John of Dalyatha - ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܕܠܝܬ̈ܗ

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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). 9

Notes

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.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 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.Link to Syriaca.org web application 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: 124.Link to Syriaca.org web application 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: 145.Link to Syriaca.org web application 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: 72.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Josephus Simonius Assemani, Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana (Rome: Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719-1728)., pp: III:103.Link to Syriaca.org web application 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: John of Dalyatha, John Saba.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 8 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 882, 1791.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 9 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 242.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 10 Īšō‘dnāḥ de al-Baṣra, Le livre de la chasteté (Rome, 1896)., : n° 127.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic recordLink to Archive.org Bibliographic record
  • 11 Ignatius Ephraem Rahmani, Studia Syriaca: seu collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis (In Monte Libano: In Seminario Scharfensi, 1904)., : I, 33-34.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 12 Paul Peeters and Société de Bollandistes, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis (1910)., : 510.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Archive.org Bibliographic recordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 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.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 14 Robert Beulay, L'enseignement spirituel de Jean de Dalyatha : mystique syro-oriental du VIIIe siècle (Paris: Beauchesne, 1990)., : (Paris, 1990).Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 15 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., : I, 1122-23.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 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.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Archive.org Bibliographic record
  • 17 Ignatius Ortiz de Urbina, Patrologia Syriaca, Altera editio emendata et aucta (Romae: Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, 1965), section: 106.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 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.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 19 J.-B. Chabot, Littérature syriaque, Bibliothèque catholique des sciences religieuses; Littératures chrétiennes de l'Orient (: Librairie Bloud & Gay, 1934), pp: 106.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 20 William Wright, A Short History of Syriac Literature (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1894), pp: 109-10.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Archive.org Bibliographic record
  • 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.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “John of Dalyatha — ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܕܠܝܬ̈ܗ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/826.

Bibliography:

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.

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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

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