Jacob - [ Syriac Not Available ]
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In hagiography:
Jacob was a monk, visionary, and chanter from Beth Garmai. He took over
the leadership of a monastery founded by Ishoʿyahb which came to be named
after Jacob.
Names
- Jacob
- JACQUES (YA'QŪB)1
Birth
627
Death
717
Sex
male1
Notes
In hagiography: Jacob was a monk, visionary, and chanter from Beth Garmai. He took over the leadership of a monastery founded by Ishoʿyahb which came to be named after Jacob.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: 219.
- 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° 140.
- 4 Thomas of Marga, The Book of Governors, ed. E. A. Wallis Budge, vol. I, 2 vols. (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd., 1893), http://archive.org/details/bookgovernorshi01thomgoog, vol: IIp: 119-21.
- 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: 711-16.
- 6 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium], 2 vols. (Roma: Città nuova, 1998), vol: Ip: 1023-24.
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