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Aphrahat, being a Persian subject, cannot have lived at Nisibis, which became Persian only by Emperor Jovian's treaty of 363. [ 2 ] Furthermore, Jacob of Nisibis, who attended the First Council of Nicaea , died in 338, and from the internal evidence of Aphrahat's works he must have witnessed the beginning of the persecution of Christians in the ...
Mar 28, 2008 · 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 belong to 344, and 23 to August 345 (1–22 provide an alphabetic acrostic).
- Sebastian Brock
- 2004
Thorough study of the Demonstrations makes identification with Jacob of Nisibis impossible. Aphrahat, being a Persian subject, cannot have lived at Nisibis, which became Persian only by Jovian's treaty of 363.
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.
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
May 24, 2011 · 5 References. About Aphrahat. 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.
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Jun 18, 2023 · A large portion of the Syriac works attributed to Ephrem of Nisibis survives in the form of collected poetic anthologies.
