Ephrem - ܐܦܪܝܡ
http://syriaca.org/person/13
“Deacon, poet, and theologian.” 1
Names
- ܐܦܪܝܡ6, 7, 8
- Ephrem
- ܐܲܦܪܹܝܡ5
- ܡܪܝ ܐܦܪܝܡ4
- ܡܳܪܝ ܐܰܦܪܶܝܡ4
- مار افرام الملفان السرياني3
- Ephrem of Edessa
- Éphrem d’Édesse8
- Saint Ephrem
- SAINT ÉPHREM9
- Ap(h)rem16
- Ephraim7
- Ephrem1, 10
- Ephrem8
- Éphrem8
- St. Ephraim the Syrian2
- ʾAfrēm8
Sex
male9
Death
3731
Descriptions
In hagiography: Ephrem is commemorated as a doctor of the church and theologian. Ephrem's ecclesiastical career was based mainly in Nisibis and Edessa. He was the author of hymns, homilies, and prose. His fourth-century writings are remembered as a "golden age" of Syriac literature. His vita as recounted in hagiography differs greatly from historical accounts. One vita transforms him into a Byzantine monk, which is nevertheless a tribute to his importance in both the Syriac and Byzantine Greek churches.
Attestations
Ephrem is commemorated in Ephrem (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/315] .
8Ephrem is commemorated in Ephrem (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/316] .
8Ephrem is commemorated in Ephrem (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/978] .
8Ephrem is commemorated in Ephrem (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/979] .
8Ephrem is commemorated in Ephrem (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/1307] .
8Ephrem is commemorated in Ephrem (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/1928] .
8Ephrem is commemorated in Ephrem (Variation) (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/1666] .
8Ephrem is commemorated in Ephrem (Testament) (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/1387] .
8Ephrem is commemorated in Ephrem of Edessa (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/464] .
8Notes
“Deacon, poet, and theologian.” 1
Saint Ephrem is celebrated by the Syrians on January 28.
The bibliography on Ephrem is immense.
Status: draft
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See Also
Works Cited
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- 1 S. P. Brock, "Ephrem." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), pp: 145-147.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), entry: 9, pp: 229.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), pp: 196.
- 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), pp: 218.
- 5 ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha, Ktābā d-metqre margānitā d-ʿal šrārā da-kresṭyānutā, 2nd ed. (Mosul: Mṭabbaʿtā ātoraytā d-ʿēdtā ʿattiqtā d-madnḥā, 1924), pp: 69.
- 6 Josephus Simonius Assemani, Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana (Rome: Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719-1728)., pp: III:61.
- 7 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Ephraim, Ephrem.
- 8 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 176, 345, 346, 347, 348, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 358, 359, 360, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 398, 399, 400, 401, 402, 403, 728, 729, 794, 795, 796, 797, 798, 799, 800, 801, 802, 803, 804, 805, 806, 807, 808, 809, 810, 811, 812, 813, 815, 816, 817, 818, 819, 820, 821, 822, 823, 824, 825, 826, 827, 828, 829, 830, 831, 832, 833, 834, 908, 996, 999, 1063, 1140, 1141, 1255, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1340, 1466, 1517, 1539, 1742, 1743, 1759, 1760, 1773, 1774, 1786, 1813, 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1945, 1985, 1988, 1996, 95, 96, 788, 789, 1158, 1892, 1593, 1255, 244.
- 9 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 147.
- 10 Kees den Biesen, Bibliography of Ephrem the Syrian (Giove in Umbria [Italy]: [publisher not identified], 2002)., : (Giove in Umbria, 2002).
- 11 Bernard Outtier, "Saint Éphrem d’après ses biographies et ses œuvres." Parole de l'Orient vol. 4 (1973)., : 4 (1973), 12-53.
- 12 Joseph P Amar, "Byzantine ascetic monachism and Greek bias in the vita tradition of
Ephrem the Syrian." Orientalia christiana periodica vol. 58 (1992)., : OCP 58 (1992), 123-58.
- 13 Jean Maurice Fiey, Nisibe, métropole syriaque orientale et ses suffragants des origines à
nos jours (Louvain: Secrétariat du CorpusSCO, 1977)., : 123-35.
- 14 Sebastian P. Brock, The luminous eye: The spiritual world vision of Saint Ephrem (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 1992)., : Kalamazoo, 1992.
- 15 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961-1970)., : IV, 944-49.
- 16 Anton Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur mit Ausschluß der christlich-palästinensischen Texte (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Webers Verlag Dr. jur. Albert Ahn, 1922), pp: 31-52.
- 17 Ignatius Ortiz de Urbina, Patrologia Syriaca, Altera editio emendata et aucta (Romae: Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, 1965), section: 18.
- 18 Rubens Duval, La littérature syriaque, Troisième Edition , Anciennes littératures chrétiennes, vol. 2; Bibliothèque de l'enseignement de l'histoire ecclésiastique (Paris: Librairie Victor Lecoffre, 1907), pp: 329-335.
- 19 J.S. Assemani, De scriptoribus Syris orthodoxis, Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticana vol. 1 (Rome: Typis Sacræ Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719), pp: 24-164.
- 20 J.-B. Chabot, Littérature syriaque, Bibliothèque catholique des sciences religieuses; Littératures chrétiennes de l'Orient (: Librairie Bloud & Gay, 1934), pp: 25-30.
- 21 William Wright, A Short History of Syriac Literature (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1894), pp: 33-37.
- 22 Sebastian Paul Brock, A Brief Outline of Syriac Literature, 2nd ed., rev. and enlarged , Mōrān ʾEthʾō, vol. 9 (Kottayam: St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute, 2008), pp: 16-22.
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Additional Credit:
- Data from Macuch, Abuna, De Urbina, Duval, Assemani (vols. 1-2), Chabot, Wright, and Brock collected, verified, reconciled, and entered by Kristian Heal
- German data entry by Samer Khader
- 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, 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 Jean Maurice Fiey
- Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
- Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne