George, bishop of the Arabs - ܓܘܪܓܝ ܐܦܝܣܩܘܦܐ ܕܥܪ̈ܒܝܐ
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“Bp. and learned author.” 1
Names
- ܓܘܪܓܝ ܐܦܝܣܩܘܦܐ ܕܥܪ̈ܒܝܐ
- George, bishop of the Arabs
- ܡܪܝ ܓܘܪܓܝ ܐܦܝܣܩܘܦܐ ܕܥܡܡ̈ܐ4
- ܡܳܪܝ ܓܶܘܰܪܓܝ ܐܶܦܝܣܩܘܦܳܐ ܕܥܰܡܡ̈ܐ4
- مار جرجس اسقف العرب3
- GEORGES, ÉVÊQUE DES ARABES7
- George, bishop of the Arabs5
- George, Bishop of the Arab Tribes
- Georgius ep. Arabum10
- Georges des Arabes6
- George, bp. of the Arab tribes
- Giwargi, bp. of the Arab tribes1
- Mar George, bishop of the Arabs2
Sex
male7
Descriptions
In hagiography: George of the Arabs is commemorated as a student of Severus of Sebokht at Qenneshre, who was versed in all the branches of knowledge of his time. George became Bishop of the Arab tribes in 686. His seat was in Aqula.
Notes
“Bp. and learned author.” 1
Status: draft
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Works Cited
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- 1 S. P. Brock, "Giwargi, bp. of the Arab tribes." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), pp: 177-178.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), entry: 118, pp: 354.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), pp: 308.
- 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), pp: 337.
- 5 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: George, bishop of the Arabs.
- 6 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 854, 863, 1691.
- 7 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 169.
- 8 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum
orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., : I, 1081-82.
- 9 Anton Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur mit Ausschluß der christlich-palästinensischen Texte (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Webers Verlag Dr. jur. Albert Ahn, 1922), pp: 257-258.
- 10 Ignatius Ortiz de Urbina, Patrologia Syriaca, Altera editio emendata et aucta (Romae: Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, 1965), section: 131.
- 11 J.S. Assemani, De scriptoribus Syris orthodoxis, Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticana vol. 1 (Rome: Typis Sacræ Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719), pp: 494-95.
- 12 J.-B. Chabot, Littérature syriaque, Bibliothèque catholique des sciences religieuses; Littératures chrétiennes de l'Orient (: Librairie Bloud & Gay, 1934), pp: 88.
- 13 Sebastian Paul Brock, A Brief Outline of Syriac Literature, 2nd ed., rev. and enlarged , Mōrān ʾEthʾō, vol. 9 (Kottayam: St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute, 2008), pp: 50-51.
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Entry Title: George, bishop of the Arabs — ܓܘܪܓܝ ܐܦܝܣܩܘܦܐ ܕܥܪ̈ܒܝܐ
Additional Credit:
- Data from Macuch, Abuna, De Urbina, Duval, Assemani (vols. 1-2), Chabot, Wright, and Brock collected, verified, reconciled, and entered by Kristian Heal
- German data entry by Samer Khader
- Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
- Editing, document design, data architecture, encoding, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
- Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts, addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH, matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, data merging, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
- GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
- Editing, Syriac name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
- Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo
- Syriac name entry by Robert Aydin
- Arabic name entry by Jad Kaado
- Normalization of GEDSH dates and entry matching with viaf.org records by Alex Vawter
- Editorial oversight for GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry, and proofreading by Christopher Johnson
- GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry and proofreading by the Syriac Research Group, University of Alabama
- Entries adapted from the work of Jean Maurice Fiey
- Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
- Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne