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Book/Printed Material Selections from the Book of the Holy Hierotheos with Commentary.

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Title

  • Selections from the Book of the Holy Hierotheos with Commentary.

Summary

  • This manuscript contains commentary on the Ktābā d-Irotē'os (Book of the holy Hierotheos), an early sixth-century theological epic on the hidden mysteries of the Divine, which is attributed to Stephen Bar Sudayli. The commentary is by Gregory Bar 'Ebraya (also seen as Bar Hebraeus, 1226--86), who was a Syriac Orthodox bishop and a Syrian mystic. Both Bar Sudayli and his book were liable to suspicion in the Orthodox Church. This was because of the work's associations with Origenism and with Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (both linked to attempts to reconcile Platonism and the Scriptures, beliefs later seen as heretical) and with Evagrius of Pontus, an early church father of great rhetorical gifts who became a monk and ascetic. The book retained its popularity, however, and later commentaries such as this one seemed to underline its closeness to rather than distance from Orthodox thinking. In this manuscript, which is undated but probably was copied as late as the 20th century, section numbers align the text and commentary.

Names

  • Bar Hebraeus, 1226-1286 Author.
  • Stephen bar-Ṣūdhailē, circa 500-circa 550 Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1900 to 1999]

Headings

  • -  Turkey
  • -  500 to 1286

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 106 pages ; 22 x 16 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Syriac-Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo.
  • -  Content in 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

  • 2021667695

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Bar Hebraeus, Author, and Circa 500-Circa 550 Author Stephen Bar-Ṣūdhailē. Selections from the Book of the Holy Hierotheos with Commentary. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1999, 1900] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667695/.

APA citation style:

Bar Hebraeus, A. & Stephen Bar-Ṣūdhailē, C. 5. 5. A. (1900) Selections from the Book of the Holy Hierotheos with Commentary. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1999] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667695/.

MLA citation style:

Bar Hebraeus, Author, and Circa 500-Circa 550 Author Stephen Bar-Ṣūdhailē. Selections from the Book of the Holy Hierotheos with Commentary. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1999, 1900] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667695/>.