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Titles

• Pères (texte)1
• Fathers (text)1

Creators

• John of Ephesus — ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܐܦܣܘܣ 1 [author]

Reference Numbers

• URI: http://syriaca.org/work/792
• BHS: 582
• BHO: 870

Prologue

"Quand nous comprenons la parole de notre vivificateur et sauveur Jésus dans l’annonce qu’il a faite à ses saints: “Que votre lumière brille devant les hommes afin qu’ils voient vos bonnes oeuvres et qu’ils glorifient votre Père dans les cieux…"1 "ܟܕ ܒܡܠܬܗ ܕܡܚܝܢܢ ܘܦܪܘܩܢ ܝܫܘܥ: ܕܒܣܒܪܬܗ ܠܘܬ ܩܕ̈ܝܫܘܗܝ ܡܣܬܟܠܝܢܢ ܕܐܡܪ: ܕܗܟܢܐ ܠܡ ܢܢܗܪ ܢܘܗܪܟܘܢ ܩܕܡ ܒܢ̈ܝ ܐܢܫܐ: ܕܢܚܙܘܢ ܥܒ̈ܕܝܟܘܢ ܛܒ̈ܐ: ܘܢܫܒܚܘܢ ܠܐܒܘܟܘܢ ܕܒܫܡܝܐ..."1

Editions

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• E. W Brooks, trans., Lives of the Eastern Saints I, Patrologia Orientalis 17.1 (1923), https://archive.org/stream/patrologiaorient17pariuoft#page/n7/mode/2up, p: p. 1-4. 1
  • Note: Based on London, British Library Add. 14647
• Jan Pieter Nicolaas Land, Anecdota Syriaca II: Joannis Episcopi Ephesi Monophysitae Scripta Historica Quotquot Adhuc Inedita Supererant Syriace Edidit (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1868), p: P. 2-4. 1
  • Note: Based on Leiden, Rijksuniversiteit or. 2354

Manuscripts

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• London, British Library Add. 14647 , f. 1v-21
• Leiden, Rijksuniversiteit or. 2354 cod. 1638 1

Modern Translations

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• Latin: W. J. van Douwen and Jan Pieter Nicolaas Land, Joannis Episcopi Ephesi Commentarii de Beatis Orientalibus; et, Historiae Ecclesiasticae Fragmenta, Verhandelingen Der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeeling Letterkunde 18.2 (Amsterdam: Iohannem Müllerum, 1889), p: 1-3. 1
• English: E. W Brooks, trans., Lives of the Eastern Saints I, Patrologia Orientalis 17.1 (1923), https://archive.org/stream/patrologiaorient17pariuoft#page/n7/mode/2up, p: p. 1-4. 1

Secondary Literature

This is not a comprehensive list of secondary literature related to this work. Further citations may be available through The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Studies.

• Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 582.
• A. P. D’âkonov and А. П. Дьяконов, Ioann Efesskij i Ego Cerkovno-Istoričeskie Trudy (Saint-Pétersbourg, 1908), p: 360-400.
• Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern Saints, The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 18 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990).
• Peter Plank, Mimēsis Christu. Zur Interpretation Der 52. Heiligengeschichte Des Ioannes von Ephesos (507‒586), in Unser Ganzes Leben Christus Unserm Gott Überantworten: Studien Zur Ostkirchlichen Spiritualität, Fairy von Lilienfeld Zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. Peter Hauptmann, Kirche Im Osten: Monographienreihe 17 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982), 167–82, p: 167-182.