Elijah of Nisibis - ܐܠܝܐ ܢܨܝܒܝܢܝܐ (975 - 1046)

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Identity

“Metropolitan of Nisibis and author.” 1

Names:

  • ܐܠܝܐ ܢܨܝܒܝܢܝܐ
  • ܐܠܝܐ ܒܪ ܫܢܝܐ ܡܝܛܪܦܘܠܝܛܐ ܕܨܘܒܐ6, 7
  • ܐܠܝܐ ܢܨܝܒܝܢܝܐ ܕܝܕܝܥ ܒܪܝܫܝܢܝܐ4
  • ܐܶܠܝܐ ܢܨܺܝܒܺܝܢܳܝܐ ܕܺܝܕܺܝܥ ܒܪܺܝܫܝܢܳܝܐ4
  • ܐܹܠܝܼܵܐ ܒܲܪ ܫܸܢܵܝܵܐ ܡܝܼܛܪܵܦܘܿܠܹܝܛܵܐ ܕܨܘܿܒܵܐ5
  • المطران ايليا النصيبيني المعروف بابن السنّي3
  • Elias Bar Sinaja9
  • Elias of Nisibis7
  • Elijah of Nisibis
  • Eliya bar Shinaya1
  • Eli bar Shinaya
  • Elijah Bar Shinaya, metropolitan of Nisibin2
  • Elijah of Nisibis
  • Eliya of Nisibis1

Office

  • metropolitan of Nisibin 2

Confession

  • Ch. of E. 1

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Dates

  • Birth: 9751
  • Death: 10461

Deprecation

: Dolabani's Syriac misspelled "Bar Shenaya" as "Brishinoyo": ܐܠܝܐ ܢܨܝܒܝܢܝܐ ܕܝܕܝܥ ܒܪܝܫܝܢܝܐ ܐܶܠܝܐ ܢܨܺܝܒܺܝܢܳܝܐ ܕܺܝܕܺܝܥ ܒܪܺܝܫܝܢܳܝܐ

Works Cited

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  • 1 H. G. B. Teule, "Eliya of Nisibis." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), pp: 143.Link to Syriaca.org Bibliographic Record.Link to Syriaca.org Bibliographic Record.Link to e-GEDSH entry
  • 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), pp: 405-406.Link to Syriaca.org Bibliographic Record.
  • 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: 357.Link to Syriaca.org Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), pp: 385.Link to Syriaca.org Bibliographic Record.
  • 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: 81.Link to Syriaca.org Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Josephus Simonius Assemani, Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana (Rome: Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719-1728)., pp: III:266.Link to Syriaca.org Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 7 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Elias of Nisibis.Link to Syriaca.org Bibliographic Record.
  • 8 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: 287-288.Link to Syriaca.org Bibliographic Record.Link to Archive.org Bibliographic record
  • 9 Ignatius Ortiz de Urbina, Patrologia Syriaca, Altera editio emendata et aucta (Romae: Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, 1965), section: 159.Link to Syriaca.org Bibliographic Record.
  • 10 J.-B. Chabot, Littérature syriaque, Bibliothèque catholique des sciences religieuses; Littératures chrétiennes de l'Orient (: Librairie Bloud & Gay, 1934), pp: 118.Link to Syriaca.org Bibliographic Record.
  • 11 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: 61.Link to Syriaca.org Bibliographic Record.
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James E. Walters et al., “Elijah of Nisibis — ܐܠܝܐ ܢܨܝܒܝܢܝܐ ” in A Guide to Syriac Authors last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/472.

Bibliography:

James E. Walters et al., “Elijah of Nisibis — ܐܠܝܐ ܢܨܝܒܝܢܝܐ .” In A Guide to Syriac Authors, edited by David A. Michelson and Nathan P. Gibson. Vol. 2 of The Syriac Biographical Dictionary, edited by David A. Michelson. Syriaca.org, 2016-. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/472.

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Entry Title: Elijah of Nisibis — ܐܠܝܐ ܢܨܝܒܝܢܝܐ

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, 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, Syriac name entry, Arabic name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • 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
  • Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts and addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH by Nathan P. Gibson

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