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Alexius, the Man of God - ܓܒܪܐ ܕܐܠܗܐ

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“This general title is given to the anonymous saintly protagonist of a narrative set in Edessa in the 5th cent. The core original story is found in 5 mss. In this account, the Man of God is the son of rich senatorial parents, living either in Rome or Constantinople. ”1

Names

  • ܓܒܪܐ ܕܐܠܗܐ5
  • Alexius, the Man of God
  • ܐܠܟܣܝܘܣ ܪܘܡܝܐ (ܓܒܪܐ ܕܐܠܗܐ)4
  • ܐܰܠܟܣܝܘܣ ܪܘܡܳܝܐ (ܓܰܒܪܐ ܕܰܐܠܗܳܐ)4
  • الكسيوس الروماني (رجل الله)3
  • Alexis5
  • Alexius1
  • Gabra d-ʾAlāhā
  • gaḇrā d-ʾAlāhā5
  • Risha
  • St Alexis7
  • Alexius the Roman (the Man of God)2
  • Alexius, the Man of God2
  • Alexius, the Man of God2
  • Man of God of Edessa1

Floruit

5th cent.

Sex

male6

Notes

“This general title is given to the anonymous saintly protagonist of a narrative set in Edessa in the 5th cent. The core original story is found in 5 mss. In this account, the Man of God is the son of rich senatorial parents, living either in Rome or Constantinople. ”1
In hagiography: Risha (or Alexius) was also known as the man of God of Edessa. He was born a rich man, but he lived as a beggar in Edessa. He gave all that he had to the poor. He lived at the time of Bishop Rabbula of Edessa.
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    Works Cited

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    • 1 R. Doran,Man of God of Edessa,inThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 260.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, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd revised (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 173.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: 150.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and ܕܒܝܬ ܒܪܨܘܡܐܝܓܢܐܛܝܘܣ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܩܕܡܝܐ, ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani and ܕܘܠܒܐܢܝܦܝܠܠܘܟܣܝܢܘܣ ܝܘܚܢܢ, ܚܬܳܡܳܐ ܬܪܰܝܳܢܳܐ2nd ed. (Holland: ܡܛܒܥܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐBar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 172.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 5 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 890, 1125.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 6 Jean-Maurice Fiey,Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 366.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 7 Sergey Minov, ed.,A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: St Alexis.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 8 Robert Doran,Stewards of the Poor: The Man of God, Rabbula, and Hiba in Fifth-Century Edessa, Cistercian Studies Series 208 (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications, 2006)Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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    Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Alexius, the Man of God — ܓܒܪܐ ܕܐܠܗܐ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/607.

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    Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Alexius, the Man of God — ܓܒܪܐ ܕܐܠܗܐ .”, 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/607.

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    Entry Title: Alexius, the Man of God — ܓܒܪܐ ܕܐܠܗܐ

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    • 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
    • Editing, Syriac name entry, Arabic name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
    • 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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