John bar Aphtonia - ܝܘܚܢܢ ܒܪ ܐܦܬܘܢܝܐ
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“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
Sex
male7
Birth
4757
Descriptions
In hagiography: John bar Aphtonia is commemorated as a saint born in Edessa and named after his mother, Aphtonia, who consecrated him to God. He joined the monastery of St. Thomas in Seleucia Pieria near Antioch. According to tradition, he was later chased out of the area by Chalcedonians (in the 530s) and founded the monastery of Qenneshrin on the Euphrates, across from Europos. He wrote a Life of Severus of Antioch
[http://syriaca.org/work/120]
which survives in several versions.
Event
The saint is venerated on Syr. iacob., tesr. post. 4..
7
Attestations
John bar Aphtonia is commemorated in John bar Aphthonia (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/777] .
6John bar Aphtonia is commemorated in John Bar Aphthonia (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/1119] .
6Notes
“Monastic founder and author.” 1
Status: draft
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Works Cited
Any information without attribution has been created following the Syriaca.org editorial guidelines.
- 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), pp: 229.
- 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: 48, pp: 289.
- 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: 250.
- 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), pp: 275.
- 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.
- 6 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 467, 469, 470, 471, 560, 561, 562, 952, 953, 566, 951.
- 7 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 237.
- 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)., : 97-135.
- 9 Paul Peeters and Société de Bollandistes, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis (1910)., : 497.
- 10 Jan Willem Drijvers and J. W. Watt, "Portraits of spiritual authority : religious power in early
Christianity, Byzantium, and the Christian Orient." (Brill, 1999)., : (Leiden, 1999), 155-69.
- 11 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum
orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., : I, lll2.
- 12 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: 181.
- 13 J.-B. Chabot, Littérature syriaque, Bibliothèque catholique des sciences religieuses; Littératures chrétiennes de l'Orient (: Librairie Bloud & Gay, 1934), pp: 73.
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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “John bar Aphtonia — ܝܘܚܢܢ ܒܪ ܐܦܬܘܢܝܐ
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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “John bar Aphtonia — ܝܘܚܢܢ ܒܪ ܐܦܬܘܢܝܐ .”, 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/52.About this Entry
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 Jean Maurice Fiey
- Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
- Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne