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Aphrahat (c. 280–c. 345; Syriac: ܐܦܪܗܛ, Ap̄rahaṭ,Persian: فرهاد, Arabic: أفراهاط الحكيم, Ancient Greek: Ἀφραάτης, and Latin Aphraates), venerated as Saint Aphrahat the Persian, was a third-century Syriac Christian author of Iranian descent from the Sasanian Empire, who composed a series of twenty-three expositions or homilies on points of Christian doctrine ...
Aphrahat (Greek: Ἀφραάτης; Latin: Aphraates) (c. 270 – c. 345 C.E.) was an Assyrian author of the fourth century from Persia, who composed a series of twenty-three expositions or homilies on points of Christian doctrine and practice. He was born in Persia around 270, but all his known works, the Demonstrations, come from later in his ...
Aphrahat. Select Demonstrations — Aphrahat. Demonstration I. -- Of Faith. 1. I have received thy letter, my beloved, and when I read it, it greatly gladdened me that thou hast turned thy thoughts to these investigations. For this thing that thou hast asked of me shall be freely granted, [648] for freely it was received.
In many of the Demonstrations, Aphrahat takes issue with positions he attributes to Jews, and this Demonstration is no different. Though it is not explicitly titled Against the Jews , as other pieces attributed to him are, this Demonstration is written as advice to an imagined Christian friend who seeks to answer several objections supposedly raised by Jews about how Christians speak of Jesus.
Barhebræus (Chron. Eccles., Part II, § 10) informs us that Pharhad, or Aphraates, flourished in the time of Papas I, the Catholicus who died in A.D. 334. This is in accord with the data found in our author's writings which place the period of his literary activity between A.D. 337 and 345. The writings of Aphraates consist of twenty-three ...
Recognizing the fact that Aphrahat did not discuss his hermeneutical principles, J. W. Childers points out that behind his hermeneutics lies a deep epistemological assumption creating profound effect on his use of Scripture J. W. Childers, “Disciple of Scripture: Character and Exegesis in Aphrahat” in Exegesis and Hermeneutics in the Churches of the East, edited by Vahan S. Hovhanessian ...
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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 belong to 344, and 23 to August 345 (1–22 provide ...
