Abdiso bar Brika

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Abdiso bar Brika (Ebedjesus; c Abdīšō c ) (* before 1291; † 1318 ) was Metropolitan of Nisibis and Armenia of the Assyrian Church of the East since 1291 at the latest .

He wrote commentaries on the Bible, pamphlets against heresies, and dogmatic and legal writings in Syrian . He also wrote texts in metrical form, including a catalog of writers, which is of fundamental importance for Syrian literary history.

literature

  • Anton Baumstark: History of Syrian Literature with the Exclusion of Christian Palestinian Texts . Bonn 1922 (reprint Berlin 1968), p. 323 ff.
  • Georg Graf: History of Christian Arabic Literature. 5 volumes, 1944-1949, volume 1, p. 165; Volume 2, p. 214 ff.
  • René Lavenant: Ebedjesus ( c Abdīšō c ) bar Berīkā . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 3 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, Sp. 423-424 .
  • Hubert Kaufhold, Abraham Eccellensis et le Catalog des livres de c Abdīšō c bar Brīkā . In: Orientalisme, science et controverse: Abraham Ecchellensis (1605–1664) . Sous la direction de Bernard Heyberger. Turnhout: Brepols 2010, 119-133.


personal data
SURNAME Brika, Abdiso bar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ebedjesus; Ébedjésu Bar Berika; Abdisho from Nisibis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Syrian writer and ancient oriental bishop in Armenia
DATE OF BIRTH before 1291
DATE OF DEATH 1318