Athanasius Yeshue Samuel
Athanasius Yeshue Samuel ( Arabic صموئيل ، أثناسيوس يشوع ،; * 1909 in the village of Hilwah near Nisibin , Ottoman Empire ; † 1995 in Lodi (New Jersey) ) was Archbishop ( Metropolitan ) of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch in Jerusalem from 1946 to 1949 and in the USA and Canada from 1957 to 1995. In 1947 he bought four of the first found Dead Sea Scrolls .
Life
In 1923 he entered the Syrian Orthodox Monastery of St. Mark in Jerusalem. There he took the monk's vows in 1927 and became a chaplain. In 1946 he was appointed Archbishop (Metropolitan) of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch for Palestine and Transjordan, based in Jerusalem.
Since many of his believers emigrated to the USA after the establishment of the State of Israel, he also went there in 1949. In 1952 he was appointed Patriarchal Vicar of the Syrian Orthodox Church in the USA and Canada. In 1957 he became the first Archbishop of the Syrian Orthodox Church in the United States and Canada.
In 1947 he bought the Isaiah scroll , the church rules , the Habakkuk commentary, and the Genesis apocryphon from an Arab trader for $ 250. He took these with him to the USA and sold them to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem through an intermediary in 1954 .
Fonts (selection)
- Treasure of Qumran. My Story of the Dead Sea Scrolls . 1966.
literature
- Athanasius Yeshue Samuel . In: The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity , 2001 ( excerpt ).
Web links
- Directory of the writings by and about Athanasius Yeshue Samuel on worldcat.org
- Detailed curriculum vitae at Suryoyo Online
- Archbishop Samuel, 87, Primate Of the Syrian Orthodox Church News of Archbishop Samuel's death in the New York Times
Remarks
- ↑ on this Edward M. Cook: Solving the Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls. New Light on the Bible . Zondervan, 1994, ISBN 978-0-310-38471-7 , pp. 13, 23.
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| SURNAME | Samuel, Athanasius Yeshue |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Samuel, Mar; صموئيل ، أثناسيوس يشوع ، (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Metropolitan of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch in Jerusalem, Archbishop of the Syrian Orthodox Church in the USA and Canada |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hilwah near Nisibin , Ottoman Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1995 |
| Place of death | Lodi, New Jersey |