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Dionysius bar Salibi (died 1171) was
Amid, in Upper Mesopotamia, from 1166 to 1171.[1] He was one of the most prominent and prolific writers within the Syriac Orthodox Church during the twelfth century.[2]
He was a native of
Of his writings probably the most important are his exhaustive commentaries on the text of the Old and New Testaments, in which he skillfully interwove and summarized the interpretations of previous writers such as
Moses Bar-Kepha and John of Dara, whom he mentions together in the preface to his commentary on St Matthew. Among his other main works are a treatise against heretics, containing inter alia a polemic against the Jews and the Muslims; liturgical treatises, epistles and homilies.[1]
His polemical works also include treatises on
Armenians.[7]
See also
References
- ^ a b c McLean 1911.
- ^ Bundy 1993, p. 244-252.
- ^ Fiey 1993, p. 232-233.
- ^ Fiey 1993, p. 229-230.
- ^ Fiey 1993, p. 162-163.
- ^ Mingana & Harris 1927, p. 110-117.
- ^ Mingana 1931, p. 489-558.
Sources
- McLean, Norman (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 446.
- Brock, Sebastian P. (1989). "Three Thousand Years of Aramaic Literature". ARAM Periodical. 1 (1): 11–23.
- Bundy, David (1993). "The Genesis Commentary of Dionysius Bar Salibi". Studia Patristica. 25: 244–252.
- Ebied, Rifaat Y.; Malki, Malatius M.; Wickham, Lionel R., eds. (2020). Dionysius Bar Ṣalībī's Treatise Against the Jews: Edited and Translated with Notes and Commentary. Leiden: Brill.
- Fiey, Jean Maurice (1993). Pour un Oriens Christianus Novus: Répertoire des diocèses syriaques orientaux et occidentaux. Beirut: Orient-Institut.
- Griffith, Sidney H. (1987). "Dionysius bar Salibi on the Muslims". IV Symposium Syriacum 1984. Roma: Pontificium Institutum Studiorum Orientalium. pp. 353–365.
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- Rabo, Gabriel (2015). "Dionysius Jacob Bar Ṣalibi's Confession of the Syrian Orthodox Faith" (PDF). Hekamtho: Syrian Orthodox Theological Journal. 1 (1): 20–39.
- Teule, Herman G. B. (2009). "Reflections on Identity: The Suryoye of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Bar Salibi, Bar Shakko, and Barhebraeus". Church History and Religious Culture. 89 (1–3): 179–189. .
External links
- Dionysius bar Salibi, In Apocalypsim, Actus et Epistulas Catholicas, trans. I. Sedlacek, Romae : Karolus de Luigi (1909).
- Dionysius bar Salibi: Commentary on the Apocalypse Archived 2007-08-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Dionysius Syrus (=Dionysius Bar Salibi): Commentary on Revelation (extracts). Hermathena, vol. 6 (1888) pp. 397–418, vol. 7 (1890) pp. 137–150; The Expositor 7th series, vol. 1 (1906), pp. 481–495.