John of Ephesus - ܡܟܬܒܢܐ
http://syriaca.org/person/74
“Monk, missionary, church leader, (titular) Bp. of
Ephesus, hagiographer, and historian.”1
Names
- ܝܘܚܢܢ1
- ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܐܦܣܘܣ4
- John of Ephesus
- ܝܘܚܰܢܢ ܕܶܐܦܣܘܣ4
- ܡܟܬܒܢܐ
- يوحنا الافسسي3
- Ioannes2
- Ioannes Ephesi (aut Asiae)8
- John of Asia1
- John of Ephesus
- Jean d’Éphèse6
- John of Ephesus2
- Yuḥanon of Ephesus1
Floruit
558-588
Birth
ca. 507
Ingila
Death
589
Sex
male16
Notes
“Monk, missionary, church leader, (titular) Bp. of
Ephesus, hagiographer, and historian.”1
“Born in 507 in Roman Mesopotamia, John became a monk already in his childhood. Since the late 530s, he mainly lived in Constantinople where he enjoyed good relations with Justinian despite his miaphysite convictions. John earned fame with his missionary campaigns in Asia Minor and rose, in 558, to become bishop and one of the miaphysite leaders in Constantinople. John participated in the debates to find a formula of faith that could be accepted by both the miaphysites and the Chalcedonians. He was a victim of the miaphysite persecution starting in 571 and repeatedly imprisoned until his death in about 589. He wrote the Lives of the Eastern Saints, a collection of hagiographic tales, and a large Ecclesiastical History, of which the third part dealing with the events of the 570s and 580s has been preserved.”15
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"John of Ephesus" in WikipediaWorks Cited
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- 1 S. A. Harvey,Yuḥanon of Ephesus,inThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 445.
- 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), entry: 69, p: 304.
- 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: 264.
- 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: 291.
- 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 of Ephesus.
- 6 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 582, 583, 584, 585, 586, 587, 588, 589, 590, 591, 592, 593, 594, 595, 596,
597, 599, 600, 601, 602, 603, 604, 605, 606, 607, 608, 609, 610, 611, 612, 613, 614,
615, 616, 617, 618, 619, 620, 621, 622, 623, 624, 625, 626, 627, 628, 629, 630, 632,
633, 634, 635, 636, 637, 638, 639, 640, 641, 793, 1925.
- 7 Anton Baumstark,Geschichte Der Syrischen Literatur, Mit Ausschluss Der Christlich-Palästinensischen
Texte (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1922), p: 181-182.
- 8 Ignatius Ortiz de Urbina,Patrologia Syriaca, Altera editio emendata et aucta (Romae: Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum,
1965), section: 115.
- 9 J.S. Assemani,De Scriptoribus Syris Monophysitis (Rome: Typis Sacræ Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719), p: 83-90.
- 10 J.-B. Chabot,Littérature Syriaque, Bibliothèque Catholique Des Sciences Religieuses (Librairie Bloud & Gay, 1934), p: 74-76.
- 11 William Wright,A Short History of Syriac Literature (London: A. and C. Black, 1894), p: 102-7.
- 12 Sebastian P. Brock,A Brief Outline of Syriac Literature, Mōrān ’Eth’ō 9 (Baker Hill, Kottayam: St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute,
1997), p: 37.
- 13 Ernest Walter Brooks,Iohannis Ephesini Historiae Ecclesiasticae Pars Tertia, 2 vols., CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935), p: 19; 52; 53; 58; 59; 61; 64; 65; 74; 107; 111; 141; 142; 169; 170; 171; 228; 252;
253; 258, chapter: 3.1.17; 3.2.4; 3.2.5; 3.2.6; 3.2.7; 3.2.13; 3.2.41; 3.2.44; 3.3.15;
3.3.16; 3.3.36; 3.3.37; 3.4.45; 3.5.1; 3.5.7.
- 14 Sylvain Destephen,Prosopographie chrétienne du Bas-Empire, t. 3: Prosopographie du diocèse d’Asie (325–641) (Paris: Association des Amis du Centre d’histoire et civilisation de Byzance, 2008), entry: Ioannes 43, p: 494-519.
- 15 Sylvain Destephen,Prosopographie chrétienne du Bas-Empire, t. 3: Prosopographie du diocèse d’Asie (325–641) (Paris: Association des Amis du Centre d’histoire et civilisation de Byzance, 2008), p: 494-519.
- 16 Ernest Walter Brooks,Iohannis Ephesini Historiae Ecclesiasticae Pars Tertia, 2 vols., CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935), p: 19; 52; 53; 58; 59; 61; 64; 65; 74; 107; 111; 141; 142; 169; 170; 171; 228; 252;
253; 258.
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- Data from John of Ephesus added by Silvio Roggo
- 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, document design, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
- Matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
- GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
- Editing, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Syriac name entry by Robert Aydin
- Arabic name entry by Jad Kaado
- 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
- Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts and addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH by Nathan P. Gibson