Cyril of Scythopolis - [ Syriac Not Available ]

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A 6th-century monk who lived in several of the Palestinian monasteries and the author of several hagiographic works about Palestinian monks, including one about Euthymius that is extant in Syriac3

Names

  • Cyrille de Scythopolis1
  • Cyril of Scythopolis2
  • Cyril of Skythopolis3

Birth

ca. 525?3

Death

after 559?3

Notes

A 6th-century monk who lived in several of the Palestinian monasteries and the author of several hagiographic works about Palestinian monks, including one about Euthymius that is extant in Syriac3
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 1838.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 S. P. Brock, "Melkite literature in Syriac." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), pp: 285-286, entry: 370.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Alexander P. Kazhdan (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)., entry: Cyril of Skythopolis.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Nathan P. Gibson, “Cyril of Scythopolis” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/2806.

Bibliography:

Nathan P. Gibson, “Cyril of Scythopolis.”, edited by David A. Michelson., edited by David A. Michelson. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/2806.

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