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Jacob the Recluse - ܝܥܩܘܒ

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Jacob the Recluse fled for the desert of Egypt during the persecution of the emperor Julian. He then headed to East to Mesopotamia with companions. They lived in a tower. Eventually he built a monastery at Salah in Ṭur ʿAbdin.

Names

  • ܝܥܩܘܒ1
  • Jacob the Recluse
  • Jacob the Reclus
  • JACQUES LE RECLUS2
  • Jacques le Reclus1
  • Jacques le Reclus (de Salah)1
  • St Jacob the Recluse5
  • Yaʾqōḇ1
  • Yaʿqōb

Death

421

Sex

male2

Notes

Nau offers a summary of his story.3
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca., entry: 1233, 974.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 227.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 François Nau, "Résumé de monographies syriaques: Barṣauma, Abraham de la Haute Montagne, Siméon de Kefar ‘Abdin, Yaret l’Alexandrin, Jacques le reclus, Romanus, Talia, Asia, Pantaléon, Candida, Sergis et Abraham de Cašcar." Revue de l’Orient chrétien II, 8 [18] (1913)., p: 3-12.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961)., vol: VI, p: 353.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013)., entry: St Jacob the Recluse.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Jacob the Recluse — ܝܥܩܘܒ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1299.

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Jacob the Recluse — ܝܥܩܘܒ .”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1299.

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Entry Title: Jacob the Recluse — ܝܥܩܘܒ

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