Simeon bar Sabbaʿe - ܫܡܥܘܢ ܒܪ ܨܒܥ̈ܐ
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“Bp. of Seleucia-Ctesiphon and martyr. Shemʿon was probably the immediate successor of Papa bar ʿAggai (d. between 327 and 335), but nothing is known about his tenure as bp. prior to his arrest.” 1
Names
- ܫܡܥܘܢ ܒܪ ܨܒܥ̈ܐ4, 6, 7
- Simeon bar Sabbaʿe
- ܫܶܡܥܘܢ ܒܰܪ ܨܰܒܳܥ̈ܐ4
- ܫܸܡܥܘܿܢ ܒܲܪ ܨܲܒܵܥܹ̈ܐ5
- شمعون برصبَّاعي3
- Šemʾōn Bar Sabāʾē8
- Simeon bar Sabba'e
- Simeon bar Sabbaʿe
- SIMÉON BAR SABBĀ'É9
- Symeon bar Sabba'e
- Syméon bar Sabbaé8
- Syméon bar Sabba‘é8
- Patriarch Šemʿôn bar Ṣabbàʿē21
- Shemʿon bar Ṣabbaʿe1
- Simeon bar Sabbaʿe7
- Simon bar Ṣabbaʿe
- Simon Bar Ṣabba‛i2
Sex
male9
Death
341 or 3441
Descriptions
In hagiography: Simeon bar Sabbaʿe is commemorated as bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon and one of the earliest and most famous of the Persian Martyrs. He was from Susa and was the archdeacon of Catholicos Papa bar ʿAggai whom he succeeded in 329. He was imprisoned at Karka d-Ledan and was decapitated.
Attestations
Simeon bar Sabbaʿe is commemorated in Simeon bar Sabbaʿe (text) [http://syriaca.org/work/1656] .
8Simeon bar Sabbaʿe is commemorated in Simeon Bar Sabbaʿe (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/264] .
8Simeon bar Sabbaʿe is commemorated in Simeon Bar Sabbaʿe (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/1232] .
8Simeon bar Sabbaʿe is commemorated in Simeon Bar Sabbaʿe and his Companions (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/1390] .
8Simeon bar Sabbaʿe is commemorated in Simeon Bar Sabbaʿe (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/263] .
8Notes
“Bp. of Seleucia-Ctesiphon and martyr. Shemʿon was probably the immediate successor of Papa bar ʿAggai (d. between 327 and 335), but nothing is known about his tenure as bp. prior to his arrest.” 1
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Works Cited
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- 1 L. Van Rompay, "Shemʿon bar Ṣabbaʿe." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), pp: 373-374.
- 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), entry: 7, pp: 228.
- 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: 194.
- 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), pp: 217.
- 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: 69.
- 6 Josephus Simonius Assemani, Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana (Rome: Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719-1728)., pp: III:51.
- 7 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Simeon bar Sabbae.
- 8 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 1583, 43, 1074, 1258, 42.
- 9 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 421.
- 10 Michael Kmosko, "ܡܳܪܝ ܫܶܡܥܘܽܢ ܒܰܪ ܨܰܒܳܥ̈ܶܐ." in R. Graffin et al. (eds.), ܡܰܠܦܳܢܘܽܬܳܐ ܕܐܰܒܳܗ̈ܳܬܳܐ ܣܘܽܪ̈ܝܳܝܶܐ vol. 2.1: Ab initiis usque ad annum 350 (1907)., : 1.2, 661-1054.
- 11 Paul Bedjan (ed.), Acta martyrum et sanctorum (Parisiis; Lipsiae: Harrasssowitz, 1890)., : II, 123-30.
- 12 Paul Peeters and Société de Bollandistes, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis (1910)., : 1117-19 and 278.
- 13 Stefano Evodio Assemani, Acta Sanctorum Martyrum Orientalium et Occidentalium vol. 1 (Typis Josephi Collini, 1748)., : I, 10.
- 14 F. LaGrange, Actes Des Martyrs d'Orient (1852)., : 35-57.
- 15 Henri Leclercq, Les martyrs; recuiel de pièces sur les martyrs depuis les origines du
christianisme jusqu'au XXe siècle; (Paris: H. Oudin, 1902)., : III, 145-62.
- 16 Addai Scher, Kitāb ašhar šuhadā' al-mašriq (Vies des saints martyrs d'Orient (Mossoul, 1900)., : I, 193-234.
- 17 Jules Baudot, Léon Chaussin and Benedictines, Vies des saints et des bienheureux selon l'ordre du calendrier: avec
l'historique des fêtes (Paris: Librairie Letouzey et Ané, 1935)., : IV, 21 April, 521-27.
- 18 Paul Devos, "Sozomène et les Actes syriaques de s. Syméon bar Saba'e." Analecta Bollandiana Analecta Bollandiana vol. 84 (1966)., : 84 (1966) 443-56.
- 19 G Wiessner, Zur Märtyrerüberlieferung aus des Christenverfolgung Schapurs (Göttingen, 1967)., : 40-94.
- 20 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961-1970)., : XI, 1097-1100.
- 21 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: 30.
- 22 Rubens Duval, La littérature syriaque, Troisième Edition , Anciennes littératures chrétiennes, vol. 2; Bibliothèque de l'enseignement de l'histoire ecclésiastique (Paris: Librairie Victor Lecoffre, 1907), pp: 123.
- 23 J.S. Assemani, De scriptoribus Syris orthodoxis, Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticana vol. 1 (Rome: Typis Sacræ Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719), pp: 1-12.
- 24 William Wright, A Short History of Syriac Literature (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1894), pp: 30-31.
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- 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, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
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- 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