Dadisho Qatraya

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Dadisho Qatraya

Classical Syriac: ܕܕܝܫܘܥ ܩܛܪܝܐ;[2] late 7th century) was a Nestorian monk and author of ascetic literature in Syriac
. His works were widely read, from Ethiopia to Central Asia.

Life

Dadisho flourished in the late 7th century.

Addai Scher, however, demonstrated that there were two distinct individuals.[6]

Works

He wrote extensively in Syriac.[7] All of his writings are concerned with shelya (stillness).[8] Among his surviving works are:

  • Treatise on Solitude, also called the Retreat of the Seven Weeks[9] or the Seven Weeks of Solitude,[10] which describes how a monk should retreat into complete solitude and prayer for seven weeks at a time[4]
  • Letter to Mar Abkosh on Hesychia, also called On Stillness (i.e., hesychia)[8]
  • Commentary on Abba Isaiah, which is a commentary on the Syriac version of the Asceticon of
    Isaiah of Scetis[4][10] and describes shelya as the condition the soul must meet to reach God.[8] All surviving manuscripts break off after the fifteenth discourse of Isaiah (out of twenty-six), but there are quotations from the rest of the work in a fragmentary commentary on Isaiah that was apparently a reworking of Dadisho's.[9]
  • Commentary on the Paradise of the Fathers, which is a commentary on the Paradise of the Fathers of
    sayings of the Egyptian Fathers collected by Enanisho[8]

He also wrote a few short work on similar ascetic themes.

Oriental Orthodox.[12] Dadisho is the earliest writer to credit an Egyptian monk, Mar Awgin (a figure he may have invented), with introducing monasticism to Mesopotamia in the 4th century.[13]

Notes

  1. ^ With diacritics Dadīshōʿ Qaṭrāya or Dadīshōʿ Ḳaṭrāya.
  2. ^ "Dadishoʿ Qatraya". Syriaca.org. 2016-12-09. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  3. ^ Albert 2005: "second half of the 7th century"; Wilmshurst 2011, p. 495: "fl. 670"; Mingana 2012, p. 70: "died about 690".
  4. ^ a b c d e f Brock 2018.
  5. ^ Kozah 2019, p. 1.
  6. ^ Scher 1906.
  7. ^ For lists of editions of his works, see Brock 2018 and Kitchen 2018.
  8. ^ a b c d Kitchen 2018.
  9. ^ a b Sims-Williams 1993.
  10. ^ a b Albert 2005.
  11. ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha
    's 14th-century catalogue of Nestorian writers: "he wrote a commentary on the Paradise of the Occidentals; he elucidated Abba Isaiah; he wrote a book on the way of life, treatises on the sanctification of the cell, consolatory dirges; he also wrote letters and inquiries on stillness in the body and soul."
  12. ^ a b Sims-Williams 1994, p. 38.
  13. ^ Wilmshurst 2011, p. 174.

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