Denha — <foreign xml:lang="syr">ܕܢܚܐ</foreign> Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The National Endowment for the Humanities The International Balzan Prize Foundation James E. Walters David A. Michelson Thomas A. Carlson Nathan P. Gibson Editing, document design, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson Matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters Editing, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson Syriac name entry by Robert Aydin Arabic name entry by Jad Kaado 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 Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal http://syriaca.org/person/160/tei

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Significant updates to syriacaAll and syriacaPersons schemas have required updates to data and fixing of errors in the data. The most significant updates were to the relation, status, and seriesStmt elements and to the @ana att on person and personGrp. Cleaned up record as part of revision to schema (see github issue https://github.com/srophe/srophe-app-data/issues/1059. Major updates to data model in conjunction with schema work requiring some updates to data as well. CHANGED: Implemented July 2020 batch changes, see https://github.com/srophe/srophe-app-data/issues/878. Update persName texts nodes from new headwords. Insert new headwords, new headword id ends with '-h'. Split names in authors into forename and surname. Move headword attribute from Gedesh to first English name. ADDED: Abstract and office that had erroneously been in http://syriaca.org/person/97 ADDED: Renumbered bibl xml:id attributes and source references to be sequential. ADDED: syriaca-computed-end for elements with date attributes CREATED: person Denha Denḥa The Priest-Philosopher Denḥa القس دنحا الفيلسوف ܩܫܝܫܐ ܕܢܚܐ ܦܝܠܣܘܦܐ ܩܰܫܝܫܳܐ ܕܰܢܚܳܐ ܦܺܝܠܳܣܘܦܐ ܕܢܚܐ http://syriaca.org/person/160 http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/SRP|person_160 Priest and monk in the Monastery of St. George, and the author of a lengthy treatise in the heptasyllable meter against the heretics, which Barsoum cited from the Didascalia in Midyat. 9th century? Philosopher Priest Author The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences 159 390 كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية 342 ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ 371 It is unclear why Barsoum asserts that this apparently West Syrian Denha is the same as an East Syrian Denha who wrote a commentary on the Psalms and several other works. His placement of this West Syrian Denha in the 9th century does not have any apparent basis besides this identification, and should also be held loosely.