That Exalted Heaven and This Visible Firmament: Aḥob of Qatar’s Cosmological Mapping of Psalm 104:2–3Journal of Eastern Christian StudiesSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/7A42MXG7/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.SethStadelThat Exalted Heaven and This Visible Firmament: Aḥob of Qatar’s Cosmological Mapping of Psalm 104:2–3http://syriaca.org/cbss/7A42MXG7https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/7A42MXG7https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/7A42MXG7Journal of Eastern Christian Studies75:1-220231-18Aḥob of Qatar is a late 6th-century East Syriac biblical commentator whose cosmology has not previously been studied. Aḥob’s cosmology is preserved in two parts in several late 19th-century <i>Denḥa-Grigor Commentary</i> (first half of the 9th century?) manuscripts: one part is a scholion connected to Psalm 104 and the other part is a diagrammatic illustration (in four related witnesses), which portrays five levels of heaven as envisioned by Aḥob. This paper introduces and presents Aḥob’s cosmology in six parts: 1) an exploration of the authorship of the original version of the diagrammatic illustration, 2) an analyzed study of the rare word ܩܢܘܒܘܪܘܢ, which is used in both Aḥob’s Psalm 104:2–3 scholion and the four witnesses of the diagrammatic illustration, 3) an examination of the extant contents of Aḥob’s cosmology, 4) a discussion of the sources and significance of Aḥob’s cosmology, 5) a presentation of the first annotated edition and English translation of Aḥob’s Psalm 104:2–3 scholion and diagrammatic illustration, and 6) a presentation of the images of the diagrammatic illustration’s four witnesses.
Stadel, Seth. “That Exalted Heaven and This Visible Firmament: Aḥob of Qatar’s Cosmological Mapping of Psalm 104:2–3.” Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 75:1-2 (2023): 1–18. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/17831520-20230023.
Seth Stadel, That Exalted Heaven and This Visible Firmament: Aḥob of Qatar’s Cosmological Mapping of Psalm 104:2–3,Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 75:1-2 (2023): 1–18, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/17831520-20230023.Ahob of QatarIV-VII CENestoriansOld TestamentPs 104PsalmsVI CEcosmologyexegesisheaven