An East-Syriac Scholar in Ninth-Century Damascus: A Note on Bišr ibn al-Sirrī’s Festal Homilies and His Confessional Identity

An East-Syriac Scholar in Ninth-Century Damascus: A Note on Bišr ibn al-Sirrī’s Festal Homilies and His Confessional IdentityScriniumSyriaca.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/WM5R75U3/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.AlexanderTreigerAn East-Syriac Scholar in Ninth-Century Damascus: A Note on Bišr ibn al-Sirrī’s Festal Homilies and His Confessional Identityhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/WM5R75U3https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/WM5R75U3https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/WM5R75U3Scrinium192023388-413The ninth-century Damascene Christian scholar, priest, and monk Bišr ibn al-Sirrī (fl. ca. 870) is known as the author of Arabic biblical translations and commentaries and Arabic festal homilies. The present contribution demonstrates that the homilies contained in Sinai ar. 431 without attribution are to be ascribed to Bišr ibn al-Sirrī. It also examines new evidence for Bišr ibn al-Sirrī’s Christology and proves that Bišr ibn al-Sirrī was an East-Syriac Christian. Treiger, Alexander. “An East-Syriac Scholar in Ninth-Century Damascus: A Note on Bišr Ibn al-Sirrī’s Festal Homilies and His Confessional Identity.” Scrinium 19 (2023): 388–413. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-bja10082. Alexander Treiger, An East-Syriac Scholar in Ninth-Century Damascus: A Note on Bišr Ibn al-Sirrī’s Festal Homilies and His Confessional Identity, Scrinium 19 (2023): 388–413, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-bja10082.