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Mar 28, 2008 · Aphrahat ‘the Persian Sage’ was also known at an early date under the name of Jacob, which soon led to confusion with Jacob, bishop of Nisibis, who died in 338. Aphrahat, however, was definitely writing within the Sasanian Empire, and furthermore his works are exactly dated, for Demonstrations 1–10 are given the date 337, while 11–22 ...
- Sebastian Brock
- 2004
Ephrem celebrated what he saw as the miraculous salvation of the city in a hymn that portrayed Nisibis as being like Noah's Ark, floating to safety on the flood. One important physical link to Ephrem's lifetime is the baptistery of Nisibis. The inscription tells that it was constructed under Bishop Vologeses in 359.
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His identity was unclear to later writers, and in the earliest manuscripts his name is given as 'Jacob' rather than 'Aphrahat'. This in turn gave rise to him being identified with Jacob, bishop of Nisibis; an impossible identification, since Jacob died in 338 AD. The confusion must be early, since Gennadius names him thus in his continuation of Jer...
The Demonstrationscover a wide range of topics. Those included in the partial English translation are signalled with [ET]. 1. On Faith [ET] 2. On Love [ET] 3. On Fasting 4. On Prayer [ET] 5. On Wars [ET] 6. On the Bnay Qyama (=Children of the Covenant) [ET] 7. On Penitents [ET] 8. On the Resurrection of the Dead [ET] 9. On Humility 10. On the Pasto...
Complete translations exist in French and German. Translations of selected demonstrations exist in English, and a complete translation has just appeared in Moran Etho. 1. The homilies of Aphraates the Persian sage. Edited from the Syriac manuscripts of the fifth and sixth centuries in the British Museum with an English translation by W. Wright. Lon...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. 2, vol. 13 (1898)-- English translations of 1, 5, 6, 8, 10, 17, 21, and 22.
Mar 4, 2020 · Since the river in Ephrem’s Nisibis, the Mygdonius, ran into the Euphrates downstream from the city, I can imagine Josephus thinking of it as a branch of the Euphrates.
- Paul S. Russell
Nisibis sat, and sits, on the southern edge of the high ground above the bend of the Mesopotamian plain. It stands as a fortress on the edge of a natural wall that is the mountain range, or range of high hills, that stretch across the northern edge of the center of the curve of the Fertile Crescent.
According to a manuscript of the British Museum dated A.D. 1364 (Orient, 1017) Aphraates was "Bishop of the monastery of Mar Mattai", on the eastern shore of the Tigris, near the modern Mosul in Mesopotamia. The ruins of this monastery, now called "Sheikh Matta", are still to be seen.
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Aphrahat, being a Persian subject, cannot have lived at Nisibis, which became Persian only by Jovian's treaty of 363.
