Severus Sebokht — <foreign xml:lang="syr">ܣܐܘܝܪܐ ܣܐܒܘܟܬ</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 Kristian Heal 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, 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 Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts and addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH by Nathan P. Gibson Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal http://syriaca.org/person/99/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. 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'. Merged in Baumstark data Split names in authors into forename and surname. Move headword attribute from Gedesh to first English name. ADDED: Renumbered bibl xml:id attributes and source references to be sequential. ADDED: Abstracts, citation, additional names and confessions from GEDSH. ADDED: syriaca-computed-end for elements with date attributes CREATED: person Severus Sebokht Severos Sebokht Severus Sabukht ساويرا سابوخت ܣܐܘܝܪܐ ܣܐܒܘܟܬ ܣܶܐܘܝܪܶܐ ܣܰܐܒܘܟܬ Severus Sebokht Severus Sebokht Severus Sebokt http://syriaca.org/person/99 http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/SRP|person_99 http://viaf.org/viaf/47099010 http://www.csc.org.il/db/browse.aspx?db=SB&sL=S&sK=Severus Sebokht&sT=keywords Scholar, astronomer, philosopher, mathematician, Bp. of Qenneshre (city south of Aleppo); or Bp. of the Monastery of Qenneshre on the east bank of the Euphrates. Nisibis 666/7 Syrian Orthodox Author G. J. Reinink Severos Sebokht The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage 368 The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences 94 325 كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية 283 ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ 310 A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity Severus Sebokht Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur mit Ausschluß der christlich-palästinensischen Texte 246-247 Ortiz de Urbina, Patrologia Syriaca 126 Chabot, Littérature syriaque 82-83 Brock, A brief outline of Syriac literature 45