Ishoʿyahb - [ Syriac Not Available ]
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In hagiography:
Ishoʿyahb became a monk of Mount Izla. According to legend, he founded a convent in a
place where Kurds were supposed to have sacrifices to the demons. He healed
many people.
Names
- Ishoʿyahb
- ĪŠŌ'YAW1
Death
685
Sex
male1
Notes
In hagiography: Ishoʿyahb became a monk of Mount Izla. According to legend, he founded a convent in a place where Kurds were supposed to have sacrifices to the demons. He healed many people.Status: incomplete
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Works Cited
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- 1 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 210.
- 3 Īšō‘dnāḥ de al-Baṣra, Le livre de la chasteté, ed. Jean Baptiste Chabot (Rome, 1896), http://ebooks.library.ualberta.ca/local/lelivredelachast00ishduoft, entry: n° 139.
- 4 Addai Scher, Chronicle Of Seert, Patrologia Orientalis, 2015, http://archive.org/details/ScherChronicleOfSeertcombined1, vol: IIp: 195-96.
- 5 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Assyrie Chrétienne. Contribution à l’étude de l’histoire et de La Géographie Ecclésiastiques et Monastiques Du Nord de I’Iraq, 3 vols., Recherches Publiées Sous La Direction de l’lnstitut de Lettres Orientales de Beyrouth 22, 34, 42 (Beyrouth: Imprimerie catholique, 1965), vol: IIp: 707-37.
- 6 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium], 2 vols. (Roma: Città nuova, 1998), vol: IIp: 261.
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