Philoxenus of Mabbug
Philoxenus of Mabbug (Syriac: ܐܟܣܢܝܐ ܡܒܘܓܝܐ, Aksenāyâ Mabûḡāyâ) (died 523), also known as Xenaias and Philoxenus of Hierapolis, was one of the most notable Syriac prose writers during the Byzantine period and a vehement champion of Miaphysitism.
Early life
He was born, probably in the third quarter of the 5th century, at
Background
The years which followed the Council of Chalcedon (451) were a stormy period in the Syriac Church. Philoxenus soon attracted notice by his strenuous advocacy of Miaphysitism.
When Calandio, the
Syriac Bible
Later he devoted himself to the revision of the
With the support of
Writings
Apart from his redoubtable powers as a controversialist, Philoxenus is remembered as a scholar, an elegant writer, and an exponent of practical Christianity. Of the chief monument of his scholarship – the Philoxenian version of the Bible – only the
There are also extant portions of commentaries on the Gospels from his pen. Of the excellence of his style and of his practical religious zeal we are able to judge from the thirteen homilies on the Christian life and character which have been edited and translated by
Notes
- ^ Wigram, William Ainger (1910) An introduction to the history of the Assyrian Church or the church of the Sassanid Persian Empire, 100-640 A.D., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, UK.
- Barhebraeus, Chron. eccl. i. 183
- ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Philoxenus of Mabbōg". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Further reading
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- Meyendorff, John (1989). Imperial unity and Christian divisions: The Church 450-680 A.D. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press.
- Michelson, David A., "The Practical Christology of Philoxenos of Mabbug", Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Walters, James E., "The Philoxenian Gospels as Reconstructed from the Writings of Philoxenos of Mabbug", Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 13.2 (Summer 2010).
