Ephrem Mtsire
Ephrem Mtsire or Ephraim the Lesser (Georgian: ეფრემ მცირე) (died c. 1101/3) was a Georgian monk at Antioch, theologian and translator of patristic literature from Greek.
Information as to Ephrem’s life is scarce. Early in life he received a thorough Hellenic education presumably in
Daphne, outside Antioch.[1]
Ephrem’s
lexica familiar to Georgian readers. Some of his notable translations are the works by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Basil of Caesarea, Ephrem the Syrian, and John of Damascus.[2][3] Ephrem’s original work "Tale on the Reason for the Conversion of the Georgians" (უწყებაჲ მიზეზსა ქართველთა მოქცევისასა; uts’qebay mizezsa k’art’velt’a mok’tsevisasa) is yet another manifesto in defense of autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church
which was subject of a dispute between the Georgian and Antiochian churchmen in the 11th century.
References
- ^ "The Antiochian" (PDF). A Center for Antiochian Orthodox Christian Studies and Research. 4. 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ Fedwick, Paul Jonathan (ed., 1981). Basil of Caesarea: Christian, Humanist, Ascetic. A Sixteen-Hundredth Anniversary Symposium, p. 499. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
- ISBN 90-6831-868-3.
External links
- (in Georgian) ღირსი ეფრემ მცირე, ფილოსოფოსი (+1101)[permanent dead link]. Orthodoxy.ge