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Job of Edessa - ܐܝܘܒ ܐܘܪܗܝܐ

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"Natural philosopher, translator, and physician, active in Iraq in the first Abbasid cent., nicknamed 'al-Abrash', or 'the Spotted'."1

Names

  • ܐܝܘܒ ܐܘܪܗܝܐ
  • Job of Edessa
  • Ayyūb al-Ruhāwī1
  • Job of Edessa1
  • Ajjûb der Gefleckte3
  • Iyob of Edessa1
  • Job of Edessa2

Floruit

760-835

Notes

"Natural philosopher, translator, and physician, active in Iraq in the first Abbasid cent., nicknamed 'al-Abrash', or 'the Spotted'."1
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  • 1 B. H. Roggema, Iyob of Edessa, in The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 225-226. 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: Job of Edessa