Isaac of Edessa - ܐܝܣܚܩ ܐܘܪܗܝܐ (sometime between 500 - 600)

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Identity

“Priest and theological writer.” 1

Names:

  • ܐܝܣܚܩ ܐܘܪܗܝܐ
  • ܐܝܣܚܩ ܐܘܪܗܝܐ ܬܪܝܢܐ4
  • ܐܝܣܚܳܩ ܐܘܪܗܳܝܳܐ ܬܪܰܝܳܢܐ4
  • اسحاق الرهاوي الثاني3
  • Isaac of Edessa
  • Isaac of Edessa
  • Isaac the Second of Edessa2
  • Isḥaq of Edessa1


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Dates

  • Floruit: 6th cent.1


Works Cited

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  • 1 E. G. Mathews, Jr, "Isḥaq of Edessa." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), pp: 213.Link to The Srophe web application Bibliographic Record.Link to The Srophe web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 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: 32, pp: 247.Link to The Srophe web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 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: 213.Link to The Srophe web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), pp: 239.Link to The Srophe web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 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: 146-147.Link to The Srophe web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Archive.org Bibliographic record
  • 6 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: 34-35.Link to The Srophe web application Bibliographic Record.
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Relationships

Isaac of Edessa  Different from (2)
Isaac of Amid - ܐܝܣܚܩ ܐܡܝܕܝܐ (A Guide to Syriac Authorsauthor, 4th - early 5th cent. ) Names: Isḥaq of Amid Isaac of Amid Isaac of AntiochIsḥàq von Antiocheia"Priest and writer."URI: http://syriaca.org/person/17
Isaac of Antioch — - ܐܝܣܚܩ ܐܢܛܝܘܟܝܐ (A Guide to Syriac Authorsauthor, 5th cent. ) Names: Isḥaq of Antioch Isaac of Edessa, known as Isaac of AntiochIsaacIsaac d’AntiocheIsaac of EdessaIsaac of Antioch"Priest and writer According to a letter from Yaʿqub of Edessa to Yuḥanon of Litarba Letter 14 ms Brit Libr Add 12 172..."URI: http://syriaca.org/person/33

How to Cite This Entry

James E. Walters et al., “Isaac of Edessa — ܐܝܣܚܩ ܐܘܪܗܝܐ ” in A Guide to Syriac Authors last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/34.

Bibliography:

James E. Walters et al., “Isaac of Edessa — ܐܝܣܚܩ ܐܘܪܗܝܐ .” In A Guide to Syriac Authors, edited by David A. Michelson and Nathan P. Gibson. Vol. 2 of The Syriac Biographical Dictionary, edited by David A. Michelson. Syriaca.org, 2016-. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/34.

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Entry Title: Isaac of Edessa — ܐܝܣܚܩ ܐܘܪܗܝܐ

Authorial and Editorial Responsibility:

  • David A. Michelson, general editor, Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal
  • David A. Michelson and Nathan P. Gibson, editors, A Guide to Syriac Authors
  • James E. Walters, David A. Michelson, Thomas A. Carlson, Nathan P. Gibson, and Kristian Heal, entry contributors, “Isaac of Edessa — ܐܝܣܚܩ ܐܘܪܗܝܐ ”

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, document design, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
  • Matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
  • Editing, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • 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
  • Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts and addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH by Nathan P. Gibson

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