. 699/700) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Henanisho-I
...
Nisibis
, who had the support of Caliph ʿAbd al-Malik. Only partly
recovered from ill-treatment (whence he was called ḥg... ...riarch for only a brief period (less than two years),
but Ḥenanishoʿ was not able to fully resume his position, and the
patriarchal throne remained vacant fo... ... , has not been preserved in direct
transmission. Reinink, however, has been able to identify several extracts
from it in the following sources: 1. ms. Vat. ... ... exegesis with that of his younger
contemporary
Aba II of
Kashkar
(d. 751).
Th... ...ibuted to Ḥenanishoʿ by either ʿAmr b.
Mattā or
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
give some impression of his multifa... ... give some impression of his multifaceted interests and
abilities . They include, among other things: a biography of his contemporary
Sargis D...
138
Ignatius Yaʿqub III
(1912–1980) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Ignatius-Yaqub-III
...Gabriel Mari and Shmuni Isḥaq Mtuka, and was given the baptismal name Shābā
ʿAbd al-Aḥad). He attended the seminary at
Dayro d-Mor
... ...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 570–2.
Macuch, Geschichte, 453–5.
Munūfar Ba...
139
...ok (Talay
2003) have been published in recent years.
Ṭur ʿAbdin
The inscriptions from this region have been conveniently brought together by
... ...ortant inscriptions on the wooden doors of the church are
from the period of abbot
Mushe of
Nisibis
... ...rni di Semitistica 21; 2004).
A. Palmer, ‘A corpus of inscriptions from Ṭūr ʿAbdīn and environs’,
OC
...
140
Ishaʿya of Beth Sbirina
(d. 1425) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Ishaya-of-Beth-Sbirina
...st, son of Denḥo, and author of two poems on the
ravages of Tamerlane in Ṭur ʿAbdin (one, ed. Knos, also in Qolo Suryoyo 73 [1990], 116-22; the other, ed.
Card... ...amerlane in
Ṭur
ʿAbdin
(one, ed. Knös, also in Qolo Suryoyo
73 [1990], 11...
141
Ishoʿ bar Nun
(d. 828) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Isho-bar-Nun
... , around 745. He
studied with
Abraham bar
Dashandad
and, possibly after a short peri... ... at the Great Monastery on Mt.
Izla (founded by
Abraham of
Kashkar
), where he also taught. Ishoʿ bar N...
142
Ishoʿbokht of Rev Ardashir
(late 8th cent.?) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Ishobokht-of-Rev-Ardashir
... ,
from whose law book Zoroastrian doctrines and practices are largely absent
(see under Shemʿon). Dauvillier regards Ishoʿbokht as a powerful and
... ... Rechtsbuch Mātakdān i Hazār Dātistān (Teil
II) Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 45.1;
1981).
ead...
143
Ishoʿyahb III of Adiabene
(d. 659) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Ishoyahb-III-of-Adiabene
...downer named Bastomag. He became a monk of the nearby
Monastery of Beth ʿAbe
, but was appointed bp. of
Nineveh
... ...n use to the present three. In
his ‘Catalogue’
ʿAbdishoʿ
attributes to him the
arrangement of the Ḥudrā, th... ...on in some cases cannot be correct. These
convey a great deal of information about the life of the Ch. of E. during
the period of the transition from Persian ...
144
Jamīl, Shmuʾel
Samuel Giamil (1847–1917) [Chald.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Jamil-Shmuel
...
Monastery of Rabban Hormizd
, whose Abbot ... then was Elishaʿ Tīshā.
In 1869, he accompanied his Abbot and Patr. Yawsep Audo to the first Vatican
Council, and there attended the ... ... then was Elishaʿ Tīshā.
In 1869, he accompanied his Abbot and Patr. Yawsep Audo to the first Vatican
Council, and there attended the ... ...ablished a school there in 1880. In 1885 he was appointed by Patriarch
Eliya ʿAbū al-Yūnān to visit the faithful of the northern areas. He was
appointed a vi... ... the church. In 1895 he served as a delegate to the Vatican for Patriarch
ʿAbdishoʿ Khayyāṭ for seven years. He was elected a general Abbot for the
Chald. monks three times (1881–1983/4, 1887–94, and 1900–1917).
... Khayyāṭ for seven years. He was elected a general Abbot for the
Chald. monks three times (1881–1983/4, 1887–94, and 1900–1917).
... ...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 496–8.
S. Giamil, Monte Singar. Storia d’un popolo
...
145
Malankara Orthodox Syrian ChurchContributor:
Baby
Varghese
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Malankara-Orthodox-Syrian-Church
...the relationship with the E.-Syr. Church was apparently
strong, but this was abruptly broken by the Portuguese presence in the
Indian subcontinent. In the so-cal... ...exis Menezis, Archbishop of Goa, with the
support of the king of Cochin, was able to bring the St. Thomas Christians
under the authority of Rome. In 1653 the... ...mous Coonan Cross. As they wanted to retain Syriac
language and liturgy, and above all the ecclesiastical independence, they
wrote letters to various Eastern ... ...mous Coonan Cross. As they wanted to retain Syriac
language and liturgy, and above all the ecclesiastical independence, they
wrote letters to various Eastern ... ... was
unwilling to fight against the reformers, abdicated in favour of a
visiting Antiochian prelate named Yoyakim Mar Koorilose. Tho... ... first decade of the 20th cent., the relationship between the Patr. Mar
ʿAbdullāh II
and Mar Geevarghese Mar Dionysios became
tense ... ... Dionysios invited Patr.
ʿAbdulmasīḥ II
, who was
deposed by th... ...two Catholicoi and two synods.
The Malankara Orthodox Church has a membership of about 1 million, 1100
parishes, 1200 priests, and 18 bishops. There are several s...
146
... P. A. Mirecki, ‘Manichaeans and Manichaeism’, in
ABD
, vol. 4, 502–11.
C. G. Stroumsa, ‘Asp...
147
Maqdisī, Jeremiah
(1847–1929) [Chald.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Maqdisi-Jeremiah
...logic (ms.), and another on literary theology (partly
published according to Abūna ).
Sources
... ...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 504–5.
Macuch, Geschichte, 408–9.
...
148
... S. P. Brock, ‘An early Syriac Life of Maximus the Confessor’,
AB
91 (1973), 299–346. (repr. in Syriac Perspectives on Late Antiquity [1...
149
Menander, Syriac sentences ofContributor:
Ute
Possekel
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Menander-Syriac-sentences-of
...1.
T. Baarda, ‘Syriac Menander’, in
ABD
,
vol. 6 (1992), 281f.
...
150
Michael I Rabo
(d. 1199) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Dorothea
Weltecke
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Michael-I-Rabo
...us were inserted, which interrupted the
system of columns. After an open and abrupt end, six appendices follow. The
first appendix is a monumental synopsis of ... ...
Secondary Sources
R. Abramowski , Dionysius von Tellmahre.
Jakobitischer Patriarch von 818–845. ...
151
Naqqāsheh, Afram
(1850–1920) [Syr. Cath.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Naqqasheh-Afram
...
He was born in
Mosul
to ʿAbdulaḥad b. Eliās Naqqāsheh and Khāliṣah daughter of
Qas Boutros and given the bapti... ...[catalogue, 281]),
and translated from Latin into Syriac a theological book Abūna gives the
Arabic title mukhtaṣar ʿilm al-lāhūt al-adabī [The
... ...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 541–2.
I. Armalah, Taʾrīkh dayr sayyidat al-najāt ay
...
152
Narsai
(d. ca. 500) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Narsai
...y), Narsai was orphaned at the age of sixteen and educated by his
uncle, the abbot of the Monastery of Kfar Mari, west of the Tigris. At an
unknown date he we... ...ces blame on the bp.’s wife, Mamai, and
which resulted in Narsai’s temporary absence from Nisibis, he remained the
head of the new School until his death (ca. 5... ...
Secondary Sources
L. Abramowski , ‘Narsai, Ephräm und Kyrill über Jesu
Verlassenheitsruf, Mt. 27,46’...
153
Nau, François
(1864–1931) Contributor:
Françoise
Briquel-Chatonnet
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Nau-Francois
...l et de la terre. Cours d’astronomie rédigé en 1279
par Grégoire Aboulfarag , dit Bar-Hebraeus (2 vols.;
1899).
...
154
Nestorius
(ca. 381? – ca. 450) Contributor:
George A.
Bevan
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Nestorius
... and likely induced the emperor to issue a new edict against a whole
host of aberrant beliefs (Codex Theodosianus 16.5.66; 20 May 428). He likely
also celebrated... ...
Secondary Sources
L. Abramowski , Untersuchungen zum Liber
Heraclidis des Nestorius (CSCO 242; 1...
155
...vocative paradigm for the sudden collapse of a mighty empire. But as
stories about the destruction of Assyrian Nineveh percolated in Classical
and Near Easter... ...ng of this past was fragmentary, distorted, and
sometimes fantastic. Stories about imperial Nineveh included the aphorisms
of the Assyrian sage
... ... haunt for the revelries of Islamic visitors, who penned
enthusiastic verses about its wine (Fiey 1965, 2, 500). At some point in the
10th cent., if not befor... ...
J. Reade
idem
, ‘More about Adiabene’, Iraq 63
(2001), 187–99.
S. J. Simpso...
156
Nūrī, Athanasios Ignatios
(1857–1947) [Syr. Cath.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Nuri-Athanasios-Ignatios
... Mardin
to Niʿmatallāh Nūrī and Katherine daughter of ʿAbdulmasīḥ
Tarzi and was given the baptismal name Naṣrallāh. He studied at
... ...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 550–51.
Macuch, Geschichte, 436–37.
...
157
Pawlos of Tella
(first half of 7th cent.) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Pawlos-of-Tella
...rg, Catalogues,
47a). The Syriac translation of the pericope John 7:50–8:12 absent from the
Peshitta and Ḥarqlean), which is sometimes attributed to Pawlo... ...metropolitans, relatives of the Emperor Maurice:
Dometianus of Melitene about
580 — January
580 – January
...
158
Polykarpos
(ca. 500) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Andreas
Juckel
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Polykarpos
... (the so-called Philoxenian version). The only
information about Polykarpos derives from his contemporary
Mushe of
... ... Bar ʿEbroyo
, Ecclesiastical History, ed.
Abbeloos and Lamy, I, 50 = vol. 1, col. 267; II, 22 = vol. 3, col. 89;
proem to the ... ...s. Rome, Bibl. Angelica 74. The choice of these scholars
was directed by the absence of annotations from these codices. They are,
however, nothing other than Ḥa... ...ome of the OT
since Mushe of Aggel mentions the Psalms alongside the NT (see above ).
Moreover, a quotation of Is. 9:6 in the Milan Syro-Hexapla
... ... profana, vol. 5.1 (1868).
I. Guidi, ‘Mose di Aghel e Simeone Abbate ’, Rendiconti della R. Accademia dei Lincei (1886),
397–416.
...
159
Psalms, Syriac ApocryphalContributor:
Aaron M.
Butts
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Psalms-Syriac-Apocryphal
... Secondary Sources
S. C. Pigué, in
ABD
, vol. 5,
536–7.
...
160
Qarabashī, ʿAbd al-Masīḥ Nuʿmān
(1903–1983) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Mor Polycarpus Augin
Aydin
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Qarabashi-Abd-al-Masih-Numan
Qarabashī, ʿAbd ... al-Masīḥ Nuʿmān
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Qarabashi Abd -al-Masih-Numan
http://syriaca.org/bibl/449
440
... ... http://syriaca.org/bibl/449
440
ʿAbd al-Masīḥ Nuʿmān Qarabashī
http://syriaca.org/person/691
per... ...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 567–8.
Munūfar Barṣūm, Aḍwāʾ, 85–92
Macuch, ...
161
Qiryo, Yuḥanna
(1874–1946) [Chald.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Qiryo-Yuhanna
... Italian into Syriac a number of books including a book on
Alphonse Liguori Abūna gives the title in Arabic faḍāʾil
al-qiddīs Alphonse Liguori ‘Virtues o... ...aphy of St. Jirardis Magla (Mosul, 1932), a two-volume book also by
Liguori Abūna gives the title in Arabic hidāyat
al-nufūs ‘Guidance of the souls’) (vo... ...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 507–8.
Macuch, Geschichte, 412–3.
...
162
Quryaqos
Kyriakos (d. 817) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Witold
Witakowski
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Quryaqos
...in 795) did not bring the controversy to
its end. On the contrary it brought about an open schism, as all other
dissidents united with the party of the follow... ...in the dissenting bishops were deposed. Then they
elected a monk of Qarṭmin, Abraham , an anti-patriarch. He sought recognition
by the Coptic Patr. Markos, but d... ...
Primary Sources
Abbeloos and Lamy, Gregorii Barhebraei
chronicon ecclesiasticum, vol. I,...
163
Saba, Boutros
(1893–1961) [Syr. Cath.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Saba-Boutros
...tings, he composed in Syriac
a number of poems (a few published according to Abūna ).
Sources
... ...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 562–3.
Macuch, Geschichte, 445–6.
...
164
Sachau, Eduard
(1845–1930) Contributor:
Hubert
Kaufhold
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Sachau-Eduard
... on behalf of the Prussian government
to Syria and Mesopotamia, where he was able to acquire many Syriac mss. for
the library of Berlin. Sachau himself descr... ... Zur Ausbreitung des Christentums in
Asien Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der
Wissenschaften, Jahrgang 1919, philos...
165
Samuel, Athanasios Yeshuʿ
(1907–1995) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Samuel-Athanasios-Yeshu
...gypt and became editor of the Patriarchal Magazine
(Jerusalem). He became an abbot of the monastery and in 1946 was consecrated
bp. of Jerusalem.
... ...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 575.
M. Burrows, The Dead Sea Scrolls of St. Mark’s
...
166
Sargis bar Waḥle
(ca. 1500) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Herman G. B.
Teule
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Sargis-bar-Wahle
...Diyarbakır 76, is said
to have been written in a more natural style (Scher). Abūna’s and Macuch’s
assumption that Sargis is also the author of
... ...
Secondary Sources
Abūna , Adab, 513–4.
Baumstark, Literatur, 330–1.
...
167
Shubḥalmaran
(d. 620?) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
David J.
Lane
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Shubhalmaran
...included in the lists of ascetical writers in Mesopotamia catalogued by
ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha
and
Ishoʿdnaḥ
... ...d on the end times
are preserved with others by
Abraham of
Nathpar
and Barḥadbshabba in the 9th-cent. ... ...ters ... for brethren to live in accord’; Fols.
60r–62r contain ‘Revelations about the assembly of believers’. Fol. 62r-v
provide ‘Dark sayings of our Lord an... ...ssembly of believers’. Fol. 62r-v
provide ‘Dark sayings of our Lord and Paul about ... the last time’, and Fols.
62v–73r ‘Revelations about ... the last time’, and Fols.
62v–73r ‘Revelations about ... the last time’, and Fols.
62v–73r ‘Revelations about ... the last time’, and Fols.
62v–73r ‘Revelations about
168
Sṭephanos bar Ṣudayli
(6th cent.) Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Stephanos-bar-Sudayli
...xenos
, bp.
of Mabbug, who between 512 and 518 wrote about Sṭephanos to two priests in
Edessa
... ...priests in
Edessa
, Abraham and Orestes, who had been in touch with
Sṭephanos. They are strongly warned... ...nysian writings to promote their master’s teachings.
In spite of the controversy about its authorship, the ‘Book’ enjoyed
popularity in the Syr. Orth. Church. Com... ... esp.
302–32.
T. Jansma, ‘Philoxenus’ Letter to Abraham and Orestes concerning
Stephen bar Sudaili. Some proposals with regard ...
169
Syriac Catholic ChurchContributor:
Amir
Harrak
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Syriac-Catholic-Church
...
Sources
M. al-Jamīl, al Abrašiyyāt al-suryāniyya
min 1900 ilā 2003 (2003).
C. ...
170
Tappuni, Gabriel
(1879–1968) [Syr. Cath.] Contributor:
Amir
Harrak
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Tappuni-Gabriel
... Mīkhāʾīl al-Jamīl, Al-salāsil
al-taʾrīkhiyya fī asāqifat al abrašiyyāt al-suryāniyya min 1900 ilā
2003 [Historical Lists of the Bishops of...
171
...of varying size and
identifications of their own (e.g., the ‘Three Cells’ of Abba Zenon, the
Monastery of ‘the Fathers’, of ‘Salomon’, of the ‘Antonines’). T... ... milieu of theological controversy and
negotiation. This milieu helped bring about a settlement, in 616, of the
schism between the Coptic and Syriac Miaphysit... ...
Sources
F.-M. Abel , ‘To Ennaton’,
OC
...
172
Theodosios
Romanos the physician (d. 896) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Theodosios-patr
... Patr. Theodosios’ (Ecclesiastical
History
, ed. Abbeloos and Lamy, vol. 1, 389–92); this is, however,
not preserved. In another wor... ...4–90.
Graf, GCAL, vol. 2, 233.
Pinggéra (see above ), 157–68.
M. Tamcke, ‘Theodosios’
...
173
Timotheos I
(727/8–823) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
David D.
Bundy
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Timotheos-I
... . In Bashosh and Marga he studied with the famed scholar
Abraham bar Dashandad
. Abraham was renowned as a scholar of the
Bible and of
... ...from Greek into Syriac and Arabic. More than two hundred letters
were known, about 59 of which survive. Timotheos was also the author of ‘The
Ordinances of Ec... ...blical text.
Timotheos also wrote, according to
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
, a commentary on a text of
...
174
Tumo of Ḥarqel
(ca. 570–640) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Andreas
Juckel
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Tumo-of-Harqel
... link him with persons and events of his time and provide a general idea
about the chronology of his life.
Bar ʿEbroyo
,
... ...and severe
restrictions for the Miaphysites followed. In those days Tumo was about
sixty years old, he died ca. 640. An anonymous Syriac account of Tumo’s lif... ...metropolitans, relatives of the Emperor Maurice:
Dometianus of Melitene about 580
—
–
...
175
...yo is the collective name for the various Modern
Syriac dialects used in Ṭur ʿAbdin .
Ṭuroyo is the collectiv... ...cts used in
Ṭur
ʿAbdin
. Its place within the spectrum of Modern Aramaic is closer
...
176
Yaʿqub bar Shakko
Severos bar Shakko (d. 1241) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yaqub-bar-Shakko
...
Mosul
. He was first a monk and subsequently abbot and bp. of the
Dayro d-Mor Matay, with the episcopal name Severos (accordin... ... Syriens (Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft,
Abhandlungen 7:2; 1879). (Book of Dialogues, Book I, On
poetry)
...
177
Yaʿqub of Edessa
(ca. 630–708) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Alison G.
Salvesen
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yaqub-of-Edessa
... , Pawlos of
Antioch, Eustathios of Dara, Qurisona of Dara, the priest Abrohom , the
deacon Gewargis, the sculptor Toma, and Barḥadbshabba.
... ...
Sources
Abbeloos and Lamy, Gregorii Barhebraei
chronicon ecclesiasticum, vol. 1, 289...
178
Yaʿqub of Serugh
(ca. 451–521) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yaqub-of-Serugh
... the Church’; bp.
of Baṭnan da-Srug (519–21). Most of the little information about his life
comes from two notices (ed. Assemani, BibOr, vol. 1,
... ... comes from two notices (ed. Assemani, BibOr, vol. 1,
286–9, and Abbeloos , De vita et scriptis Jacobi...
[1867], 311–2); there are also two panegyric... ... Saroug (1988).
J. G. Blum, ‘Zum Bau von Abschnitten in Memre von Jakob von
Sarug’, in
...
179
Yawsep I of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
(d. 570) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yawsep-I-of-Seleucia-Ctesiphon
... person
Cath. (552-67), successor of Mar Aba I, in a period of
tension between the Church and the Persian authorities.
... ...
Cath. (552–67), successor of Mar
Aba I
, in a period of
tension between the Church and t... ...r and discipline in
the hierarchy of the church and warning against possible abuses by the
cath., the bishops, the priests, and the laypeople. Even though the ... ...
Bar ʿEbroyo
, who appears to be well-informed about
this episode, reports that ‘according to some’ Yawsep, upon his deposal,
... ... who, in the early 4th cent. had been deposed for reasons of
abuse of power. Yawsep would thus have retrojected his own experience into
that o...
180
Yawsep d-Beth Qelayta
(ca. 1870–1952) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
James F.
Coakley
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yawsep-d-Beth-Qelayta
...n press, he printed the ‘Paradise of Eden’ (1916) and the Nomocanon of
ʿAbdishoʿ
(1918).
2. In
Mosul
... ... enabled
him to go to India with his cousin Mar
Abimalek
Timotheus
and supervise the cutting of Syriac ...
181
II. Sigla and Abbreviations for Journals, Serial Publications, and Reference WorksURI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Journals-Serials-Ref-Works
II. Sigla and Abbreviations for Journals, Serial Publications, and Reference Works
... ...
AB
Analecta ... ...
ABD
Anchor Bi...
182
ʿAbdullāh I bar Sṭephanos
(d. 1557) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Abdullah-I-bar-Stephanos
ʿAbdullāh ... I bar Sṭephanos
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org Abdullah -I-bar-Stephanos
http://syriaca.org/bibl/16
7
... ... Syriac NT. He was born in Qalʿat Mara probably at the end of the 15th cent.
ʿAbdullāh moved the patriarchal see temporarily from
Dayr
... ... to
Amid
. Having heard
about the possibilities of printing books in Europe, ʿAbdullāh sent his
student
Mushe of
... the possibilities of printing books in Europe, ʿAbdullāh sent his
student
Mushe of
... the possibilities of printing books in Europe, ʿAbdullāh sent his
student
Mushe of
... ...e 1549, armed with two mss. of the
Peshitta
NT. ʿAbdullāh lived to see the first printed edition of
the Syriac NT, brought to light b...
183
ʿAbdulmasīḥ II
(1854–1915) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Abdulmasih-II
ʿAbdulmasīḥ ... II
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org Abdulmasih -II
http://syriaca.org/bibl/18
9
... ... patr.
of Antioch.
ʿAbdulmasīḥ returned to
Mardin
where he
...
184
...
in the
‘Catalogue’ of
ʿAbdishoʿ
. The Syriac translation has
been variously dated b...
185
...ekka and
Kousba, built on a high,
rocky cliff rising above the plains of olives and fruit orchards watered by
the Qadisha river.
... ..., on the road between Chekka and Kousba, built on a
high, rocky cliff rising above the plains of olives and fruit orchards
watered by the Qadisha river. This ... ...ble as he pulls Adam out of the grave. Behind Adam is
Eve, and behind her is Abel . On the other side are David and Solomon, and
the remains of a scroll once ... ...avid and Solomon, and
the remains of a scroll once held by John the Baptist. Above the head of
Christ is a little flying angel.
Below the ... ...avid and Solomon, and
the remains of a scroll once held by John the Baptist. Above the head of
Christ is a little flying angel.
Below the ... ...avid and Solomon, and
the remains of a scroll once held by John the Baptist. Above the head of
Christ is a little flying angel.
Below the ...
186
Asʿad, Gabriel
(1907–1997) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Asad-Gabriel
...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 575.
Macuch, Geschichte, 469.
Munūfar Barṣūm...
187
Assemani, Joseph Aloysius
(1710–1782) [Maron.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Assemani-Joseph-Aloysius
...e Latin translations of
Collection of Canons by
ʿAbdishoʿ
and of the
Nomocanon of
...
188
Assemani, Josephus Simonius
Giuseppe Simone Assemani (1687–1768) [Maron.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Assemani-Josephus-Simonius
... annotated edition of the verse catalogue of Syriac authors by
ʿAbdishoʿ
). The three-volume Catalogue of the Hebrew
and Syr...
189
Athanasios I Gamolo
(d. 631) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Jack B.
Tannous
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Athanasios-I-Gamolo
...
Sources
Abbeloos and Lamy, Gregorii Barhebraei
chronicon ecclesiasticum, vol. 1, col...
190
Ayyub, Barsoum
(1932–1998) Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Ayyub-Barsoum
...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 580–1.
Macuch, Geschichte, 464.
Munūfar Barṣ...
191
... person
Earliest known Syriac author who flourished at the court of King Abgar of
Edessa
.
... ...22)
Earliest known Syriac author. He was active at the court of Abgar VIII
(177–212) in
Edessa
... ...rse as well as in
prose, has to be reconstructed from later hostile sources above all,
Ephrem
);
it was ...
192
Barṣawma of Nisibis
(d. ca. 491–96) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Adam H.
Becker
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Barsawma-of-Nisibis
... ʿEdray (?) in 486. We have extant a letter from Barṣawma explaining his
absence from the Synod of Mar
Aqaq
, held in 486,
... ... which further addressed the issues of clerical marriage.
ʿAbdishoʿ ... bar
Brikha
is vague about his works, citing various genres, including
metrical homilies, liturgical w...
193
Barṣawmo Ṣafī, Grigorios
(d. 1307/8) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Hidemi
Takahashi
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Barsawmo-Safi-Grigorios
...//syriaca.org/person/245
person
Younger brother of Grigorios Abū al-Faraj bar ʿEbroyo and
his successor as Maphrian (1288-1307/8).
... ... (d. 1307/8) [Syr. Orth.]
Younger brother of Grigorios Abū al-Faraj
Bar ʿEbroyo
... ... and his successor as maphrian (1288–1307/8). Almost
all we know about Barṣawmo comes from his elder brother’s Ecclesiastical
History, or, rather,... ...inuations of his brother’s historical works,
Barsoum ascribes to Barṣawmo an abridgement of the Anaphora of St. John the
Evangelist.
See Fig. 20...
194
Barṣawmo
(d. ca. 458) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Barsawmo
... http://syriaca.org/person/370
person
Monk and abbot .
(d. ca. 458) [Syr. Orth.]
... ...
(d. ca. 458) [Syr. Orth.]
Monk and abbot . Barṣawmo was a supporter of Dioscorus of Alexandria. In 449,
invited by Em... ...btful. In his Chronicle,
Michael Rabo
, who was abbot in the monastery named
after Barṣawmo (see
Day...
195
Barsoum, Ignatius Afram
(1887–1957) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Barsoum-Ignatius-Afram
...
Patr. and scholar. He was born to Stephan Barsoum and Susan Abdulnur , who
both hailed from distinguished families of
... ...913, he embarked on a
scholarly trip in the
Ṭur ʿAbdin
region
studying local mss. He was consecrated bp. ... ...
pearls, 2004); Maktbonuto d-ʿal ʾatro d-Ṭur
ʿabdin , published posthumously with an Arabic translation by Boulos
Behnam (1963) ... ...Boulos
Behnam (1963) and with an English translation entitled History of Tur Abdin by M. Moosa (2009); Nuzhat
al-Adhhān fī taʾrīkh dayr al-zaʿfarān, a his... ... al-Zaʿfarān (Mardin, 1917; ET by M. Moosa, 2008); Taʾrīkh
al abrashiyyāt al-suryāniyya, a history of the Syriac Diocese
published partially in the P...
196
Barsoum, Murad Ṣaliba
(1912–1996) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Barsoum-Murad-Saliba
...84, he went on a
pilgrimage to his homeland
Ṭur ʿAbdin
with
Athanasios Y...
197
Beck, Edmund
(1902–1991) Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Beck-Edmund
...person/378
person
Syriac scholar and monk of the Benedictine Abbey of Metten
(Germany).
... ... (1902–1991)
Syriac scholar and monk of the Benedictine Abbey of Metten (Germany). At
Munich University he studied Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac... ... (listed below) and many articles on different aspects
of Ephrem’s writings; above all, however, he is primarily known for his
editions of Ephrem’s poetical w...
198
Behnam Ḥadloyo
(d. 1454) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Behnam-Hadloyo
... on June 1412.
After the death of the
Ṭur ʿAbdin
anti-patr. Baselius V, he managed to unite all the...
199
...n source
for the short commentary attributed to
Abraham Qaṭraya
bar Lipeh
. Another biblical interprete...
200
Beulay, Robert
(1927–2007) Contributor:
Mary T.
Hansbury
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Beulay-Robert
...ientale 53; 1992).
‘De l’émerveillement à l’extase: Jean de Dalyatha et Abou Saʿid
al-Kharraz’, in Youakim Moubarac. Dossier
...
201
Bidāry, Pawlos
(1887/1890–1974) [Chald.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Bidary-Pawlos
...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 511–2.
Macuch, Geschichte, 414–5.
...
202
...
Sources
A. Abel ,
‘Boṣrā
(Bostra)’, in EI
...
203
British Orthodox ChurchContributor:
James F.
Coakley
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/British-Orthodox-Church
... P. F. Anson, Bishops at large
(1964).
Abba Seraphim, Flesh of our
brethren (2006).
...
204
Cause of Causes
(10th–12th cent.?) Contributor:
Alessandro
Mengozzi
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Cause-of-Causes
...h as the Melk.
Theodoros
Abū Qurra
, 9th cent., and the Syr. Orth.
...
205
Cave of Treasures
Contributor:
Clemens
Leonhard
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Cave-of-Treasures
Mʿarrat Gazze
...résors (CSCO 581; 2000).
S. Ruzer, ‘The Cave of Treasures on Swearing by Abel’s Blood and
Expulsion from Paradise’,
...
206
Çiçek, Julius Yeshu
(1941–2005) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Cicek-Julius-Yeshu
...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 582.
S. P. Brock, ‘Mor Yulius Yeshu Çiçek (1942–2005): Syrian Ortho...
207
Dabbūs, Antoine
(1916–1983) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Dabbus-Antoine
...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 574.
Macuch, Geschichte, 456.
Munūfar Barṣūm...
208
Danhash, George
(1921–1969) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Danhash-George
... Isḥāq Armalah
and
ʿAbd
al-Masīḥ Qarabashī
. He taught in the Syr. Orth...
209
Daniel bar Maryam
(7th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Daniel-bar-Maryam
...Daniel’s Ecclesiastical History is
mentioned by
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
, along with a work dealing with chr...
210
Daniel bar Ṭubanitha
(7th cent.?) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Daniel-bar-Tubanitha
... Beth Garmai
).
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
attributes several works to him: a ... ...ered, but one
would have to go against the evidence provided by Ishoʿdad and ʿAbdishoʿ
who, as Degen pointed out, clearly saw two distinct Daniels.
...
211
De’ Rossi, Azariah (Buonaiuto)
ʿAzariah ben Moshe min Haʾadumim (ca. 1511 – ca. 1577) Contributor:
Emanuel A.
Fiano
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/De-Rossi-Azariah-Buonaiuto
...ewish Italian physician; biblical scholar and polymath;
author of a treatise about the usefulness of the Peshitta for the evaluation
of the Vulgate of the NT.... ...ewish Italian physician; biblical scholar and polymath; author of a treatise
about the usefulness of the Peshitta for the
evaluation of the Vulgate of the NT.... ...of the Peshitta for the
evaluation of the Vulgate of the NT. Little is known about his childhood and
early education. After leaving his birth town, Mantua, he... ...rrara between 1575 and 1577, must be read against the backdrop
of the debate about the trustworthiness of the Vulgate that had followed the
declaration of its...
212
Dolabani, Philoxenos Yuḥanon
Yūḥannā Dūlabānī (1885–1969) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Dolabani-Philoxenos-Yuhanon
... request of his parents, Patr.
ʿAbdullāh ... Ṣaṭṭūf
tried
to convince young Yuḥanon to forget about monastic life, but to no avail. In
1907, he joined Dayro d-Noṭpo, became a ... ... days at Dayr al-Zaʿfarān where he was buried.
He edited the following works: an abridged version of the Beth Gazo (Mardin, 1913); a prayer book for priests (Mardin,
...
213
... place
Town in the foothills of Mount Lebanon,
above the town of Batrun (Botrom); site of church of Mar Saba.
... ...
The town of Eddé lies in the foothills of Mount Lebanon, above the town of
Batrun (Botrom). The church of Mar Saba, which nowadays is Maro... ...els, and Dionysius the Areopagite
can still be distinguished. An inscription above the Dormition was read by
the Maron.
Patr.
... ... AD 1261/2).
There are also a fine Crucifixion on the northern wall of the nave, above the
arches; an imposing but very damaged painting of the Virgin in the posi...
214
Eli of Qarṭmin
(ca. 13th cent.) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Robert A.
Kitchen
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Eli-of-Qartmin
... dated 1144/5, when raiders attacked and pillaged
Ṭur ʿAbdin
,
emptying the bones and head of Philoxenos on the ... ...al characters; (vv. 505–550)
Invocation to Philoxenos for patronage over Ṭur ʿAbdin ; (vv. 551–4) Closing
doxology.
De Halleux concludes tha... ...there are numerous errors,
Eli’s focus on Philoxenos’s relationship with Ṭur ʿAbdin ... deserves
attention.
Philoxenos’s connection with Ṭur ʿAbdin is tied to three locations: 1. the
monastery at Qarṭmin at Dayr al-ʿUmr whe... ... Qarṭmin at Dayr al-ʿUmr where his body is interred; 2. the
monastery of Mar Abraham , near Midyat, where his head was reputedly
transferred in 1144/5; 3. Beth S... ... Qarṭmin at Dayr al-ʿUmr where his body is interred; 2. the
monastery of Mar Abraham , near Midyat, where his head was reputedly
transferred in 1144/5; 3. Beth S... ... Qarṭmin at Dayr al-ʿUmr where his body is interred; 2. the
monastery of Mar Abraham , near Midyat, where his head was reputedly
transferred in 1144/5; 3. Beth S... ...xenos that connect him to Qarṭmin: the miraculous encounter with the
stylite Abel
215
Elias, Ghaṭṭās (Danḥo) Maqdisī
(1911–2008) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Mor Polycarpus Augin
Aydin
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Elias-Ghattas-Danho-Maqdisi
...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 576.
Macuch, Geschichte, 465.
Munūfar Barṣūm...
216
Elishaʿ bar Quzbaye
(early 6th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Elisha-bar-Quzbaye
... he served as director
twenty years later, when
Abraham of
Beth Rabban
was temporarily removed from th...
217
Eliya I of Ṭirhan
(d. 1049) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Herman G. B.
Teule
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Eliya-I-of-Tirhan
... Syros (Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft.
Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 9.2; 1889), 137–57 and
194–200. (Tre...
218
Eliya of Nisibis
Eliya bar Shinaya (975–1046) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Herman G. B.
Teule
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Eliya-of-Nisibis
...ars according to different eastern calendars.
The report of his discussions with Abū al-Qāsim al-Maghribī, minister at the
court of the Marwānids in Diyarbakır ... ... in the 9th cent. and is no longer valid for his own period.
His remark about the absence of translations of Arabic among the Syrians is
contradicted by his chronicl... the absence of translations of Arabic among the Syrians is
contradicted by his chronicl... ...which
became partly inserted into later liturgical compilations such as the Abū
Ḥalīm’ or the book of
Gewargis
... ... Warda
. According to
ʿAbdishoʿ of Nisibis
,
Eliya is also the author of a no longe... ... . Other letters, in Syriac and Arabic, ascribed to him by
ʿAbdishoʿ of Nisibis, are lost.
Sources
...
219
Eliya of al-Anbār
(first half of the 10th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Andreas
Juckel
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Eliya-of-al-Anbar
... didactic poetry in the first half of the
10th cent. There are three sources about his life and writings: 1. The
‘Chronology’ of
... ...d. 1046) notes that Eliya was in (probably dogmatic)
conflict with the Cath. Abraham III al- Abrāzā (906–37) in the year 1233 of
the Greeks (= AD 921–22); 2. According to the ... III al- Abrāzā (906–37) in the year 1233 of
the Greeks (= AD 921–22); 2. According to the ... ... by Eliya
shortly before the inthronisation; 3.
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
(d. 1318) in his ‘Catalogue’ of Syr...
220
ʿEnanishoʿ
ʿAnanishoʿ (7th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Jeff W.
Childers
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Enanisho
...ʿEnanishoʿ settled in the
Monastery
of Beth ʿAbe
. During his travels he became enamored with Egyptian
... ...ored with Egyptian
monasticism and well acquainted with Greek texts. At Beth ʿAbe , he wrote a
book on philosophical ‘definitions and divisions’, a lexical to...
221
Epiphanius of Salamis
(d. 403) Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Epiphanius-of-Salamis
...
Secondary Sources
L. Abramowski , ‘Die Anakephalaiosis zum Panarion des Epiphanius
in der Hs. Brit. ...
222
Eusebius of Caesarea
(ca. 260 – ca. 340) Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Eusebius-of-Caesarea
...t the end of Book I it contains
the earliest reference to the letter of king Abgar of
Edessa
to Jesus and
... ... Latin and
Armenian translations. According to
ʿAbdishoʿ
this
was translated by Shemʿon of
... ...re 4.9 (1866),
117–36; 4.10 (1867), 150–64.
According to ʿAbdishoʿ there was also a Syriac translation of Eusebius’s
‘Life of Constantine’, bu...
223
Eutyches
(ca. 378 – ca. 454) Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Eutyches
...gsberichte der bayerischen Akademie der
Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Kl., Abt . 5; 1929).
A. Van Roey, ‘Eutyches’, in
DH...
224
Evagrius
(345–399) Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Evagrius-of-Pontus
...959).
W. Frankenberg, Evagrius Ponticus
Abhandlungen , Göttinger Akademie der Wissenschaften, N.F. XIII,2;
1912).
...
225
Fāʾiq, Naʿʿūm
Naoum Elias Palak
(
(
ca. 1868–1930) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Faiq-Naum
...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 546–9.
Barsoum, Scattered pearls, 523.
M. F....
226
Gabriel, Fawlos
(1912–1971) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Mor Polycarpus Augin
Aydin
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Gabriel-Fawlos
...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 573.
Macuch, Geschichte, 455.
Munūfar Barṣūm...
227
Gabriel Qaṭraya
(6th/7th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Gabriel-Qatraya
...r only the commentary on the Eucharist has been
published and translated. An abbreviated form of at least much of the work
is attributed to
... ...m of at least much of the work
is attributed to
Abraham bar
Lipeh
(ed. R. H. Connolly, in CSCO 71, 76... ... Connolly, in CSCO 71, 76; 1911, 1915). The
relationship between Gabriel and Abraham is not clear.
...
228
Gabriel bar Bokhtishoʿ
Jibrāʾīl, Jibrīl (d. 827/8) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Aaron M.
Butts
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Gabriel-bar-Bokhtisho
...i). He
is also mentioned in the ‘Catalogue’ of
ʿAbdishoʿ
(Assemani, BibOr, vol. 3, 257–8) where he is group...
229
Gannat Bussāme
...
) Urmi
180, the other to a lost ms. from the monastery of Abraham (the Upper
Monastery in
Mosul
... ... Firstly, the exegetical prose homilies written by
Aba II of
Kashkar
(7th–8th cent.), of which many f...
230
Gewargis I
(d. 680/1) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Gewargis-I
... and
was a monk in
Beth ʿAbe
. He came into contact with
the future
... ... (nos. 10–11), monks (no. 12), liturgy (no. 15), and funerals (no. 18);
abuses and lax behavior with regard to marriage (nos. 13, 14, and 16; with
warning... ...Enanishoʿ
, a
fellow monk from the Monastery of Beth ʿAbe , to compile the ‘Paradise of the
Fathers’, which became an authoritative co...
231
Giwargis II, Ignatius
(1648–1708) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Giwargis-II-Ignatius
...ng various parts of his life. Born in
Mosul
to ʿAbd
al-Karīm, his family produced three patr. (him, his nephew
... ... and consecrated bp. for
Jazīrat Qardu in 1677. When Maph. Yaldo voluntarily abdicated the
maphrianate to serve in Malankara, Giwargis was installed maph. in his ... ...ix
patriarchs (Giwargis in Mardin, Ḥabib in
Ṭur ʿAbdin
,
Peṭros who later converted to Catholicism, Denḥa,... ...oʿozor, Isḥoq b. Gbir who later
converted to Catholicism, and Loʿozor of Ṭur ʿAbdin ).
Sources
...
232
Gregory Thaumaturgus
the ‘Wonderworker’ (3rd cent.) Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Gregory-Thaumaturgus
...
Secondary Sources
L. Abramowski , ‘Die Schrift Gregors des Lehrers “ad Theopompum”
und Philoxenus vo...
233
Grigorios Yawseph
Gregory Joseph IV the Iberian (d. 1537) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Grigorios-Yawseph
...d-ʿAzrael, then moved
between Ḥesno d-Kifo,
Ṭur ʿAbdin
, and
Amid
... ...oy). He also visited Ṣadad in 1527, Amid in 1529–30, Aleppo in 1534, and
Ṭur ʿAbdin in 1535. Earlier, a matrimonial case in Ṣadad caused a friction
between him...
234
Habbi, Yusuf
(1938–2000) [Chald.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Habbi-Yusuf
... published a new
edition of the ‘Catalogue’ of
ʿAbdishoʿ
(1986), and
Arabic translations of various chronic...
235
Ḥanno, Sulayman
(1918–200?) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Hanno-Sulayman
... al-Bīḍ.
He wrote a book on the massacres of
Ṭur ʿAbdin
titled
Gunḥe (Glane, 1987), and composed poems...
236
Ḥazqiel I
(d. 580/1) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Hazqiel-I
...sep
. ʿAmr lists Ḥazqiel among the disciples of
Aba I
(Labourt 169, note 3). An important synod was
h...
237
Ḥenanishoʿ II
(d. 779/80) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Henanisho-II
...nly after Isḥaq’s death, shortly after,
that reconciliation could be brought about between the opposing parties and
that Ḥenanishoʿ’s situation could be regul... ...ming the traditional rights of the see of
Kashkar. Henceforth Ḥenanishoʿ was able to serve as
Cath.
cath.
... ...ming the traditional rights of the see of
Kashkar. Henceforth Ḥenanishoʿ was able to serve as
Cath.
cath.
... ... are known, nor have any of his writings, among which
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
mentions letters and memre, been
...
238
Ḥenanishoʿ bar Seroshway
(probably 2nd half of 9th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Henanisho-bar-Seroshway
...or source for Bar Bahlul).
ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha
, in his Catalogue, attributes to Ḥenanishoʿ
...
239
... Antioch
in 519. A noteworthy Syr. Orth. scholar from Ḥimṣ is ʿAbd
al-Masīḥ b. Nāʿima al-Ḥimṣī (fl.
ca. 830), who tra... ... Syr. Orth.
Patr. Ignatius
ʿAbdullāh
Saṭṭūf
(1906–15); and Qaryatayn (75 km. southe...
240
...f al-Kūfa was founded near ʿĀqolā a few
kilometers north of Ḥirta by Saʿd b. Abī Waqqāṣ in 638, to become the
administrative center of al-ʿIrāq under Arab o... ...ive center of al-ʿIrāq under Arab occupation and, for a time
under the first Abbasids (750–63), the seat of the caliphate.
The first known bp. of Ḥirta is Hoshaʿ, wh... ...ive center of al-ʿIrāq under Arab occupation and, for a time
under the first Abbasids (750–63), the seat of the caliphate.
The first known bp. of Ḥirta is Hoshaʿ, wh... ...
[421–56], Babowai [457–84],
Aba I
[540–52], Ḥazqiel
[567–81], and
... ... Aqaq
[485–95/6] and,
later, Abraham II [837–50]). There was a school at Ḥirta founded by
Qiyore of Edessa
... ...rta founded by
Qiyore of Edessa
, a disciple of Aba I, and housed in a monastery
later called Dayr al-Askūl. Among the later bi... ...er purportedly sent by
Philoxenos of Mabbug
to Abū Yaʿfur (503–5) and through emissaries
sent by
... ... Beth Arsham
was active in the area and reported from here about
the events in
Nagran
...
241
...
Sources
Sh. AbouZayd , Ihidayutha: A study of the
life of singleness in the Syrian Orient...
242
Ishoʿ of Merv
Ishoʿ Maruzaya, ʿĪsā al-Marwazī (9th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Aaron M.
Butts
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Isho-of-Merv
.... From his nisba it is known
that he was from Merv, an important city in the Abbasid period located on
the lower course of the Murghab river in the northeast fr... ... (second half of the 9th
cent.). According to Bar ʿAli’s patron, Abraham , the Lexicon of Ishoʿ of
Merv was ‘composed irregularly and without order’ ... ... A lexicographer from Merv is also mentioned in the ‘Catalogue’ of
ʿAbdishoʿ
(Assemani, BibOr,
vol. 3, 257–58), but it is uncle...
243
Ishoʿdad of Merv
(fl.
ca. 850) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Ishodad-of-Merv
... Narsai
, Cath. Mar
Aba
,
and
Ḥenana
...
244
Isḥoq Ṣaliba
(d. 1730) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Ishoq-Saliba
...http://syriaca.org/person/558
person
Last bp. of Dayro d-Mor Abay .
(d. 1730) [Syr. Orth.]
... ...
(d. 1730) [Syr. Orth.]
Last bp. of Dayro d-Mor Abay . Little is known about his early life. He may
have been from Qilleth and may have joined
... . Little is known about his early life. He may
have been from Qilleth and may have joined
... . Little is known about his early life. He may
have been from Qilleth and may have joined
... ...or
Matay
. He was consecrated bp. of Dayro d-Mor Abay with the unusual
Syriac, rather than Greek, honorific title Isḥoq. He may h... ...arch Shemʿun of Maʿdan ca. 1699. After
his death in 1730, the diocese of Mor Abay , which then included Ṣawro,
Qilleth, and its villages, Bafawah, ʿWein, Khar...
245
Ishoʿyahb IV
(d. 1025) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Ishoyahb-IV
... i.e.,
III). Neither
ʿAbdishoʿ
in his
‘Catalogue’, nor any other ancient source, ...
246
Iwannis Yuḥanon
(d. 1755) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Iwannis-Yuhanon
... maker of ʿarraqiyya
(a small cap worn under a turban to absorb sweat)’.
(d. 1755) [Syr. Orth.]
... ... also nicknamed b. al-ʿAraqjanji ‘son of the maker of ʿarraqiyya (a small cap worn under a turban to absorb sweat)’. His
brother, ʿAbd al-Karīm, and he became monks at
Dayr
al-Z... sweat)’. His
brother, ʿAbd al-Karīm, and he became monks at
Dayr
al-Z... sweat)’. His
brother, ʿAbd al-Karīm, and he became monks at
Dayr
al-Z...
247
Jacob, Cyril
Qurilos Yaʿqub (1912–199?) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Jacob-Cyril
...h.]
He was born in ʿAynward in
Ṭur ʿAbdin
, and
joined
Dayr
... ...was tonsured monk by Yūḥannā Kandūr, and then ordained a
priest by Dionysios ʿAbdulnūr of
Amid
. He then served
... ...
Ivanios Afram in
managing the diocese of Ṭur ʿAbdin . He emigrated to Europe and lived in
Sweden for
...
248
Jerusalem
Syr. Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Jerusalem
Oreshlem,
Urishlem
...of
the Dead Sea Scrolls (1968).
M. Tamcke, Abraham of Kashkar’s pilgrimage’, ARAM 18–19 (2006–7), 477–82.
H. G. B. Teule, ‘Th...
249
John Chrysostom
(ca. 347–407) Contributor:
Jeff W.
Childers
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/John-Chrysostom
...r. tradition is obvious from the
references in
ʿAbdishoʿ
’s ‘Catalogue’ (16; Assemani,
BibOr, 3.1.24–7) ...
250
...
http://syriaca.org/person/574
person
Abbot of the monastery of Sinai around the year
600.
... ... 600.
Abbot of the Monastery of Sinai around the year 600. Climacus (klimakos) means ‘of the Ladder’, after the...
251
John Philoponos
(ca. 490 – ca. 575) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/John-Philoponos
... of Cosmas Indicopleustes, the friend of Patr.
Aba I
. His later
theological works are known only in e... ... application of logic led him to speak of the oneness of the Trinity as an
abstraction . This position, held by a number of theologians, was condemned
as tritheism...
252
...ted into Iosipos; hence the ‘Catalogue’ of
ʿAbdishoʿ
attributes ‘Fables’ to Josephus.
...
253
Khamis bar Qardaḥe
[Ch. of E.] (13th cent.?) Contributor:
Alessandro
Mengozzi
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Khamis-bar-Qardahe
...y, Khamis is not
included in the ‘Catalogue’ of
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
. Only a few specimens of the vast p... ...ed couplets of twelve-syllable lines) are
transmitted together with works by ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha belonging to the
same genre, which has a liturgical function com...
254
Konat, Matta
(1860–1927) [Syr. Orth. (Malankara)] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Konat-Matta
...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 542–3.
Barsoum, Scattered pearls, 522–3.
Mac...
255
Leroy, Jules
(1903–1979) Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Leroy-Jules
...includes the study of several mss. from
Ṭur
ʿAbdin
, Iraq, and Syria. In the same period he also wrote his
... ...ribution to the first Symposium Syriacum (1972) was on
the famous 10th-cent. abbot of Dayr al-Suryān,
Mushe of
Nisibis
...
256
Manna, Yaʿqob Awgen
Jacques Eugène (1867–1928) [Chald.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Manna-Yaqob-Awgen
...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 558–60.
Macuch, Geschichte, 407–8.
...
257
... in Egypt, where they were brought from Mesopotamia by
the abbot
Mushe of
Nisibis
... ... Esṭrangela writing on parchment that was centered in
Ṭur ʿAbdin
in the
12th–13th cent.
Ms...
258
...d. A remarkable episode in the ‘Life of Mar
Aba
’
(ed. Bedjan) suggests that in mid-6th cent. Mesop...
259
Melkite literature in SyriacContributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Melkite-literature-in-Syriac
...t (ms. Brit.
Libr. Or. 8606, of 723).
Theodoros Abū
Qurra
(early 9th cent.), who normally wrote in... ...ic, states that
he also composed a work in Syriac (J. C. Lamoreaux, Theodore Abu Qurrah [2005], 119).
2. Translations of theological literature, including a let... ... Damascus
, Cosmas of Jerusalem, and others. From about the 13th
cent. onwards many of the Syriac liturgical mss. also contain a go...
260
Mingana, Alphonse
(1878–1937) [Chald.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Mingana-Alphonse
...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 505–7.
J. F. Coakley, ‘A Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the...
261
...ic still apparent in the monasteries of
Ṭur
ʿAbdin
in eastern Turkey, or the Monastery of Mor Ephrem in
...
262
Murad, Michael
(1878–1952) [Syr. Cath.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Murad-Michael
...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 551–2.
Macuch, Geschichte, 437.
...
263
Mushe of Aggel
Inghilene (6th cent.) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Mushe-of-Aggel
... Sources
I. Guidi, ‘Mose di Aghel e Simeone Abbate ’, Rendiconti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei IV.2 (1886),
397–416.
...
264
Mushe of Nisibis
(first half of 10th cent.) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Mushe-of-Nisibis
... http://syriaca.org/person/647
person
Scribe, abbot of Dayr al-Suryān, collector of mss. who was instrumental in establishing the monastery’s library.
... ... (first half of 10th cent.) [Syr. Orth.]
Scribe, abbot of
Dayr
al-Suryān
... .... Libr. Add. 12,142) by a Tagriti family (906/7).
A few years later, he was abbot (riš dayro) and was
in charge of a major renovation project in the main chu... ...es pi-hikoymenos ‘Papa Moses the
hegoumenos’. The latest mention of Mushe as abbot is found in a note dated
943/4 (ms. London, Brit. Libr. Add. 14,525, f. 1v)... ... in the monastery today. As the most well-known
representative of the Syrian abbots and of the Syrian and Coptic monks who
collected, produced, and preserved S...
265
Niʿmatullāh, Ignatius
(ca. 1515? – ca. 1587?) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Nimatullah-Ignatius
... in 1562 and united the patriarchate of
Ṭur
ʿAbdin
with his own in 1572, a union that lasted until 1584. He
... ... with his own in 1572, a union that lasted until 1584. He
abdicated , or was forced to abdicate , in March 1576 under peculiar
circumstances.
D... , or was forced to abdicate , in March 1576 under peculiar
circumstances.
D... , or was forced to abdicate , in March 1576 under peculiar
circumstances.
D... ...h had adopted Islam. Niʿmatullāh gave no denial
fearing execution and had to abdicate . Shortly after his abdication , he
escaped in disguise and fled to the west. He arrived in Rome, coming fr... . Shortly after his abdication , he
escaped in disguise and fled to the west. He arrived in Rome, coming fr...
266
...of
Nisibis
, and of
Abraham of
Beth Rabban
, its head for several decades i... ... aetiological discussion of E.-Syr. festival days.
We know little about the actual physical space of the School, for example,
where it lay in moder...
267
Nonos of Nisibis
Nonnus (d. after 861) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Michael Philip
Penn
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Nonos-of-Nisibis
...ur incidents. The most celebrated is Nonos’s disputation with
Theodoros Abū Qurra
. Ca. 815 Nonos’s relative Abū Rāʾiṭa, the
Miaphysite Bp. of
Tagrit
... ... the court of the Armenian prince Ashot Msaker to debate against the
Melkite Abū Qurra. Later chronicles often attribute Armenia’s continuing
support of the... ... Dionysios
of Tel Maḥre
simply refers to abominations .’ From both external
sources and from Nonos’s own writings we learn that, u... ...both external
sources and from Nonos’s own writings we learn that, under the Abbasid
Caliph al-Mutawakkil, Nonos was imprisoned from ca. 856 until 861. Also wit... ...both external
sources and from Nonos’s own writings we learn that, under the Abbasid
Caliph al-Mutawakkil, Nonos was imprisoned from ca. 856 until 861. Also wit... ...both external
sources and from Nonos’s own writings we learn that, under the Abbasid
Caliph al-Mutawakkil, Nonos was imprisoned from ca. 856 until 861. Also wit...
268
Paradise of the Fathers, Book ofContributor:
Herman G. B.
Teule
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Paradise-of-the-Fathers-Book-of
...the Syriac tradition, to a
compilation consisting of a collection of stories about monks and solitaries
(including Palladius’s ‘Historia Lausiaca’, but also m... ...the Syriac tradition, to a compilation consisting
of a collection of stories about monks and solitaries (including
Palladius
’s ‘...
269
Proba
Probus (probably 6th cent.) Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Proba
... and Komi in the
‘Catalogue’ of
ʿAbdishoʿ
has led to the view that he
was associated with th...
270
... Town in the Qalamun mountains, Syria, ca. 95 km. northeast of Damascus
and about 20 km. north of Nabk, often
mentioned as a caravan station between Ḥimṣ and... ...ed or killed the Christians of Qara, which then became a
Muslim town. It was able to regain some of its Christian population in the
following decades and to ...
271
Qiyore of Edessa
Cyrus of Edessa (6th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Qiyore-of-Edessa
... Nisibis
(ca. 533–8) he was a disciple of Mar
Aba
; he subsequently
taught at the School of
... ... Seleucia-Ctesiphon
, and became its Director. After Mar Aba’s
death (552) he founded a monastery at
Ḥirta
...
272
Qoro, Elias Malke
(1881–1962) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Qoro-Elias-Malke
... appointed secretary to Patr.
ʿAbdullāh Ṣaṭṭūf
in 1906
and was ordained priest in 1908. He... ...11. In London, he met King Edward VI twice and dined at his table. He
became abbot of Dayr al-Zaʿfarān in 1911 and was appointed director of its
printing ...
273
Raḥmani, Ignatius Ephrem II
(1848–1929) [Syr. Cath.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Rahmani-Ignatius-Ephrem-II
...
Sources
Abuna , Adab, 603–7.
Macuch, Geschichte, 429–32.
D. Aphra...
274
Renaissance, SyriacContributor:
Herman G. B.
Teule
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Renaissance-Syriac
... and rhythmic prose (sajʿ, for instance, by
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
) as well as Arabic verse meters (ra... ...dy of authors like
Ibn Sinā, Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, and Abū Ḥāmid
al-Ghazālī contributed to new developments, e.g., in the works of
...
275
Reshʿayna
Theodosiopolis Contributor:
Hidemi
Takahashi
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Reshayna
... .
Among the E.-Syr. authors mentioned by
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
are Daniel of Reshʿayna (ca. 550) (... ... Bar ʿEbroyo
, ‘Chron.
Eccl.’, ed. Abbeloos and Lamy, I.281: Dayro da-Pgimto
ʾawkit d-SPWLWS, which is mentioned he... ...arly-8th
-cent. Sobho of the ‘Watchtower’,
mentioned above , remains an open question (Loopstra argues for their
identity).
...
276
Sahdona (Martyrius)
(early 7th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Sahdona-Martyrius
...He lived as a monk of the
Monastery
of Beth ʿAbe
until some time between 635 and 640, when he was made
...
277
Saka, Yaʿqub
(1864–1931) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Saka-Yaqub
...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 609–10.
Barsoum, Scattered pearls, 523–4.
Ma...
278
Salmān, Ḥanna
(1914–1981) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Salman-Hanna
...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 573–74.
Munūfar Barṣūm, Aḍwāʾ, 79–81.
...
279
Schulthess, Friedrich
(1868–1922) Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Schulthess-Friedrich
... bis Chalcedon nebst einigen zugehörigen Dokumenten
Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu
Göttingen. Philo...
280
Sergios of Reshʿayna
(d. 536) [Syr. Orth.?] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Sergios-of-Reshayna
...ayn ibn Isḥaq über die
syrischen und arabischen Galen-Übersetzungen Abhandlungen
für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 19:2; 1925).
R. ...
281
Shalliṭa of Reshʿayna
(8th cent.?) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Shallita-of-Reshayna
... life, and his dates are uncertain. The ‘Catalogue’ of
ʿAbdishoʿ
(ch. 109) attributes to him various liturgical
com... ... in a learned style
incorporated into the liturgical collection known as the Abū Ḥalīm (after
its compiler, Patr. Eliya III [1176–90]). A considerable numbe...
282
Shamsi Clan
[Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Shamsi-Clan
... testimony that survives is given by Patr.
Abrohom II
Gharīb
dated 25 July 1436, from which many ...
283
Shemʿon Shanqlawi
Shemʿon of Shanqlabad (late 12th – early 13th cent.) [Ch. of
E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Shemon-Shanqlawi
...e aus syrischen Akten persischer
Märtyrer [1880], 231–3). No information about Shemʿon’s life is
available, but some of his works are preserved. The first... .... Vat. Syr. 187, along with a commentary by
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
(see S. E. and J. S. Assemani, Bibl...
284
Shemʿon d-Ṭaybutheh
(late 7th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Grigory
Kessel
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Shemon-d-Taybutheh
...y of Rabban Shabur (modern southwest Iran).
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
attributes to him three books: on t... ...Lexicon of
Bar
Bahlul
. ʿAbdishoʿ’s list is to be supplemented by a group of short
fragments of unidentified pr...
285
Shemʿun of Edessa
(6th cent.?) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Shemun-of-Edessa
...tographic 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)...
286
Shlemon of Baṣra
Solomon of Baṣra (fl. 1222) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Jonathan A.
Loopstra
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Shlemon-of-Basra
... town of Akhlat, located on the northwest coast of Lake Van. Little is
known about his life except that he was in attendance at the consecration of
the Ch. of... ... Cath. Sabrishoʿ in 1222 (Assemani, BibOr, 3.1.453).
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
lists a number of Shlemon’s literar...
287
...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 491–6.
Fiey, Pour un Oriens christianus novus,
...
288
Sobo, Malki al-Qas Afram
(1895–1979) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Sobo-Malki-al-Qas-Afram
...r. Orth.]
He was born in Arbo,
Ṭur ʿAbdin
. He
was ordained a priest for
...
289
Tell ʿAda, Monastery of
[Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Jonathan A.
Loopstra
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Tell-Ada-Monastery-of
... to patr.
Yoḥannan V bar
Abgare
.
...
290
Thābit b. Qurra
(826?–901) Contributor:
Hidemi
Takahashi
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Thabit-b-Qurra
...aca.org/person/777
person
A famous ‘Ṣābian’ scholar from the Abbasid period, one of
the few non-Christian authors known by name who composed wor... ...
(826?–901)
Abū al-Ḥasan Thābit b. Qurra b. Marwān al-Ṣābī al-Ḥarrānī, the most famous of
t... ...Marwān al-Ṣābī al-Ḥarrānī, the most famous of
the ‘Ṣābian’ scholars from the Abbasid period, is one of the few
non-Christian authors known by name who composed ...
291
... Texts of the Hellenistic Period (Acta Academiae
Aboensis , Heft 30,1; 1968), 195–200. A. Städele, Die Briefe des Pythagoras und der
...
292
Yawsep Huzaya
(ca. 500) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yawsep-Huzaya
...nslation to Yawsep and are supported in
this by
ʿAbdishoʿ bar
Brikha
, the work is anonymous in the W.-Sy...
293
Yeshuʿ bar Khayrun
(1275–1335) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Hubert
Kaufhold
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yeshu-bar-Khayrun
...
Author. He was born in 1275 in Ḥaḥ (
Ṭur ʿAbdin
) as
the son of the teacher and priest Ṣlibo, son o...
294
Yoḥannan Sullaqa
(ca. 1510–1555) [Ch. of E. and then Chald.] Contributor:
Herman G. B.
Teule
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yohannan-Sullaqa
... Born in
Mosul
, he became monk and abbot of the
Monastery of Rabban Hormizd
near
... ... on Yoḥannan Sullaqa, composed by his
successor
ʿAbdishoʿ of
Gazarta
.
Yoḥannan Sulla... ...
Masius
; the third is found in the panegyric of ʿAbdishoʿ and
clearly belongs to the Ch. of E.
...
295
Yoḥannan bar Penkaye
(late 7th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yohannan-bar-Penkaye
...itled ‘The (spiritual)
Merchant’, mentioned by
ʿAbdishoʿ
in his ‘Catalogue’
(he also lists some other works...
296
Yoḥannan of Beth Rabban
(6th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yohannan-of-Beth-Rabban
...hool of
Nisibis. Yoḥannan was a relative of
Abraham ... of
Beth Rabban
and both he and Abraham were probably related to
Narsai
,
... ...eir names. Yoḥannan may have served as an assistant or a co-administrator
to Abraham during the latter’s tenure as head of the School. It is
noteworthy, however... ... Barḥadbshabba
the
historian, our main source on Abraham , does not mention Yoḥannan’s name at
all, while the other Barḥadbshabba, th... ..., emphasizes
Yoḥannan’s significance in the School.
Like Abraham , Yoḥannan is credited with biblical commentaries, none of which
have surviv... ... left with a chronological problem here, reminding us of how
little is known about this intriguing figure.
...
297
Yoḥannan of Dailam
(d. 738) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yohannan-of-Dailam
...ary. He was a monk of the
Monastery
of Beth ʿAbe
, but was taken prisoner to Dailam; there, once he had
... ... Damascus
, he is
said to have healed a child of ʿAbd al-Malik. He finally settled in
Fars
, near
...
298
Yoḥannan of Mosul
(d. 1270?) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yohannan-of-Mosul
...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 441–3.
Baumstark,
...
299
Yuḥanon Qashisho
(1918–2001) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yuhanon-Qashisho
...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 577.
Munūfar Barṣūm, Aḍwāʾ, 142–4.
...
300
al-Rāhib, Elias
(1860–1949) [Chald.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/al-Rahib-Elias
...
Sources
Abūna , Adab, 508–9.
Macuch, Geschichte, 413–4.
...
301
...turn of the 20th cent.
Patr. Peṭros III/IV and
ʿAbdullāh II
brought two printing presses in 1881 and 1889 from
...
302
Abrohom II Gharīb
(d. 1412) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Abrohom-II-Gharib
Abrohom ... II Gharīb
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org Abrohom -II-Gharib
http://syriaca.org/bibl/26
17
...
303
Abrohom Naḥshirtono
(d. 686) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Abrohom-Nahshirtono
Abrohom ... Naḥshirtono
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org Abrohom -Nahshirtono
http://syriaca.org/bibl/27
18
...
304
Albonesi, Teseo Ambrogio degli
Theseus Ambrosius (1469 – ca. 1540) Contributor:
Emanuel A.
Fiano
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Albonesi-Teseo-Ambrogio-degli
... priest
Joseph Kūri (Acurius), the deacon Moses, and the subdeacon Elias bar Abraham
(from whose hand came the first Syriac mss. to enter the Vatican Library).
... ...ed Hebrew in Rome with
some Jewish scholars, among whom were Joseph Zarfati, Abraham of Balmes, and
a certain ʿAbdias (perhaps ʿObadiah Sforno, Reuchlin’s teacher). Zarfati,
who, like the Leban... of Balmes, and
a certain ʿAbdias (perhaps ʿObadiah Sforno, Reuchlin’s teacher). Zarfati,
who, like the Leban... ..., presented for the first time in Europe a substantial amount of
information about the Syriac language, as well as Syriac texts of some
length. Albonesi was a...
305
...was the bp. there when
the city fell to the Mongols in 1260. Little is known about the Syr. Orth.
community in the subsequent period until the beginning of th... ... of Aleppo (Michael Ḍāhir, Peter Jarweh,
George Chelhot, Antony Ḥayek, Peter ʿAbd al-Aḥad), while two others were
Metr. of Aleppo before ascending to the pat... ...reported to be
approximately 35,000–40,000 Christians in the city, making up about one
third of the total population and including: 3,500 Syr. Catholics (4,00... ... significantly by those fleeing insecurity in Iraq since 2003.
Little is known about the sites of the medieval Syriac churches in Aleppo.
The churches dating fr...
306
...s a
visit by Alexander to China, which is an episode
absent from all other texts. There is also a Modern Syriac version.
2. A narrative poe...
307
...
Baghdad
, etc.) or abroad , especially to the USA and UK. The
town’s economy is based on agriculture (...
308
...f Maronites in Antioch, who
together with the Latin rite Christians numbered about fifty, alongside
larger communities of Melkites numbering some 4,500 and Ar... ...rotto,
the cave believed to be the site of the first church in Antioch, lies about
2 km. to the northeast of the town center.
...
309
...hority on the diocese. Eventually Syria Secunda was
instrumental in bringing about the restoration of Chalcedonian Orthodoxy in
the Eastern Empire under the e... ... Gospels, with their extraordinary illuminations.
Apamea was abandoned in the early Islamic period and later fell into ruins.
In 1930, a team of B...
310
...
,
very probably dates from 691/2, the time of ʿAbd al-Malik’s
tax reforms and the building of the Dome of the Rock (ed. with G... ... Sargis Bḥira
)
probably dates from about the mid-9th cent. in its present form, but its
roots may go back to the end...
311
Aqaq
Acacius (late 5th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Aqaq
...hristians? Apart from the information in the
Synodicon, very little is known about Aqaq. The Chronicle of
Siirt
...
312
...nslations made in
the course of the ‘translation movement’ patronised by the Abbasid caliphs;
the new translations also included many other works, beyond the ‘O...
313
Athanasios Aṣlan
(d. 1741) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Athanasios-Aslan
...author, and translator. He was born in
Amid
to ʿAbd al-Nūr
and Narzkhan. Two of his brothers, Thoma and Yawseph, became priests...
314
Athanasius of Alexandria
(ca. 296–373) Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Athanasius-of-Alexandria
... Athanasiana Syriaca, vol. 4 (CSCO 386–7;
1977). There is both a full and an abbreviated form.
4. ‘On Virginity’ (
CPG
...
315
...m. from
Beirut
,
550 m. above sea level. The small church of Mar Tadros, which is nowadays
Maronite, is b...
316
Bar ʿAli, Ishoʿ
ʿĪsā b. ʿAlī, Yashūʿ b. ʿAlī (second half of the 9th cent.) [Ch.
of E.] Contributor:
Aaron M.
Butts
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Bar-Ali-Isho
... ʿAli states that he undertook its writing
at the behest of a certain deacon Abraham . During his readings, Abraham had
been employing the Lexicon of Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq as well as a Lexicon comp... . During his readings, Abraham had
been employing the Lexicon of Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq as well as a Lexicon comp... ...iled
by
Ishoʿ of Merv
. Abraham seems to have been happy with the former,
but less so with the latter. In a... ...appy with the former,
but less so with the latter. In addition, according to Abraham , the lexicon
of Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq and that of Ishoʿ of Merv differed at times... ...appy with the former,
but less so with the latter. In addition, according to Abraham , the lexicon
of Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq and that of Ishoʿ of Merv differed at times... ...ript found in some mss., and it is none other than the
aforementioned deacon Abraham .
The Lexicon of Bar ʿAli is an important source for Syriac lexicography.
...
317
Barṣawmo, Dayro d-Mor
[Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Hidemi
Takahashi
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Barsawmo-Dayro-d-Mor
...ocated around a peak 1600 m high at the south-western end of the Kaplı
Dağı, above the village of Peraş (1300 m) in the upper valley of the Kâhta
Çayı and ap... ...ded as having died in Dayro d-Mor Barṣawmo,
and was succeeded by Yuḥanon bar ʿAbdun (1004–31), a monk of that monastery.
Patr. Dionysios IV (1032–42) was force... ...
Michael I Rabo
(1166–99), who had been its abbot before his
election as patr. The monastery, which became the regular venue ... ... serious damage by fire in 1183. Michael I was
succeeded as patr. by another abbot of Dayro d-Mor Barṣawmo, Rabban Ṣaliba,
who as patr. took the name Athanasi... ...) had
to engage in a long dispute over the control of the monastery with its abbot
Yaʿqub and his influential brother Shemʿun of Qalʿa Rumoyto. His successor
... ..., centred around the town of Gargar (modern
Gerger) and the Monastery of Mor Abḥai . Dayro d-Mor Barṣawmo, too, was
reoccupied at that time, as is indicated by...
318
Baselios Gewargis
(d. 1748) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Baselios-Gewargis
...n
Aleppo
to Ibrāhīm b.
ʿAbd al-Nūr and Naslikhan. He became a monk in 1701, and was later ordained
prie... ... bp.
Bp.
ʿAbd al-Aḥad of
Jerusalem
, and
...
319
Behnam, Dayro d-Mor
Monastery of St. Behnam [formerly Syr. Orth., now Syr.
Cath.] Contributor:
Bas
Snelders
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Behnam-Dayro-d-Mor
... monastery was looted in 1295 by the invading Mongol
army of Khan Baidu. The abbot of the monastery was subsequently able to
persuade Baidu not only to return all the stolen objects, but even to ma... of the monastery was subsequently able to
persuade Baidu not only to return all the stolen objects, but even to ma... ...urch in 1839, but continued to lead a poor existence
until 1936, when Ephrem Abdal established a new community of monks there. In
addition to revitalizing Day... ...ks there. In
addition to revitalizing Dayro d-Mor Behnam’s library, superior Abdal
(1936–66) initiated the first of a series of large-scale restorations, whic... ...ks there. In
addition to revitalizing Dayro d-Mor Behnam’s library, superior Abdal
(1936–66) initiated the first of a series of large-scale restorations, whic...
320
... al-Anbār
. The
‘Arab’ dioceses emerged under Abbasid rule. They include: 1. al-Qaṣr,
between Baghdad and al-Kūfa; 2. Niffar (an... ... between Baghdad and al-Kūfa; 2. Niffar (ancient Nippur) and al-Nīl; 3.
ʿAbdāsi and Nahrgūr, both in the southeast of Iraq; 4. al-Rādhān,
al-Baradān, and B... ... between Baghdad and al-Kūfa; 2. Niffar (ancient Nippur) and al-Nīl; 3.
ʿAbdāsi and Nahrgūr, both in the southeast of Iraq; 4. al-Rādhān,
al-Baradān, and B... ...an’ Aramaic (quoted in Fiey 1990, 86), but it is not clear
whether he speaks about the situation of his own day or rather reflects
notions of a much earlier p...
321
...n though the E. Syr. adopted Theodore of Mopsuestia, who was rather
negative about the authority of the Peshitta, as their exegete par excellence, and even though the W.-Syr. traditi... ... apart from 2 Peter, 2–3 John, and Jude; it also omitted Revelation.
As stated above , for theological reasons Philoxenos of Mabbug preferred a
more precise rend... ...ing the first centuries, ‘the
Gospel’ referred to the Diatessaron. As stated above , Ephrem already knew
the four separate Gospels in the Old Syriac Version; h...
322
Bible, New Testament manuscriptsContributor:
Andreas
Juckel
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Bible-New-Testament-manuscripts
... Patr. Libr. 12/1 (7th/8th?), and ms. Mingana Syr. 103
( about AD 790’, according to Mingana, but rather 8th/9th cent.).
The oldest dated Gosp...
323
Bible, Old Testament manuscriptsContributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Bible-Old-Testament-manuscripts
...text, but more frequently lections were added in the margins by later hands.
About the 9th/10th cent. the first lectionary mss. appear, with the
readings in ...
324
Bnay Qyāmā,
Bnāt Qyāmā
bar qyāmā,
ba(r)t qyāmā
... Rule’ (Dem. 6.8).
Celibacy is no longer a requirement for inclusion, nor is absolute poverty
required as almsgiving is encouraged. Fervent faith, evidenced in z...
325
Book of Steps
Contributor:
Robert A.
Kitchen
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Book-of-Steps
Liber Graduum, Ktābā d-massqātā
...e are: Preface by the editor of
the collection; 1. Author’s introduction; 2. About those who want to become
Perfect; 3. The physical and spiritual ministry; 4... ...and of Satan; 26. On the second law which the Lord
established for Adam; 27. About the history of the thief who is saved; 28.
On the fact that the human soul ... ...and of Satan; 26. On the second law which the Lord
established for Adam; 27. About the history of the thief who is saved; 28.
On the fact that the human soul ...
326
Braun, Oskar
(1862–1931) Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Braun-Oskar
...2). Chabot primarily based his work on the same Roman mss. as Braun, but
was able to obtain a second late 19th-cent. copy of the Alqosh ms. Even in
the light... ... volume
(39 letters) appeared; the second volume, which would have contained about
20 additional letters, remained unpublished, although some of these letters...
327
Brockelmann, Carl
(1868–1956) Contributor:
Hubert
Kaufhold
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Brockelmann-Carl
... excellent memory, a distinct sense of order, a quick
understanding, and the ability to correctly assess the scope of a project,
along with an unbending will an...
328
Chaldean Catholic ChurchContributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
James F.
Coakley
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Chaldean-Catholic-Church
...g either as refugees in Syria and
Lebanon, or as immigrants in the diaspora above all
in North America), than remain in Iraq.
...
329
Christian Palestinian AramaicContributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Christian-Palestinian-Aramaic
...the narratives of Alexis the
Man of God
and of Abraham of Qidun (both of which reached
Christian Palestinian Aramaic by way of Gre...
330
Chronicle of Edessa
(mid-6th cent.) Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Chronicle-of-Edessa
... from the pre-Christian period (when Edessa was a kingdom
under the Abgarids ) well into the time that most of
Edessa was Christian. The work opens with ... ...d 84). The author’s language, however,
becomes more personal when he reports about the religious policy of Emperors
Justin I (518–527) and Justinian (527–565)... ... It was only
in the 4th cent., in his view, that ‘orthodox’ Christianity was able to
assert itself and to oppress ‘non-orthodox’ groups, whose literary histo... ...to oblivion or was deliberately erased. In addition,
scholars have noted the absence ... in the Chronicle of any reference to the
conversion of the Abgarids ... in the Chronicle of any reference to the
conversion of the absence ... in the Chronicle of any reference to the
conversion of the Abgarids or to the mission of Addai. This has contributed
to the view that the legen...
331
...ssentially local, concentrating on the economy of the Jazīra under the
early Abbasids . Several universal chronicles are known only by the names of
their authors,... ...s
Edessa
under the
Abgarids of
Edessa and presumably elsewhere. Reference to the royal archives
...
332
...t took him 340 hours, starting on 5 Jan. and finishing on 4 Feb.
Information about the place of writing, if not a monastery, may include the
church, as well a...
333
... Brockelmann’s Lexicon Syriacum on a mainframe, but
nothing more is known about it. In the 1970s, the Göttingen-based Göttinger
Syrische Konkordanz project...
334
Cyril of Jerusalem
(ca. 315–387) Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Cyril-of-Jerusalem
...on of the
Cross, ed. with ET, J. F. Coakley, in
AB
102 (1984),
71–84; and 2. on the attempted rebuild...
335
Dadishoʿ I
(d. 456) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Dadisho-I
...Arabs’.
Dadishoʿ is quoted at length in the account of the Synod: he reports about
his painful experience and is reluctant to resume leadership. The gathered
... ... A remarkable moment in the Synod is the participating bishops’ decision to
abolish what they see as the right of Eastern Christians to lodge complaints
agains... ...Roman Empire). Although no such right is recorded in any
preserved text, its abolition is presented as a step toward Dadishoʿ’s full
rehabilitation. In recent sch... ...as a step toward Dadishoʿ’s full
rehabilitation. In recent scholarship, this abolition has sometimes been
interpreted as a declaration of independence of the Ch. ... ...as a step toward Dadishoʿ’s full
rehabilitation. In recent scholarship, this abolition has sometimes been
interpreted as a declaration of independence of the Ch. ...
336
Daniel of Mardin
(1327 – after 1382) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Daniel-of-Mardin
...y dated 1172/3, published by J. Jarry (‘Un écrivain syriaque inconnu
du Tur Abdin ’, Syria 52 [1975] 131–7; on which see
A. N. Palmer, in
...
337
Diamper, Synod of
(20–27 June 1599) Contributor:
Hidemi
Takahashi
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Diamper-Synod-of
... trade, with the result, for example, that the Chald.
bp. Mar Abraham , who
had arrived in India in 1568, was summoned in 1585 to attend the Third... ...in practices in the liturgy of the Thomas Christians.
Following the death of Mar Abraham in 1597, Archbishop Aleixo (Alexis) de
Menezes of Goa (1559–1617, Archbisho...
338
...nce, to Russia] in
the case of the Chaldeans and Assyrians) and to the West, above all at this
stage to the Americas, both North and South. The flight of Assy... ...f states, in some of which churches have been
built.
The above locations only cover countries where church communities have been
establish... ...Suroyo TV, Assyrian TV); it has also made it possible to publish
information about
the
...
339
Dionysios bar Ṣalibi
(d. 1171) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Dionysios-bar-Salibi
...old, and perhaps
considerably more. He was succeeded as bp. by his synkellos Abraham who,
however, died shortly afterwards (Michael, Chronicle, III, 354).
... ...That on the Pauline Epistles remains unpublished (for mss.,
see A. Vööbus in Abr Nahrain 9 [1969/70], 39–42). The
commentary on the Apocalypse preserves som... ...d become bp.
of Marʿash. Dionysios states that his purpose was to provide an abbreviation ...
of previous commentators. At the end of the work he complains about the
barbarity and ignorance shown by the Syriac translator of Analytics II... ...
of previous commentators. At the end of the work he complains about the
barbarity and ignorance shown by the Syriac translator of Analytics II...
340
Draguet, René
(1896–1980) Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Draguet-Rene
... Scetis
(CSCO 289–90, 293–4; 1968), the Commentary on Abba Isaiah’s
Asceticon by
Dadishoʿ
...
341
...nians took hold of the city. Following its destruction, in 256,
the city was abandoned and fell into oblivion. Rediscovered in 1920, Dura
was excavated mainly by ...
342
Ecumenical dialogueContributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Ecumenical-dialogue
...giving
rise to two different conceptions of how salvation for humanity comes about .
For the Antiochenes, a concern for the transcendence of the divinity meant... ...not ‘mother of God’.
By contrast, for the Alexandrians, salvation is brought about by the divine
Word ‘becoming’, but without change, fully human at the incar... ...not ‘mother of God’.
By contrast, for the Alexandrians, salvation is brought about by the divine
Word ‘becoming’, but without change, fully human at the incar... ... this three technical terms became prominent
in formulations of christology, above all at the Council of Chalcedon:
person (parṣopā; Greek prosopon), nature (... ... Definition, was acceptable to the Syr. Orth.), but attempts at bringing
about agreement by Justinian and others failed, though this was very nearly
achie... ...ch of the East and the Chaldean Catholic Church to inaugurate
moves to bring about the full ecclesial union of the two Churches; an
important step towards thi...
343
...d Islamic traditions
conveniently turned the city into the dwelling place of Abraham . In 304 BC,
Seleucus I Nicator rebuilt the ancient settlement into a Hellen... ... enjoyed independence, being ruled by local kings (most of whom were named
Abgar ... or Maʿnu) until AD 213 when it turned into a Roman colony (see Abgarids ). Christianity spread out in Mesopotamia
probably through Edessa, and in an... ... Yeshuʿ the
Stylite
. In about 542 the city had a bishop named
Yaʿqub
Bur...
344
Eliya (mid-6th cent.)
[Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Eliya-mid-6th-cent
... Yuḥanon of
Tella
. No information about Eliya is available outside the Life
itself. Eliya claims to have lived with...
345
...ues. The accounts they produced preserve
practically no reliable information about Ephrem; rather, they are
constructed from a stereotypical repertoire of ane... ...ial inferior and an unlettered
country-bumpkin whose fondest desire is to be able to speak Greek. It is
during Ephrem’s fictitious visit to Basil that his pu...
346
Gabriel Qamṣa
(d. ca. 1300) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Gabriel-Qamsa
...), the founder of this
monastery, as its main subject, but the author speaks about him only after
having given a long overview of salvation history. This begi... ... partly in
eight-syllable rhymed verses, the poem has a convoluted style and abounds in
Greek words. While it has failed to charm modern scholars (Baumstark: ‘e... ... partly in
eight-syllable rhymed verses, the poem has a convoluted style and abounds in
Greek words. While it has failed to charm modern scholars (Baumstark: ‘e... ...
Yahbalaha III
in 1281. No further details about his life (nor
about his name, which means ‘locust’) are known. Gabriel’s work has remained
unpu... his life (nor
about his name, which means ‘locust’) are known. Gabriel’s work has remained
unpu...
347
Georgian Christianity, Syriac contacts withContributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
Jeff W.
Childers
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Georgian-Christianity-Syriac-contacts-with
...a’. None of them can be identified with otherwise known
figures, though one Abibos ) does have a Syriac name, but with a Greek
ending; it seems likely that the... ...lation from the Greek (Childers). In the case of others, such as
the Life of Abraham and his niece Mary, the precise source, Greek, Syriac,
or Arabic, remains t...
348
Graffin, François
(1905–2002) Contributor:
Françoise
Briquel-Chatonnet
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Graffin-Francois
... was the professor of a whole generation of Syriac scholars, from
France and abroad . In 1941, at the death of his uncle, he became director of
the Patrologia O... ... Institute in Rome, was entrusted with the directorship. Graffin himself was
able to complete two major multi-volume editions initiated by M. Brière:
...
349
Gospel of the Twelve Apostles
[Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Gospel-of-the-Twelve-Apostles
...own only in Syriac, probably dates from the
early 8th cent. (probably before ʿAbd al-Malik’s death in 705), and is not
preserved quite complete. It misleadin...
350
Gregory of Nyssa
(ca. 330 – ca. 395) Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Gregory-of-Nyssa
...y’
(
CPG
3137), ‘to Ablabius ’ (
CPG
3139), ‘to Theophilus’ (
... ...is attributed to Gregory, but this has been shown
(Parmentier 1993) to be an abbreviation of
Philoxenos
, Discourse 9.
...
351
Grigor I
(d. ca. 610) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Grigor-I
... Babai
the Great
and Aba , Archdeacon of Seleucia, were in charge of the
administration of the Ch. of...
352
Guillaumont, Antoine
(1915–2000) Contributor:
Françoise
Briquel-Chatonnet
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Guillaumont-Antoine
...cularly to the Sahidic fragments of the Coptic version of the
‘Asceticon’ of Abba Isaiah (
Isaiah of
Scetis
... ...e ascetics lived. Using the texts and gleaning information
from them, he was able to identify the site of Kellia, a center of eremitic
life situated between ...
353
...otifs, and themes that identified its men or
women with biblical models, and above all with gospel models of Christ. The
saint was always presented as one who... ...ling, teaching, or ministry in life, or by a holy death. It could be
written about historical persons or legendary figures, but always it
presented and confor... ... familiar models
that emerged over the late antique period: the holy bishop, abbot historical persons or legendary figures, but always it
presented and confor... ... familiar models
that emerged over the late antique period: the holy bishop, about historical persons or legendary figures, but always it
presented and confor... ... familiar models
that emerged over the late antique period: the holy bishop, abbot , or monk;
the holy nun, widow, or penitent harlot; the holy layman or laywo... ...atives and deeply influenced by Greek
biographical traditions, such as those about
Rabbula of
Edessa
... ...ary forms that mutually interacted
across languages. Hagiographical writings about Syr. saints were written in
Greek (e.g., by
Th...
354
...rn critic, but he was aware of the non-uniformity of the Greek
text. He knew about different textual traditions and that translating a
single Greek ms. (like ...
355
Harris, James Rendel
(1852–1941) Contributor:
Naomi
Koltun-Fromm
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Harris-James-Rendel
...erved as director of the Woodbrooke Institute, Birmingham (UK), where he
was able to combine his love for ancient textual studies and Quaker
spirituality.
... ...social history behind the variant textual traditions he studied.
Rendel Harris’s abiding interest in collecting, editing and decoding ancient
Christian manuscripts,...
356
Hatch, William Henry Paine
(1875–1972) Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Hatch-William-Henry-Paine
... the Egyptian Wadi al-Natrun in search of Syriac and Coptic mss., but he was
able to obtain only a few Coptic folios from St. Macarius Monastery. After
his r...
357
...ous letter to a certain Mari, ‘the Persian’, in which he bitterly
complained about Rabbula’s actions against the writings of Theodore, who
increasingly was se... ...lcedon (451), and Hiba was
rehabilitated as bp. of Edessa, a position he was able to hold until his
death.
Nearly a century after his dea...
358
Hormizd, Monastery of Rabban
[Chald.] Contributor:
Heleen L.
Murre-van den Berg
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Hormizd-Monastery-of-Rabban
...lies from
nearby Alqosh took the lead in ms. production. Among these was the Abuna
family, who also provided the patriarchs for one of the patriarchal lines o... ... also
the first schism with the Chaldean church originated, when in 1552 its abbot
Yoḥannan Sullaqa
... ... the Ch. of E. disagreed with the choice of a new potential successor (naṭar kursi) from the Abuna family. Despite Sullaqa’s
relative success in acquiring papal consecration ...
359
Ḥubeika, Joseph
(1878–1944) [Maron.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Hubeika-Joseph
...f poems under the title Recueil de poèmes syriaques (n. d., but according to
Abūna published by his brother Peter Ḥubeika in 1952). He also wrote a
pocket Syr...
360
Isḥaq of Nineveh
(late 7th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Ishaq-of-Nineveh
...ee short works by
Yoḥannan of Dalyatha
, and an abbreviated form of
Philoxenos
’s ‘Letter to Patricius’. T...
361
Isḥaq
(ca.
fl.
399/400–410/11) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Ishaq
...ved at the end of the
4th cent. In this new political environment, Isḥaq was able to lay the
foundation for the organization of the Christian communities, wi... ...rbela
, and Karka.
Other canons contain instructions about liturgy (canon 9) and about the
celebration of Christian feasts (canon 13). Some canons specifically ai... liturgy (canon 9) and about the
celebration of Christian feasts (canon 13). Some canons specifically ai...
362
Ishoʿdnaḥ
(9th cent.) [Ch. of E] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Ishodnah
... Sasanian and early Arab periods. The work consists of 140 short notices
about monastic figures, mostly founders of monasteries, beginning with
Mar
...
363
Isḥoq ʿAzar
(1647–1724) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Ishoq-Azar
...named Giwargis. Isḥoq was consecrated bp. for the monastery in 1684 by
Patr. ʿAbdulmasīḥ I. Later, he was installed as maph. in 1687 by his uncle
Patr.
... ... on 8 Feb. Due to
deteriorating health, he voluntarily abdicated in 1723 and left for Mosul
where he died in 1724. He was buried in the Chur...
364
Ishoʿyahb II of Gdala
(d. ca. 646) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Ishoyahb-II-of-Gdala
... . His only surviving writings are: a long letter to Rabban
Abraham of Beth Madaye on christology (ed. Sako, with FT), a profession of
faith (p...
365
... Antioch
by Peter
the Fuller about 475. During the confusion that followed upon Emperor Zeno’s
expulsion of Pe... ...nably the ‘Life of Peter the Iberian’,
to which we owe much of our knowledge about the first generation of
opposition to Chalcedon. The text has been anonymou... ... (512–18) and consists of a collection of eighty-nine
anecdotes about prophesies, visions, and other signs received by holy men
against the counc...
366
John bar Aphtonia
(d. 537) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Jeff W.
Childers
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/John-bar-Aphtonia
... non-Chalcedonian monasteries (ca. 530). The group chose John to be their
Abbot and founded the
Monastery
of Qenneshre
...
367
...ption near a now vanished
saint (Domatius?), and St. Lawrence with an angel. Above this zone,
fragments indicate that the walls were originally considerably h... ...on in his writing from 1283/84
(A.G. 1595), which also furnishes the name of Aba Simaʿan b. Jaqir (bp.
Simeon son of Jaqir), ‘the first superior of this hol...
368
Kalila and DimnaContributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Kalila-and-Dimna
... an account of his journey to India, sent by
Khusrau I. The autobiography is absent from the 6th-cent. Syriac
translation, but is to be found at the end of the...
369
... from
Batrun. Ruins near the present agglomeration mark the site of an abandoned
village with a small church known as the Chapel of Saydat Kharāʾib (Our Lad...
370
Khouri-Sarkis, Gabriel
(1898–1968) [Syr. Cath.] Contributor:
Joseph P.
Amar
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Khouri-Sarkis-Gabriel
...rs in Europe, he founded L’Orient Syrien, a scholarly journal of information
about Syriac Christianity geared to the interested non-specialist. The
fledgling ...
371
Leloir, Louis
(1911–1992) Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Leloir-Louis
...niversity of Louvain. For extended periods he served as Novice Master in
the Abbey of St. Maurice in Clairvaux (Luxembourg), and then at the Abbey of
St. Paul de Wisques (France). In 1953–54 Leloir re-edited the Armenian
... of St. Maurice in Clairvaux (Luxembourg), and then at the Abbey of
St. Paul de Wisques (France). In 1953–54 Leloir re-edited the Armenian
... ... published in 1963; just over 20 years later, the Chester Beatty
Library was able to purchase some further folios of the same ms., and these
too were edited ... ...ctionnaire de
Spiritualité. Given his expertise in Armenian, he was also able to
write authoritatively on the relationship between Syriac and Armenian
...
372
...rgical rites can be grouped into families, the eastern ones
being associated above all with Constantinople,
Antioch
,
... .... for the W.-Syr.
tradition, whereas E.-Syr. ones only rarely survive before about
the
12th
... ... 12th
cent.
It must have been from about the 7th cent. that the Maron. and Syr. Orth.
liturgical traditions began to... ... III, and/or with the usage of ‘the Upper
Monastery’ (of Mar Gabriel and Mar Abraham ,
Mosul
). Many new
tex... ...arly centuries of the 2nd millennium, in
particular prose texts by Eliya III Abū Ḥalīm (d. 1190), verse texts by
Gewargis Warda
... ... from Greek, while others were composed in Syriac, the latest belonging to
about the middle of the 2nd millennium. Both mss. and printed editions vary
great... ...he prose Sedre (which are usually transmitted separately in
mss., and so are absent from the Pampakuda edition). An abbreviated and
adapted English version of the Mosul edition was made by Fr. Francis Ac...
373
Loʿozar bar Sobtho
Lazarus (early 9th cent.) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Loozar-bar-Sobtho
..., in which Loʿozar apparently
tried to find a compromise between attributing absolute power to providence
on the one hand or freewill on the other hand. Elsewher... ...ar’s letters, while in his ‘Ethicon’ the
Maphryono states that Loʿozar wrote about ... the origins of Syriac liturgical
chant and about ... the origins of Syriac liturgical
chant and about ... the origins of Syriac liturgical
chant and about the introduction in the Syriac churches of the ‘qonune’ of
John of
...
374
Loʿozar of Beth Qandasa
(8th cent.?) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Loozar-of-Beth-Qandasa
...tten by one of Loʿozar’s
disciples, Giwargis of Beth Naqe, gives information about his teacher, who
is said to have been a scholar in the investigation of dog... ... f. 149v; see
also Barsoum, 366).
Additional information about Loʿozar’s disciples or his school may be
gathered from ms. Damascus, Syr. O...
375
...m. from
Beirut
,
525 m. above sea level. The Church of Mar Charbel is built on the remains of
a 1st-cent....
376
Malabar Catholic Church
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Malabar-Catholic-Church
...nted, thus marking the beginnings of an indigenous
hierarchy, which was only able to develop again in the 20th cent.
In 1923 Ernakulam was m... ...Syriac literature has ever been produced in S. India,
numerous literary and, above all, liturgical mss. were copied there, and in
the 19th and earlier part of...
377
Malabar Independent Syrian Church
The Thozhiyur Church Contributor:
John R. K.
Fenwick
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Malabar-Independent-Syrian-Church
...inister under
the jurisdiction of the Mafryono and his companions. Squabbles about money
and jurisdiction prevented this intended outcome, and Mar Thoma V die... ... and jurisdiction prevented this intended outcome, and Mar Thoma V died in
about 1765, without having been re-consecrated, but having himself
consecrated hi... ... and jurisdiction prevented this intended outcome, and Mar Thoma V died in
about 1765, without having been re-consecrated, but having himself
consecrated hi... ...r Thoma Syrian Church).
The community has always been Syr. Orth. in rite. It has about 15 churches
and priests, and several schools. The Church is active in ecume...
378
Malankara Catholic Church
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Malankara-Catholic-Church
...Daughters of Mary. An important liturgical contribution was made by the late
abbot of the Kurisumala Ashram, Fr. Francis Acharya (Mahieu; 1912–2002) in
the fo...
379
Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church
Jacobite Syrian Christian Church Contributor:
Thomas
Joseph
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Malankara-Syriac-Orthodox-Church
...ntly consecrated canonically by the first Syr. Orth. delegate, Mor
Gregorios ʿAbdel al-Jaleel, who arrived in 1665. He was succeeded by eight
indigenous metrop... ...alankara from the
17th cent. onwards. Prominent among them are Mor Gregorios ʿAbd al-Jaleel,
bp. of Jerusalem (arrived 1665, died 1671, interred at North Par... ...hengannur), Mor Dioscoros Yuḥanon (arr. 1806, departed
1809), Mor Athanasios ʿAbd al-Masīḥ (arr. 1825, dep. 1827), Mor Kurillos
Yuyakim (arr. 1846, d. 1874, ... ... (arr. 1909/1927, d. 1962, int. Manjinikkara), Rabban
ʿAbd al-Aḥad (later Patr. Yaʿqub III) (arr. 1933, dep. 1946), Rabban Mushe
Salam... ...959), Rabban Aphrem Paulose (arr. 1960, dep. 1964),
and Mor Timotheos Aphrem Aboodi (arr. 1965, dep. 1973). Patr. Petros III/IV
was the first patriarch to visi... ...es and
Institutions with four bishops including the Patriarchal delegate and about
30 churches. The major monasteries of the Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church
... ...esides over the
autonomous Honovar St. Antony’s Mission; the Association has about 45
churches, 10 educational institutions, and other charitable organization... ...esides over the
autonomous Honovar St. Antony’s Mission; the Association has about 45
churches, 10 educational institutions, and other charitable organization...
380
Man of God of Edessa
Alexius Contributor:
Robert
Doran
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Man-of-God-of-Edessa
...r strangers. The
custodian had to leave the city for a while and, during his absence , the Man
of God died and was buried with the poor. Distraught at the news, ...
381
Mar Thoma Syrian Church (Malankara)Contributor:
John R. K.
Fenwick
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Mar-Thoma-Syrian-Church-Malankara
...h Missionary Society who arrived in 1816.
Under their influence Palakunnathu Abraham , a Malpan
from Maramon, agitated for the removal of some liturgical and cul... ...Maramon, agitated for the removal of some liturgical and cultural
practices. Abraham was simultaneously genuinely committed to W.-Syr.
identity, including the u... ... al-Zaʿfarān
, who, in 1842, consecrated a nephew of Abraham Malpan
as Mathews Mar Athanasios. His pursuit of reform was inconsistent. H... ...s travelled to
Kottayam in the face of many threats and consecrated a son of Abraham Malpan
with the title Titus Mar Thoma. Since then, Thozhiyur bishops have a... ...f North India, though the Mar Thoma Church has said that it does not wish
to abandon its eastern heritage by uniting with the two western-derived
Churches. The ... ...orm. Whereas the Malabar
Catholic Church has engaged in an active debate about freeing
itself from colonially-imposed theological method and rediscovering...
382
Mark, Monastery of St.Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Mark-Monastery-of-St
... Shimʿun of Ṣalaḥ, followed by another renovation
by his successor Gregorios ʿAbd al-Aḥad b. Fanna of
Mardin
. Other
... ... ,
during 1780–92 by Gregorios Bshara, and during 1833–40 by Gregorios ʿAbd
al-Aḥad Dajjala. The last two renovations from the 19th cent. were done by
... ...ajjala. The last two renovations from the 19th cent. were done by
Ostethewos ʿAbd al-Nūr of
Edessa
during
...
383
...lcedonians eventually
adopted Byzantine liturgical usage. As a result of the absence of a
Chalcedonian
...
384
...ie two different
conceptualizations of how salvation for humanity is brought about by Christ.
For the W.-Syr. tradition the Word of God descends and underpins...
385
...ze of the materials may differ.
a. The first and largest section (for title, see above ) consists of extracts
taken from all books of the OT and NT
... ... The differences of the sections in arrangement and size (and the total
absence of several items from some mss.) suggest a textual development and
history ... ...e ‘Masoretic’ mss. seem to be of no great
critical value on account of their abridged and selective way of quotation.
Nevertheless, ‘Masoretic’ mss. have been ex...
386
Matay, Dayro d-MorContributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Matay-Dayro-d-Mor
...t. Monasticism took various forms in the
monastery, including monks who were ʾabile
‘anchorites’, ḥbiše ‘recluses’, and ʾiḥidoye ‘hermits’, but others preferre... ... cent., the Kurds raided the monastery many times, and as a result it was
abandoned for 12 years. Later that century, Oswald Parry, a delegate of the
Archbisho...
387
...s that there was a long interruption after
Domitian, no doubt reflecting the absence of Syr. Orth. Christians in the
area. The list resumes with names of four b... ...e wealth created through this resettlement became a major factor in
bringing about the revival of cultural activities among Syr. Christians
which has come to ... ... bar Ṣalibi
. Of the Patriarchs from the period, Yuḥanon bar ʿAbdun
(1004–31),
Yuḥanon X bar Shushan
... ...ke of Melitene as the large city
under the jurisdiction of Patr. Yuḥanon bar ʿAbdun , with 56 churches and
60,000 arms-bearing Christians in the city and its su... ...elitene,
namely Laqabin, ʿArqo, Qlisuro, Gubos, Ṣemḥo, Qlawdiya, and Gargar Abbeloos
and Lamy, Gregorii Barhebraei chronicon
ecclesi... ...n population of the city consisted
almost entirely of Armenians, who made up about one tenth of the total
population of 30,000 (V. Cuinet, La Turquie d’Asie,...
388
Meliton the Philosopher
(2nd or 3rd cent.) Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Meliton-the-Philosopher
... originating from Syria or Mesopotamia, perhaps from the city of Mabbug,
about whose early pagan cults the author seems to have been well
informed.
...
389
Methodius, Apocalypse of Pseudo-Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Methodius-Apocalypse-of-Pseudo-
.... Formerly dated to earlier in the 7th cent.,
it is now thought to date from about 692, during the reign of ʿAbd al-Malik
(685–705). The first 7 chapters cover the period up to the rebuild... 692, during the reign of ʿAbd al-Malik
(685–705). The first 7 chapters cover the period up to the rebuild...
390
... patr.
in 649. During the Umayyad and Abbasid periods, Mosul was of
prime importance, being a trade, commercial, and agri...
391
Mūsā al-Ḥabashī, Dayr Mār
[formerly Syr. Orth., now Syr. Catholic] Contributor:
Erica Cruikshank
Dodd
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Musa-al-Habashi-Dayr-Mar
...rton and Moritz late in the 19th cent., but some time thereafter was
totally abandoned and fell into ruin. The fortress-like building was
approached through a sma... ...his saint became
associated with the monastery on the arrival of a number of Abyssinian monks
in the 15th cent. (Cruikshank Dodd). These monks from Mar Girgios al-... ... (of the Ethiopians), to Mār Mūsā al-Ḥabashi (the
Ethiopian) might have come about naturally in the process of time. A hand
encased in a silver casket purport... ...rist on the triumphal arch with what appear to be archangels at
either side. Above these figures there may have been painted the Forty
Martyrs of Sebaste (Imm... ...isle. In the southern aisle,
an image of Samson and the Lion is painted high above the western arch. At
the east end, there may have been an early Baptism in ... ...isle. In the southern aisle,
an image of Samson and the Lion is painted high above the western arch. At
the east end, there may have been an early Baptism in ... ...ing horsemen,
George and Theodore, Bacchos and Sergios charge down the nave, above the
arches, towards the apse. The remains of two other riding saints are vi... ...eir gospels
fill the spandrels. On the western wall is a great Last Judgment above which
is the Traditio clavium and the Traditio Legis, of which only the low...
392
Mushe bar Kipho
(d. 903) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
James F.
Coakley
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Mushe-bar-Kipho
... on the
Tigris), and writer. Almost all that is known about him comes from a short
anonymous biography (in two recensions, BHO 779–80) ...
393
...atr.
Timotheos
was able to integrate the descendants
of the exiles into the Ch. of E. In one of his...
394
Nestorios of Beth Nuhadra
(d. ca. 800) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Nestorios-of-Beth-Nuhadra
... he had to be
cleared from any mistrust concerning his orthodoxy. His formal abjuration of
messalianism and other heterodox teachings (preserved among Patr.
... ...stilled in us
(weakened by sin but reinvigorated by Christ’s coming), we are able ... to
receive God’s fire. He also maintains that man indeed is able to see God in
a spiritual vision, a hotly debated question in Nestorios’s d... ... to
receive God’s fire. He also maintains that man indeed is able to see God in
a spiritual vision, a hotly debated question in Nestorios’s d...
395
Nilus the Solitary
(4th/5th cent.) Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Nilus-the-Solitary
...ek monastic author. A number of writings in Greek are associated with
Nilus, abbot of a monastery near Ankyra (Ankara); among these are several
which are in f...
396
Nöldeke, Theodor
(1836–1930) Contributor:
Hubert
Kaufhold
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Noldeke-Theodor
... Near Eastern studies of
his day even though due to poor health he never was able to visit the Middle
East. Through him, Strasbourg became a center of Near E... ...ter of Near Eastern studies in
Germany. He had many students, including from abroad ; he maintained contacts
with many scholars and enjoyed international esteem... ...ter of Near Eastern studies in
Germany. He had many students, including from abroad ; he maintained contacts
with many scholars and enjoyed international esteem...
397
Old Syriac documentsContributor:
Aaron M.
Butts
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Old-Syriac-documents
... the main text is presented on the lower portion of the parchment and an
abbreviated summary occurs on the top. This top section would have
originally been roll... ...he chronology of the last kings of
Edessa
(see Abgarids ). P. Dura 28 shows that the Abgarid dynasty
must have come to an end in 212/213 when the city became a Roman co... ...is of P. Euphrates 19, which
states that 28 Dec. 240 is the 2nd year of king Abgar , it can be established
that the dynasty was restored in 239 (or late 238) u... ... can be established
that the dynasty was restored in 239 (or late 238) under Abgar X, son of
Maʿnu. Finally, it seems that Edessa must have reverted to a colo... ... can be established
that the dynasty was restored in 239 (or late 238) under Abgar X, son of
Maʿnu. Finally, it seems that Edessa must have reverted to a colo...
398
... , 2nd half of the 13th cent.) and Brikhishoʿ bar Eshkafe
abbot of Beth Qoqa, 14th cent.?). The
ʿonit...
399
Papa bar ʿAggai
(d. between 327 and 335) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Papa-bar-Aggai
... opponents was
Miles, bp. of Susa (martyred in 345). The Acts of Miles speak about the
incident in terms very unfavorable to Papa; the report by
... ... Dadishoʿ
(424), takes Papa’s side and is negative about ... Miles;
Bar ʿEbroyo’s summary report is neutral and dispassionate. Upset about the
accusations that Miles brought forth against him at the synod, Papa is ... ...tempt and defiance. As a result his hand was paralyzed. The sources
disagree about whether Papa subsequently was deposed and about the
accusations that Miles brought forth against him at the synod, Papa is ... whether Papa subsequently was deposed and about the
accusations that Miles brought forth against him at the synod, Papa is ... ...tempt and defiance. As a result his hand was paralyzed. The sources
disagree about whether Papa subsequently was deposed and about how long he
lived after the incident. Agapetos used the incident around Pap...
400
Pawla of Edessa
(early 7th cent.) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Pawla-of-Edessa
... (ed. E. W. Brooks, in PO 6.1, 7.5; 1910–11). He
is probably also the Abbas ... Pawla’ who translated the pericope John
7:50–8:12, absent from the Peshitta and Ḥarqlean. He is commemorated in one liturgical
calend... ... Pawla’ who translated the pericope John
7:50–8:12, absent from the Peshitta and Ḥarqlean. He is commemorated in one liturgical
calend...
401
Pawlos the Philosopher
Pawlos the Persian (mid-6th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Pawlos-the-Philosopher
...nt.) [Ch. of E.]
Author of philosophical works. Little is known about Pawlos’s life. Two
works, explicitly attributed to him are preserved in Syr... ...ourt, thus preparing the ground for the ambitious translation
project of the Abbasid rulers in the Islamic period.
See also
Pawlos the
...
402
PeshittaContributor:
Bas
ter Haar Romeny
Craig E.
Morrison
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Peshitta
...f the participle, ‘simple’, could be interpreted as ‘single’ rather than as
abstaining from eloquent language’. This also assumes that the name was
intended to co... ...2 Kings 17:27–8), by the Apostles, by
Mark the Evangelist, or in the time of Abgar .
Modern scholars would agree with Theodore of Mopsuestia that the name of the
... ...50. Chronicles, and perhaps also Ezra and Nehemiah, may have
been translated about fifty years later.
Origin and Dating of the NT Peshitta
The... ... Syriac Version and the Diatessaron.
The Peshitta did not abruptly replace the Old Syriac. M. Black (1953) argued
for the existence of an earl... ...avid
, Syr. Cath. Archbishop of Damascus, and
George ʿAbdishoʿ Khayyāṭ, Chaldean Archbishop of Diyarbakır; it was
published by the
...
403
Peter of Kallinikos
(2nd half of 6th cent.) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Lionel R.
Wickham
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Peter-of-Kallinikos
...e Damian and the
‘Damianites’) and who therefore spread the libellous report about us of
holding the heathen dogmas of the Tritheists; b. a treatise originall...
404
Porphyry
(ca. 232 – ca. 305) Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Porphyry
... Bardaiṣan
on the
Indian Brahmans (‘On Abstinence ’ IV.17, and at greater length, ‘On the
Styx’, in Porphyrius, Fragmenta,
...
405
Qenneshre, Monastery of
Qenneshrin Contributor:
Jack B.
Tannous
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Qenneshre-Monastery-of
...of monks from the monastery of St. Thomas
near Seleucia Pieria, where he was Abbot , to the banks of the Euphrates and
there founded Qenneshre ca. 530; some ev... ...ry and inscriptions already found offer the prospect of
much new information about the history of the monastery. At present, further
excavations at the site a...
406
Qurillona
Cyrillona (late 4th cent.) Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Qurillona
... 396. Nothing else is known of his life (he has
sometimes been identified as Absamya , reputedly a nephew of Ephrem, who is
said to have written a poem on an inc...
407
...he 16th cent.
There has been much discussion among scholars about the question of whether
the quire with the illuminations (f. 1–14) and the ...
408
Rhétoré, Jacques
Yaʿqo Nukhraya, Yoḥannan bar Qushta (1841–1921) Contributor:
Alessandro
Mengozzi
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Rhetore-Jacques
...in the mountains between Van and Mosul. He stayed in Van until
1908, but was absent between 1894 and 1897, to take up an appointment as
lecturer in Chaldean an... ... the pseudonym Yaʿqo Nukhraya
‘Jacques l’Étranger’. In 1896, during his stay abroad , some of these texts
were edited rather unsatisfactorily under the name of ...
409
Romanos the Melodist
(ca. 485 – ca. 560) Contributor:
William L.
Petersen
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Romanos-the-Melodist
...d during his own life
for his popular hymns, he is reported to have composed about a thousand kontakia, although only 59 have been preserved.
(Another 29 kont...
410
Sabrishoʿ I
(d. 604) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Sabrisho-I
... was born ca. 525. He lived as a shepherd before his village priest saw his
ability and started teaching him. Sabrishoʿ then went on to the School of Nisibis, after which he lived an ... ... of Khusrau II) he convened a
synod to deal with various doctrinal and other abuses . The acts of the synod
contain a preamble which includes a statement of fai... ...s “of Bar Qaiti”), and a Letter by Sabrishoʿ to the same monks.
The tešboḥtā Abun dba-šmayyā qaddiš ba-kyāneh is
attributed to Sabrishoʿ in some sources (but... ... Mar-Jabalaha, de trois autres patriarches..., 288–331); the notices
about him in the Chronicle of
Siirt
(LXV–LXXII; PO
...
411
Salomon, Désiré
(1838–1914) [Chald.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
James F.
Coakley
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Salomon-Desire
...was a priest of the Latin, not the
Chaldean, rite. He was generally known as Aba or ‘Père’ Salomon.) On his
return to Persia he joined the Lazarist mission ...
412
Sargis Bḥira
Sergios Baḥira Contributor:
Barbara H.
Roggema
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Sargis-Bhira
...olemics
between Muslims and Syriac-speaking Christians burgeoned, the rumors about
this Christian tutor of the Prophet were spun out into the Syriac ‘Legend o... ... This story relates how a monk received an apocalyptic vision on
Mount Sinai about the imminent rise of Arab rule. In this vision, a sequence
of theriomorphic... ... of Gen 17:20 regarding the twelve princes of
Ishmael, while the rule of the Abbasids the imminent rise of Arab rule. In this vision, a sequence
of theriomorphic... ... of Gen 17:20 regarding the twelve princes of
Ishmael, while the rule of the about the imminent rise of Arab rule. In this vision, a sequence
of theriomorphic... ... of Gen 17:20 regarding the twelve princes of
Ishmael, while the rule of the Abbasids is projected to end with Caliph
al-Maʾmūn (r. 813–833). It is described how... ... is destined to become the leader of the Arabs. The monk also tells Muḥammad
about his religion and instructs him in a simplified form of Christianity.
He urg... ...onk eventually
codifies in the Qurʾān. The legend ends with another prophecy about ... the
political and social turmoil under the Abbasids
413
...hern Mesopotamia. Its local kings, whose dynastic line appears to go
back to about 130 BC (see Abgarids of
Edessa), used a version of the script which by the 1st cent. had
... ...ssociation with the Ch. of E., is
often called ‘Nestorian’. It is known from about 600, but became very
distinctive much later (13th cent.).
... ...ally Syriac
(like Hebrew and Arabic) developed vowel signs which were placed above and
below the consonants. Two systems emerged, probably in the 8th cent., a...
414
Seleucia-CtesiphonContributor:
Marica C.
Cassis
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Seleucia-Ctesiphon
...cent. BC as a Hellenistic
center by Seleucus I Nicator. Seleucia was largely abandoned for a new
center at Ctesiphon during the Parthian period, possibly due to a...
415
Severos, Commentary of the monk
Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Severos-Commentary-of-the-monk
Catena Severi(9th cent.) [Syr. Orth.]
...ral parts attributed to
Ephrem in his Ephrem edition (1737–1740), but in the absence of any tools
for the critical study of Ephrem, he was unable to address the...
416
Severos bar Mashqo
(d. 684) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Severos-bar-Mashqo
... support of the Muslim
Caliphs. A conflict arose with some metropolitan bps. about the right of
ordination of suffragan bps. When Severos refused to leave tha...
417
Severus of Antioch
(d. 538) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Severus-of-Antioch
...phies of Severus survive; of these the two most important
are those by John, abbot of the monastery of Beth Aphtonia (John bar
Aphtonia), and
...
418
Shaʿya, Elias
(1895–1970) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Shaya-Elias
...ool and renovated the Syriac
mss. of the Mart Shmuni Church. He served as an abbot of
Dayro d-Mor
Matay
...
419
...a in the period
before the Islamization of the area.
The absolute majority of all Christian texts known to us in Sogdian
transmission stems f...
420
Strothmann, Werner
(1907–1996) Contributor:
Hubert
Kaufhold
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Strothmann-Werner
...s years at Göttingen, Strothmann’s focus was on Syriac studies,
which he was able to promote vigorously in Germany and to which he attracted
a great number o...
421
... and from another equally unknown Symmachus, the author of a prose Life of
Abel (ed. with ET, S. P. Brock,
LM
87 [1974], 467–92;
...
422
...contained coins dated as late as 1225, and
offered wall paintings, graves of abbots buried along with their crosses and
staffs, and Syriac inscriptions and rec... ...e rise of such great authors as the theologian
and apologist Ḥabīb b. Khidmā Abū Rāʾita (fl. 828),
Anṭun of
Tagrit
...
423
Tatian
(ca. 120 – ca. 185) Contributor:
William L.
Petersen
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Tatian
...ools, he eventually converted to Christianity and ended up
in Rome, probably about 150. There he became a student of Justin Martyr and
eventually had his own ... ...ection
according to the Savior’ lost; 6. ‘To those who have propounded ideas about
God’ reported as a planned treatise; whether ever written is unknown.
...
424
...s moved to Burj Ḥammūd where it
remains. By T.M.S.’s Golden Jubilee in 1949, about 160 students had
graduated from the orphanage, some of whom became luminari...
425
Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ
Testamentum Domini nostri Jesu Christi Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Testament-of-our-Lord-Jesus-Christ
...mposed by the translator (thus Drijvers). The Testament was
taken over in an abbreviated form in the Syr. Orth. ‘Synodicon’ in ms.
Damascus Patr. 8/11. In Arabic an...
426
Theodore of Mopsuestia
(ca. 350–428) Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Theodore-of-Mopsuestia
...
’s letter to Mari
the Persian was read, which spoke about Theodore in positive terms, later he
again was targeted for his allegedly N...
427
Theodoret of Cyrrhus
(393–466) Contributor:
Robert A.
Kitchen
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Theodoret-of-Cyrrhus
...epsimas of Cyrrhus (fl. late 4th cent.); 16. Maron of
Cyrrhus (d. 410s); 17. Abraham of Cyrrhus (d. 420s); 18. Eusebius of Asikha
(d. 430s); 19. Salamanes by th... ...e Monks’ survive in Syriac translation
(Yaʿqub of Nisibis, Yulyana Saba, and Abraham of
Ḥarran
), and there
...
428
Theodoros bar Wahbun
(d. 1193) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Hubert
Kaufhold
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Theodoros-bar-Wahbun
... direction, and subsequently imprisoned in the
Monastery of Barṣawmo. He was able to escape and made it to
Jerusalem
, where
...
429
Theodosios of Edessa
(late 8th – early 9th cent.) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Theodosios-of-Edessa
...llowed by some agitation among the
Edessenians, which Quryaqos, however, was able to lay to rest (
Michael Rabo
, XII.7; Syr. 493... ... Bar ʿEbroyo
(Ecclesiastical History, ed. Abbeloos and Lamy, vol. 1, 361–64) attributes
to him a Syriac translation of the poe...
430
Theodotos of Amid
(d. 698) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Jack B.
Tannous
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Theodotos-of-Amid
... Theodotos left Amid
and founded his own monastery near the monastery of Mar Abay at Qeleth.
There he would die on 15 Aug. 698.
The Syria...
431
Theophilos of Edessa
(d. 785) [Maron.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Theophilos-of-Edessa
...Theophilos, who is said
to have been a Maronite, served as astrologer to the Abbasid Caliph al-Mahdī
(r. 775–785) and wrote in Arabic several works on astrology... ... historians drew:
the Byzantine historian Theophanes (who must have known an abridged Greek
translation) and the Melkite Agapius of Manbij, who wrote in Arabic. ... ...f overlap between the Maronite Chronicle and
the ‘common source’ referred to above .
Sources
...
432
Timotheos II of Alexandria
Timothy Ailouros (d. 477) [Miaphysite] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Timotheos-II-of-Alexandria
...K. Ter Mekerttschian and E.
Ter-Minassiantz, 1908; text only) but only in an abridged form in Syriac
(not yet fully published). Several of his letters and a refu...
433
Tsereteli, Konstantin
Constantine Tsereteli (1921–2004) Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Tsereteli-Konstantin
... Caucasian and Eastern
languages, including Old Persian, Classical Armenian, Abkhaz , and Avar,
adding Hebrew and Aramaic when he was a graduate student. He sub...
434
... , reportedly visited the Church of Mart Maryam in Urmia and dreamt
about the imminent death of Khan Ahmad. From the 16th cent. onwards, bishops
of U...
435
Wall paintings in Syria and LebanonContributor:
Erica Cruikshank
Dodd
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Wall-paintings-in-Syria-and-Lebanon
...munities, Syr.
Orth., Ch. of E., Maron., Chald., Syr. Cath., Melk., and even Abyssinians
and Copts had moved into Lebanon to profit from new opportunities in trade
... ..., and they
were joined by a further influx of monks from lands as distant as Abyssinia .
By the end of the 15th cent., especially after 1488, the Maronites had
...
436
Yahbalaha I
(415–420) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yahbalaha-I
... tolerance must have continued under Isḥaq’s successor, Cath.
Aḥai (410–15), about whom very little is known. Our main source about
Yahbalaha’s tenure is the Synodicon
Orientale, ... whom very little is known. Our main source about
Yahbalaha’s tenure is the Synodicon
Orientale, ...
437
Yawsep Busnaya
(d. 979) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yawsep-Busnaya
...Hormizd
, but subsequently moved to the
monastery of Abraham , of Beth Ṣayyare (in the ʿAmadiyya region, N. Iraq).
His Life was written b...
438
Yeshuʿ the Stylite
Joshua the Stylite (after 506) [W. Syr.] Contributor:
John W.
Watt
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yeshu-the-Stylite
... highly rhetorical prologue
and epilogue addressed to a (real or fictitious) abbot named Sergios. The
work is an astonishingly rich source for the historian o...
439
Yoḥannan Azraq
Zroqa, al-Azraq (late 7th and early 8th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yohannan-Azraq
...r. Yoḥannan’s name is connected with the
rescue of the virgins, which he was able ... to achieve through prayer, after
Caliph ʿAbd al-Malik had demanded from the Christian inhabitants of Ḥirta
their virgin ... ... to achieve through prayer, after
Caliph ʿAbd al-Malik had demanded from the Christian inhabitants of Ḥirta
their virgin ...
440
Yoḥannan of Dalyatha
(8th cent.) [Ch. of E.] Contributor:
Brian Edric
Colless
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yohannan-of-Dalyatha
.... In his old age
he returned to Qardu, where a group of monks made him their abbot , until his
death. His ascetic writings circulated anonymously (by ‘the spir...
441
Yuḥanon Barbur
(fl. late 6th cent.) [Syr. Orth.
,
then Chalcedonian] Contributor:
Sebastian P.
Brock
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yuhanon-Barbur
.... Add. 12,155
(listed by Van Roey, 353–4). He may be the same person as the Abbot
Yuḥanon’, author of a short extract in a collection of Chalcedonian
...
442
Yuḥanon X, Ishoʿ bar Shushan
Yūḥannā Yūšaʿ b. Šūšān (d. 1072 or 1073) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yuhanon-X-Isho-bar-Shushan
... Bar
ʿEbroyo
(Ecclesiastical History, ed. Abbeloos and Lamy, vol. 1,
435–48).
According to Michael Rabo, Y...
443
Yuḥanon of Ephesus
John of Asia (ca. 507–589) [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Susan Ashbrook
Harvey
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yuhanon-of-Ephesus
... and covering up through 588, provide some of
our most important information about the 6th cent.
Sources
...
444
Zuqnin, Chronicle ofContributor:
Amir
Harrak
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Zuqnin-Chronicle-of
...d altogether they form a unique source on the economic policies
of the early Abbasids , namely Caliph Abū Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr, and on the
history of the Syr. Orth. Church in the Jazīra... , namely Caliph Abū Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr, and on the
history of the Syr. Orth. Church in the Jazīra...
445
...centuries of Islam, al-Anbār remained prosperous, being the residence of the
Abassid Caliphs al-Saffāḥ (750–54) and al-Manṣūr (754–75) until the latter
moved to...
446
al-Dibs, Yūsuf
(1833–1907) [Maron.] Contributor:
George A.
Kiraz
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/al-Dibs-Yusuf
... Of relevance are: 1. a history of Syria in 8 vols. (1893–1905), with an
abridged edition (1907); 2. al-Jāmiʿ al-Mufaṣṣal,
being the sections from the previo...
447
al-Suryān, Dayr
Monastery of the Syrians, Egypt [Syr. Orth.] Contributor:
Lucas
Van Rompay
URI: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/al-Suryan-Dayr
...f of the 10th cent., when
Mushe of Nisibis
was abbot . Syriac inscriptions in the church
bear witness to his building activities.... ...c mss. in Dayr al-Suryān can
be dated. Towards the end of the 15th cent., an abbot of Lebanese origin,
Quryaqos (Cyriacus, also known as Severos) gave a fresh...
448
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