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Zayʿa - ܙܝܥܐ

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Zayʿa was one of the most popular saints in the Chaldean and Assyrian villages. He was a Palestinian and was a missionary to northern Iraq, along with his disciple Tabor. He lived forty years in a cave of Mount Gara.

Names

  • ܙܝܥܐ1
  • Zayʿa
  • St Zaya6
  • Zaï‘a1
  • Zay'a
  • ZAY'A2
  • Zayʾā1
  • Zayʿa

Floruit

350-450

Sex

male2

Notes

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Works Cited

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  • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca., entry: 34.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: 469.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Paulus Bedjan, Acta martyrum et sanctorum (Paris / Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1890-1897), vol: I, p: 398-423.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Paul Peeters, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 1251.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Addai Scher, Kitāb sīrat ’ašhar šuhadā’ al-Mašriq al-qiddisīn (Mossoul: Imprimerie des pères dominicains, 1900-1906)., vol: II, p: 129-32.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013)., entry: St Zaya.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

How to Cite This Entry

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Zayʿa — ܙܝܥܐ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1525.

Bibliography:

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Zayʿa — ܙܝܥܐ .”, 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/1525.

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Entry Title: Zayʿa — ܙܝܥܐ

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  • Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
  • Data architecture and encoding by David A. Michelson
  • Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
  • Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo
  • Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
  • Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne

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