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'''Ishoʿdnaḥ''' ([[Syriac language|Syriac]]: <big>ܝܫܘܥܕܢܚ</big>; fl. 9th century) was a historian and hagiographer of the [[Church of the East]] who served as the [[Maishan (East Syriac ecclesiastical province)|metropolitan bishop of Mayshan]] at [[Baṣra]].{{sfn|Brock|2011}} |
'''Ishoʿdnaḥ''' ([[Syriac language|Syriac]]: <big>ܝܫܘܥܕܢܚ</big>; fl. 9th century) was a historian and hagiographer of the [[Church of the East]] who served as the [[Maishan (East Syriac ecclesiastical province)|metropolitan bishop of Mayshan]] at [[Baṣra]].{{sfn|Brock|2011}} |
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Ishoʿdnaḥ wrote in Syriac. According to [[ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha]], writing towards 1300, he wrote a three-volume [[ecclesiastical history]], a treatise on [[logic]], hymns, poems and [[consolatio]]ns, as well as "a treatise on chastity, in which he collected an account of all the saints."{{sfn|Badger|1852|p=375}} The last is one of only two works by Ishoʿdnaḥ known to have been preserved. The other is a poem about [[Mar Yawnan]], the founder of a monastery near [[al-Anbār]].{{sfn|Brock|2011}} |
Ishoʿdnaḥ wrote in Syriac. According to [[ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha]], writing towards 1300, he wrote a three-volume [[ecclesiastical history]], a treatise on [[logic]], hymns, poems and [[consolatio]]ns, as well as "a treatise on chastity, in which he collected an account of all the saints."{{sfn|Badger|1852|p=375}} The last is one of only two works by Ishoʿdnaḥ known to have been preserved. The other is a poem about [[Mar Yawnan]], the founder of a monastery near [[Anbar (town)|al-Anbār]].{{sfn|Brock|2011}} |
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The ''Ktābā d-nakputā'' ("Book of Chastity"), also known by its [[Latin]] title, ''Liber castitatis'', contains 140 brief biographical notices of ascetic saints, mostly the founders of monasteries in [[northern Mesopotamia]] in the late [[Sasanian Empire|Sasanian]] and [[Rashidun Caliphate|early Arab]] periods, between about 580 and 660.{{sfn|Brock|2011}}{{sfn|Nicholson|2018}}{{sfn|Wood|2013|pp=150–153}} The earliest is [[Mar Awgen]] of the 4th century, while the latest is from the mid-9th century.{{sfn|Brock|2011}} Ishoʿdnaḥ was writing around 860.{{sfn|Nicholson|2018}} The latest event he refers to dates to 849–850. Although several manuscript copies exist, all derive from a single late 19th-century copy. It is untitled in the manuscripts. Its conventional title is taken from ʿAbdishoʿ.{{sfn|Hoyland|1997|pp=211–213}} In the heading identifying Ishoʿdnaḥ as the author, the scribe notes that he "write[s] the stories in brief of all those fathers who founded convents in the kingdom of the Persians and Arabs", which may indicate either that the notices he was copying were brief or perhaps that he was abridging them.<ref>{{harvnb|Hoyland|1997|p=211}}. The edition in {{harvnb|Bedjan|1901|pp=437–517}}, is titled ''Liber fundatorum monasteriorum in regno Persarura et Arabum'' on the basis of this remark.</ref> The existing text also omits some [[Syriac Orthodox|Jacobite]] founders known from descriptions of the work to have been part of the original.{{sfn|Hoyland|1997|pp=211–213}} |
The ''Ktābā d-nakputā'' ("Book of Chastity"), also known by its [[Latin]] title, ''Liber castitatis'', contains 140 brief biographical notices of ascetic saints, mostly the founders of monasteries in [[northern Mesopotamia]] in the late [[Sasanian Empire|Sasanian]] and [[Rashidun Caliphate|early Arab]] periods, between about 580 and 660.{{sfn|Brock|2011}}{{sfn|Nicholson|2018}}{{sfn|Wood|2013|pp=150–153}} The earliest is [[Mar Awgen]] of the 4th century, while the latest is from the mid-9th century.{{sfn|Brock|2011}} Ishoʿdnaḥ was writing around 860.{{sfn|Nicholson|2018}} The latest event he refers to dates to 849–850. Although several manuscript copies exist, all derive from a single late 19th-century copy. It is untitled in the manuscripts. Its conventional title is taken from ʿAbdishoʿ.{{sfn|Hoyland|1997|pp=211–213}} In the heading identifying Ishoʿdnaḥ as the author, the scribe notes that he "write[s] the stories in brief of all those fathers who founded convents in the kingdom of the Persians and Arabs", which may indicate either that the notices he was copying were brief or perhaps that he was abridging them.<ref>{{harvnb|Hoyland|1997|p=211}}. The edition in {{harvnb|Bedjan|1901|pp=437–517}}, is titled ''Liber fundatorum monasteriorum in regno Persarura et Arabum'' on the basis of this remark.</ref> The existing text also omits some [[Syriac Orthodox|Jacobite]] founders known from descriptions of the work to have been part of the original.{{sfn|Hoyland|1997|pp=211–213}} |
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Ishoʿdnaḥ (Syriac: ܝܫܘܥܕܢܚ; fl. 9th century) was a historian and hagiographer of the Church of the East who served as the metropolitan bishop of Mayshan at Baṣra.[1]
Ishoʿdnaḥ wrote in Syriac. According to ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha, writing towards 1300, he wrote a three-volume ecclesiastical history, a treatise on logic, hymns, poems and consolations, as well as "a treatise on chastity, in which he collected an account of all the saints."[2] The last is one of only two works by Ishoʿdnaḥ known to have been preserved. The other is a poem about Mar Yawnan, the founder of a monastery near al-Anbār.[1]
The Ktābā d-nakputā ("Book of Chastity"), also known by its Latin title, Liber castitatis, contains 140 brief biographical notices of ascetic saints, mostly the founders of monasteries in northern Mesopotamia in the late Sasanian and early Arab periods, between about 580 and 660.[1][3][4] The earliest is Mar Awgen of the 4th century, while the latest is from the mid-9th century.[1] Ishoʿdnaḥ was writing around 860.[3] The latest event he refers to dates to 849–850. Although several manuscript copies exist, all derive from a single late 19th-century copy. It is untitled in the manuscripts. Its conventional title is taken from ʿAbdishoʿ.[5] In the heading identifying Ishoʿdnaḥ as the author, the scribe notes that he "write[s] the stories in brief of all those fathers who founded convents in the kingdom of the Persians and Arabs", which may indicate either that the notices he was copying were brief or perhaps that he was abridging them.[6] The existing text also omits some Jacobite founders known from descriptions of the work to have been part of the original.[5]
Ishoʿdnaḥ's lost ecclesiastical history was written around 850.[7] Elias of Nisibis cites it five times, but for no even later than 714.[5] The Jacobite historians Michael Rabo and Bar Hebraeus cite a certain Dnaḥ Ishoʿ the Nestorian for an event of 793, and this may be a garbled reference to Ishoʿdnaḥ.[5]
Pierre Nautin proposed that Ishoʿdnaḥ was the author of the anonymous Arabic Chronicle of Siirt.[1] Jean Maurice Fiey suggests, however, that they author of the Chronicle merely had access to some of the same sources as Ishoʿdnaḥ.[8]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Brock 2011.
- ^ Badger 1852, p. 375.
- ^ a b Nicholson 2018.
- ^ Wood 2013, pp. 150–153.
- ^ a b c d Hoyland 1997, pp. 211–213.
- ^ Hoyland 1997, p. 211. The edition in Bedjan 1901, pp. 437–517, is titled Liber fundatorum monasteriorum in regno Persarura et Arabum on the basis of this remark.
- ^ Wood 2013, p. 229.
- ^ Wood 2013, p. 160.
Bibliography
- Badger, G. P., ed. (1852). The Nestorians and Their Rituals. Vol. Vol. 2. London: Joseph Masters.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - Bedjan, Paul, ed. (1901). Liber Superiorum, seu Historia Monastica, auctore Thoma, episcopo Margensi. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz.
- Brock, Sebastian P. (2011). "Ishoʿdnaḥ". In Sebastian P. Brock; Aaron M. Butts; George A. Kiraz; Lucas Van Rompay (eds.). Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Gorgias Press; online edition by Beth Mardutho, 2018.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - Chabot, Jean-Baptiste (1896). "Le livre de la Chasteté composé par Jésusdenah, Évêque de Baçrah". Mélanges d’archéologie et d’histoire de l'École Française de Rome. 16: 1–79, 225–291.
- Fiey, Jean Maurice (1966). "Îchôʿdnah, métropolite de Basra, et son oeuvre". L'Orient Syrien. 11: 431–450.
- Fiey, Jean Maurice (1975–76). "Īšōʻdnāḥ et la Chronique de Séert" (PDF). Parole de l'Orient. 6–7: 447–459.
- Hoyland, Robert G. (1997). Seeing Islam As Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam. Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press.
- Nautin, Pierre (1974). "L'auteur de la Chronique de Séert: Išōʿdenaḥ de Baṣra". Revue de l'histoire des religions. 186: 113–126 (with 199 [1982]: 313–314).
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - Nicholson, O. P. (2018). "Liber Castitatis". In Nicholson, Oliver (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, Volume 2: J–Z. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 905–906. ISBN 978-0-19-881625-6.
- Wood, Philip (2013). The Chronicle of Seert: Christian Historical Imagination in Late Antique Iraq. Oxford: Oxford University Press.