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Jacob of Nisibis - ܝܥܩܘܒ ܕܢܨܝܒܝܢ

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“First recorded bp. of Nisibis.”1

Names

  • ܝܥܩܘܒ ܕܢܨܝܒܝܢ
  • Jacob of Nisibis
  • ܝܥܩܘܒ6
  • ܡܪܝ ܝܥܩܘܒ ܐܦܝܣܩܘܦܐ ܕܢܨܝܒܝܢ4
  • ܡܳܪܝ ܝܰܥܩܽܘܒ ܐܶܦܺܝܣܩܽܘܦܐ ܕܰܢܨܺܝܒܺܝܢ4
  • مار يعقوب اسقف نصيبين3
  • Jacob
  • Jacob of Nisibis
  • JACQUES7
  • Jacques de Nisibe6
  • Yaqub of Nisibis
  • Yaʾqōḇ6
  • Yaʿqōb
  • Ya‘qub of Nisibis
  • Jacob of Nisibis5
  • St. Jacob, bishop of Nisibin2
  • Yaʿqub of Nisibis1

Floruit

308-338

Death

337/8

Sex

male7

Notes

“First recorded bp. of Nisibis.”1
In hagiography: Jacob was an important Bishop of Nisibis who built the large church of Nisibis. Ephrem the Syrian was deacon under him. He played an active role in the condemnation of Arius. The preservation of Nisibis when Shapur besieged it was attributed to his prayers.
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Works Cited

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  • 1 J. P. Amar,Yaʿqub of Nisibis,inThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 433.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: 230.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: 196.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: 220.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Sergey Minov, ed.,A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Jacob of Nisibis.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 122, 123.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 Jean-Maurice Fiey,Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 220.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 8 Paulus Bedjan,Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum, 7 vols. (Paris / Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1890), vol: IV, p: 263-73.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 9 Paul Peeters,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 405-11.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 10 Addai Scher,Kitāb Sīrat ’ašhar Šuhadā’ al-Mašriq al-Qiddisīn, 2 vols. (Mossoul: Imprimerie des pères dominicains, 1900), vol: II, p: 1-10.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 11 Paul Peeters,La Légende de Saint Jacques de Nisibe,Analecta Bollandiana 38 (1920): 285–373, p: 285-373.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 12 Jean-Maurice Fiey,Nisibe, Métropole Syriaque Orientale et Ses Suffragants Des Origines à Nos Jours, CSCO 388, Subs. 54 (Louvain: Secrétariat du CorpusSCO, 1977), p: 21-26.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 13 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII,Bibliotheca sanctorum, 13 vols. (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961), vol: VI, p: 411-12.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., “Jacob of Nisibis — ܝܥܩܘܒ ܕܢܨܝܒܝܢ ” last modified December 9, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/811.

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Jacob of Nisibis — ܝܥܩܘܒ ܕܢܨܝܒܝܢ .”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published December 9, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/811.

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Entry Title: Jacob of Nisibis — ܝܥܩܘܒ ܕܢܨܝܒܝܢ

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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, Arabic 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
  • 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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