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John bar Aphtonia - ܝܘܚܢܢ ܒܪ ܐܦܬܘܢܝܐ

http://syriaca.org/person/52
“Monastic founder and author.”1

Names

  • ܝܘܚܢܢ ܒܪ ܐܦܬܘܢܝܐ4
  • John bar Aphtonia
  • ܝܘܚܢܢ ܒܪ ܐܦܬܘܢܝܐ6
  • ܝܘܚܰܢܢ ܒܪ ܐܰܦܬܘܢܝܰܐ4
  • يوحنا ابن افتونيا3
  • Jean bar Aphtonia6
  • JEAN BAR APHTONIA7
  • John bar Aphthonia
  • John Bar Aphtonia
  • John bar Aphtonia
  • Yōḥanān bar ʾAptōnyā6
  • Yuḥanān bar Aptoniyā
  • Jean bar Aphtonia6
  • Jean bar Aphtonya6
  • John bar Aphtonia1
  • John Bar Aphtonia2

Birth

475

Death

5371 or 5387

Sex

male7

Event

The saint is venerated on 4 February (4 Shebaṭ) by Syr. iacob. 7

Notes

Status: draft  Is this record complete?

See Also

Works Cited

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  • 1 J. W. Childers, "John bar Aphtonia." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011)., p: 229.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Ignatius Aphram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, 2nd revised (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2003)., entry: 48, p: 289.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and اغناطيوس افرام الاول برصوم, كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, الطبعة الرابعة4th ed. (Holland: مطبعة ابن العبري بدير مار افرام السريانيBar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987)., p: 250.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and ܐܝܓܢܐܛܝܘܣ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܩܕܡܝܐ ܕܒܝܬ ܒܪܨܘܡ, ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, ܚܬܳܡܳܐ ܬܪܰܝܳܢܳܐ2nd ed. (Holland: ܡܛܒܥܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐBar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991)., p: 275.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: John bar Aphtonia.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca., entry: 467, 469, 470, 471, 560, 561, 562, 952, 953, 566, 951.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 237.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 8 François Nau, "Histoire de l'Illustre Jean, Supérieur du Saint Monastére d'Aphtonia, écrite par l'un de ses disciples." Revue de l'Orient chrétien vol. 7 (1902)., p: 97-135.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Archive.org Bibliographic record
  • 9 Paul Peeters, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 497.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 10 Jan Willem Drijvers and J. W. Watt (eds.), Portraits of spiritual authority : religious power in early Christianity, Byzantium, and the Christian Orient, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, (Leiden: Brill, 1999), p: 155-69.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 11 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., vol: I, p: 1112.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 12 Anton Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur, mit Ausschluss der christlich-palästinensischen Texte (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1922)., p: 181.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 13 J.-B. Chabot, Littérature syriaque, Bibliothèque catholique des sciences religieuses (Librairie Bloud & Gay, 1934), p: 73.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., “John bar Aphtonia — ܝܘܚܢܢ ܒܪ ܐܦܬܘܢܝܐ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/52.

Bibliography:

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “John bar Aphtonia — ܝܘܚܢܢ ܒܪ ܐܦܬܘܢܝܐ .”, 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/52.

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Entry Title: John bar Aphtonia — ܝܘܚܢܢ ܒܪ ܐܦܬܘܢܝܐ

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, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
  • Editing, document design, data architecture, encoding, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
  • Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts, addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH, matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, data merging, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
  • Editing, Syriac name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
  • Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo
  • Syriac name entry by Robert Aydin
  • 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
  • Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
  • Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne

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