Elias of Nisibis

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Elias of Nisibis (Syriac: Bar Šīnāyā, Arabic. Iliyyā ibn Šīnā or Illiyā al-Nasībī) (born February 11, 975 ; † July 18, 1046 in Nisibis ) was metropolitan of the East Syrian Church of the East in Nisibis and writer in Syrian and Arabic language.

Elias was born in the small town of Sinn (Šennā), north of Takrit, was an early monk in the nearby Mār Sim'ān monastery and ordained a priest in 994. From 1002 to 1007 he officiated as Bishop of Bayt Nūhadrā. On December 3, 1008, he received the cathedra of the Metropolitan of Nisibis and administered the office until his death at the age of 71. He was buried in the church of Mayyāfāriqin.

Elias wrote a chronicle in the Syriac language, which reached from "Creation" to the year 1018 and was divided into two parts. He could no longer write a planned church history .

literature

Entry in Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP) .

  • Elias di Nisibi (975-1046): Il Libro per scacciare le preoccupazione (Kitāb daf 'al-hamm), Tomo 1 °, traduzione et note a cura di Anna Pagnini. Zamorani Ed., Torino 2007, therein:
    • Paolo La Spisa: L'epoca di Elia di Nisibi (43–94),
    • Davide Righi: Elia di Nisibi: vita e opere (95-139).
  • Henri Sauvaire: "A Treatise on Weights and Measures by Eliya Archbishop of Nisibin." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 9 (1877), pp. 291-313.
  • Henri Sauvaire: "A Treatise on Weights and Measures by Eliya Archbishop of Nisibin. Supplement." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society vol. 12 (1880), pp. 1101-125. [French translation with commentaries on the treatise on weights by Ilyā al-Matrān (11th century); reprinted in: The Knowledge of Weights in the Islamic World. Texts and Studies. Collected and reprinted by Fuat Sezgin et al., Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Sciences, Frankfurt, Vol. 2, 2001].
  • Louis Horst: The metropolitan Elias von Nisibis book of the proof of the truth of the faith . Colmar 1886 (Kitāb al-Burhān, Ger.). Digitized
  • Stefan Weninger: "The 'Translator's Book' by Elias von Nisibis (10th / 11th century) in the context of Syrian and Arabic lexicography." In: The World in a List of Words , ed. Werner Hüllen. Lexicographica. Series Maior 58, Niemeyer, Tübingen 1994, pp. 55-66.
  • Ralf Lange Sunday:  Elias von Nisibis. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 27, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-393-2 , Sp. 369-374.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

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SURNAME Elias of Nisibis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bar Šīnāyā (Syriac); Iliyyā ibn Šīnā (Arabic); Illiyā al-Nasībī (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of the East Syrian Church of the East in Nisibis and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 975
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1046
Place of death Nisibis