Israel of Alqosh - ܝܣܪܝܠ ܕܐܠܩܘܫ

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"E-Syr. priest, poet, scholar, and scribe, founder of the Shikwānā (or Qashā) family of scribes."1

Names

  • ܝܣܪܝܠ ܕܐܠܩܘܫ
  • Israel of Alqosh
  • Israel of Alqosh
  • Israel of Alqosh1
  • Israël d’Alqosh3

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."1
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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. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 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