Israel of Alqosh - ܝܣܪܝܠ ܕܐܠܩܘܫ
http://syriaca.org/person/566
"E-Syr. priest, poet, scholar, and scribe, founder
of the Shikwānā (or Qashā) family of scribes."1
Names
Floruit
around the end of the 16th and the first decades of the 17th cent.
Notes
"E-Syr. priest, poet, scholar, and scribe, founder of the Shikwānā (or Qashā) family of scribes."1Status: draft
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Works Cited
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- 1 A. Mengozzi, Israel of Alqosh, in The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 224.
- 2 Sergey Minov, ed., A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Israel of Alqosh
