Abraham of Kashkar - ܐܒܪܗܡ ܟܫܟܪܝܐ
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“Monk, founder and abbot of the ‘Great Monastery’ on Mount Izla.” 1
Names
- ܐܒܪܗܡ ܟܫܟܪܝܐ
- Abraham of Kashkar
- ܐܒܪܗܡ3
- ܐܒܪܗܡ ܟܫܟܪܝܐ3
- Abraham de Kashkar3
- ABRAHAM DE KAŜKAR4
- Abraham e Kashkar15
- Abraham Kashkaraya
- Abraham the Great
- Abraham of Kashkar1, 10
- ʾAḇrāhām3
- ʾAḇrāhām Kaškarāyā3
Sex
male4
Descriptions
In hagiography: Abraham of Kashkar (Abraham the Great of Kashkar, or "the elder") was a celebrated reformer of monasticism in Mesopotamia and a great saint of the Church of the East. A student of the School of Nisibis, Abraham was a missionary, ascetic, and miracle-worker. He was called "Father of the Monks of the Orient."
Attestations
Abraham of Kashkar is commemorated in Abraham of Kashkar (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/1145] .
3Abraham of Kashkar is commemorated in Sergius and Abraham of Kashkar (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/1144] .
3Notes
“Monk, founder and abbot of the ‘Great Monastery’ on Mount Izla.” 1
The commemoration of Abraham was May 2 among the East Syrians.
Earliest sources of the Life of Abraham (Abba John and Rabban Rustam) are lost, but they were used by the following:
Status: underReview
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Works Cited
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- 1 L. Van Rompay, "Abraham of Kashkar." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), pp: 8-9.
- 2 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Abraham of Kashkar.
- 3 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 982, 981.
- 4 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 23.
- 5 Īšō‘dnāḥ de al-Baṣra, Le livre de la chasteté (Rome, 1896).
- 6 Thomas of Marga, Liber superiorum seu Historia Monastica (Paris and Leipzig: Dicta de Sèvres; Harrassowitz, 1901)., : I.4.
- 7 Mārī Ibn Sulaymān and E Gismondi, Aḫbār faṭārika kursī al-mašriq min kitāb al-maǧdal (Rome: C. de Luigi, 1899)., : 47 arabe.
- 8 Addai Scher, Chronicle Of Seert, Patrologia Orientalis (n.d.), : II, 41-43.
- 9 Paul Peeters and Société de Bollandistes, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis (1910)., : Entry 14.
- 10 E.A. Wallis Budge (ed.), I. The History of Rabban Hôrmîzd the Persian. II. The History of Rabban Bar-ʿIdtâThe Syriac Texts, Luzac's Semitic Text and Translation Series, (London: Luzac, 1902London, 1902)E.A. Wallis Budge, The Histories of Rabban Hôrmîzd the Persian and Rabban Bar-ʿIdtâ vol. 1 (London: Luzac, 1902London, 1902), : ROC 11 [1906], 406-408.
- 11 Arthur Vööbus, Syriac and Arabic documents regarding legislation relative to Syrian
asceticism. (Stockholm: Etse, 1960)., : 1960, 150-62, Note:
His rules were edited in Syriac and translated into English
.
- 12 Alfred Baudrillart et al., Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1912)., : I, col. 174-75, Note:
Summary in
.
- 13 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum
orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., : I, 26-28.
- 14 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: 130-131.
- 15 Ignatius Ortiz de Urbina, Patrologia Syriaca, Altera editio emendata et aucta (Romae: Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, 1965), section: 72.
- 16 J.-B. Chabot, Littérature syriaque, Bibliothèque catholique des sciences religieuses; Littératures chrétiennes de l'Orient (: Librairie Bloud & Gay, 1934), pp: 52-53.
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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Abraham of Kashkar — ܐܒܪܗܡ ܟܫܟܪܝܐ .”, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, David A. Michelson and Nathan P. Gibson. Vol. 1 of The Syriac Biographical Dictionary, edited by David A. Michelson. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/320.About this Entry
Entry Title: Abraham of Kashkar — ܐܒܪܗܡ ܟܫܟܪܝܐ
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- Data from Macuch, Abuna, De Urbina, Duval, Assemani (vols. 1-2), Chabot, Wright, and Brock collected, verified, reconciled, and entered by Kristian Heal
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