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Book/Printed Material Book of Theology.

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Title

  • Book of Theology.

Summary

  • Shem'un al-Turani was born in 1670 near Tur Abdin in present-day Turkey. He studied in Tur Abdin and became a monk at the age of twenty. He was appointed maphrian-historically the prelate second to the patriarch in the hierarchy of the Syriac Orthodox Church-in 1710 and took the name Basileios. Maphrian Basileios Shem'un was martyred in 1740. He wrote in verse and prose, and his works are considered important both because he was one of the most-renowned Syriac writers, and because very little of the great body of Syriac literature from the Ottoman period has been published. His Kitāb al-te'ōlōġiyyā (Book of theology) is divided into 12 chapters, each of which is in ten sections. The book was written in Syriac and soon thereafter translated into Garshuni (this term, meaning Arabic written in Syriac script, rather than "Arabic" is specifically used in the manuscripts of the work). The translation is by Athanasius Aslan, bishop of Amid (present-day Diyarbakir, Turkey), and a student of Maphrian Basileios Shem'un. This copy is one of two very early manuscripts of the Garshuni version.

Names

  • Aslan, Athanasius Translator.
  • Basileios, Shemun, Maphrian, 1670-1740 Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1720.

Headings

  • -  Turkey
  • -  1720
  • -  Syrian Orthodox Church

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 232 pages ; 21.5 x 16 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Syriac-Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo.
  • -  Content in Arabic and Syriac.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • St. George Church (Urfa Collection)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667693

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Aslan, Athanasius Translator, and Shemun Basileios. Book of Theology. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1720] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667693/.

APA citation style:

Aslan, A. T. & Basileios, S. (1720) Book of Theology. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667693/.

MLA citation style:

Aslan, Athanasius Translator, and Shemun Basileios. Book of Theology. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1720] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667693/>.