John of Dalyatha - ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܕܠܝܬ̈ܗ
http://syriaca.org/person/826
“Commonly known as Yoḥannan Saba (‘Elder’). An E.-Syr. monk, author of a Syriac
collection of mystical discourses, letters, and maxims (‘chapters of
knowledge’).” 1
Names
- ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܕܠܝܬ̈ܗ6, 7
- ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܕ̈ܠܝܬܐ8
- ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܕܠܝ̈ܬܗ4
- ܝܘܽܚܰܢܢ ܕܕܰܠܝܳ̈ܬܶܗ4
- ܝܘܿܚܲܢܵܢ ܕܕܵܠܝܵܬܹ̈ܗ5
- يوحنا الدلياثي3
- 8
- Ioannes e Daljata17
- Jean de Dalyatha8
- JEAN DE DALYĀṮA9
- John of Dalyata
- John of Dalyatha
- John Saba7
- Saba the Elder
- Yōḥanān d-Dālyāṯā8
- Yuḥanān d-Dālāyāthā
- John Dalyatha2
- John of Dalyatha
- John of Dalyatha7
- Yoḥannan of Dalyatha1
Sex
male9
Floruit
8th cent.1
Descriptions
In hagiography: John of Dalyatha was a famous spiritual author also called John Saba. He was a monk of the monastery of Mar Yozadaq in Qardu. His writings were condemned under the Synod of Timothy I, but they were rehabilitated by Isho bar Nun.
Event
The saint is venerated on (None from BHO).
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Attestations
John of Dalyatha is commemorated in John of Dalyatha (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/1058] .
8John of Dalyatha is commemorated in John of Dalyatha and John bar Penkaye (text) [http://syriaca.org/work/1841] .
8Notes
“Commonly known as Yoḥannan Saba (‘Elder’). An E.-Syr. monk, author of a Syriac
collection of mystical discourses, letters, and maxims (‘chapters of
knowledge’).” 1
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Works Cited
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- 1 B. Colless, "Yoḥannan of Dalyatha." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), pp: 441-442.
- 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: 140.
- 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: 124.
- 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), pp: 145.
- 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: 72.
- 6 Josephus Simonius Assemani, Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana (Rome: Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719-1728)., pp: III:103.
- 7 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: John of Dalyatha, John Saba.
- 8 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 882, 1791.
- 9 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 242.
- 10 Īšō‘dnāḥ de al-Baṣra, Le livre de la chasteté (Rome, 1896)., : n° 127.
- 11 Ignatius Ephraem Rahmani, Studia Syriaca: seu collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex
codicibus Syriacis (In Monte Libano: In Seminario Scharfensi, 1904)., : I, 33-34.
- 12 Paul Peeters and Société de Bollandistes, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis (1910)., : 510.
- 13 R. Beulay, "Précisions touchant l’identité et la biographie de
Jean Saba de Dalyatha." Parole de l'Orient vol. 8 (1977-1978)., : 87-116.
- 14 Robert Beulay, L'enseignement spirituel de Jean de Dalyatha : mystique syro-oriental
du VIIIe siècle (Paris: Beauchesne, 1990)., : (Paris, 1990).
- 15 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum
orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., : I, 1122-23.
- 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: 225-226.
- 17 Ignatius Ortiz de Urbina, Patrologia Syriaca, Altera editio emendata et aucta (Romae: Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, 1965), section: 106.
- 18 J.S. Assemani, De scriptoribus Syris orthodoxis, Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticana vol. 1 (Rome: Typis Sacræ Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719), pp: 433-44.
- 19 J.-B. Chabot, Littérature syriaque, Bibliothèque catholique des sciences religieuses; Littératures chrétiennes de l'Orient (: Librairie Bloud & Gay, 1934), pp: 106.
- 20 William Wright, A Short History of Syriac Literature (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1894), pp: 109-10.
- 21 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: 51-52.
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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “John of Dalyatha — ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܕܠܝܬ̈ܗ .”, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, David A. Michelson and Nathan P. Gibson. Vol. 1 of The Syriac Biographical Dictionary, edited by David A. Michelson. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/826.About this Entry
Entry Title: John of Dalyatha — ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܕܠܝܬ̈ܗ
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, Arabic 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