Theodore bar Konai
Theodore Bar Konai (Syriac: ܬܐܕܘܪܘܣ ܒܪ ܟܘܢܝ) was a distinguished Syriac exegete and apologist of the Church of the East who seems to have flourished at the end of the eighth century. His most famous work was a book of scholia on the Old and New Testaments.
Life and works
Bar Konai appears to have lived during the reign of
Theodore was the author of the Scholion (Kṯāḇā d-ʾeskoliyon), a set of scholia on both the Old and New Testaments (edited between 1908 and 1912 by the celebrated scholar
Theodore, c. 792 in the Book of the Scholion, mentions the Mandaean
Theodore was also the author of an ecclesiastical history, a treatise against Monophysitism, a treatise against the Arianism, a colloquy between a pagan and a Christian, and a treatise on heresies.[5] His Church History contains some interesting details of the lives of the Patriarchs of the Church of the East.[3] He is the latest author to mention Gilgamesh before his rediscovery in the 19th century.[6] He lists him twice in somewhat garbled forms, as tenth and twelfth in a list of twelve kings who reigned between Peleg and Abraham.[7]
Notes
- ^ Assemani, BO, ii. 440 and iii. 1, 198, Wright, Syriac Literature, 222
- ^ Chabot, Syriac Language and Literature; Baum and Winkler, Church of the East, 63
- ^ a b Baum and Winkler, Church of the East, 63
- ^ ISBN 978-90-04-33943-9.
- ^ Chabot, Syriac Language and Literature
- ^ Jean Bottéro, L'Epopée de Gilgamesh, Le grand homme qui ne voulait pas mourir (L'aube des Peuples, Gallimard, 1992).
- ^ Andrew R. George, The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts, Vol. 1 (Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 61.
References
- Assemani, J. S., Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana (4 vols, Rome, 1719–28)
- Chabot, J. B., 'Syriac Language and Literature', Catholic Encyclopedia (New York, 1912)
- ISBN 9781134430192.
- Wright, W., A Short History of Syriac Literature (London, 1894)