Joseph Kassab (Aleppo)

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Jūzīf Qassāb ( Arabic جوزيف قصّاب, DMG Ǧūzīf Qaṣṣāb ; * in Aleppo ), mostly English Joseph Kassab transcribed, is a Syrian pastor of the National Evangelical Church in Syria and Lebanon and since 2017 President of the Supreme Council of the Evangelical Church in Syria and Lebanon.

Life

Joseph Qassab was born in Aleppo , where he began studying applied chemistry at Aleppo University in 1979 and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1984. In 1985 he went to Beirut ( Lebanon ), where he remained until the end in 1988 at the Theological School Near Eastern theology studied, then the Presbyterian Theological Seminary Princeton ( USA continue to study) 1988-1990 Theology and complete a master of practical theology. In 1990 he went with his wife Najla Kassab (Nadschla Qassab), who had also studied at Princeton, to Beirut, where he became director of the department for Christian education. In May 1992 he was also ordained as Protestant pastor of the National Evangelical Church in Syria and Lebanon .

In 2004, Qassab was elected General Secretary of the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon and remained in this office until 2008. He was re-elected in 2015. On February 1, 2019, he was also elected to succeed Salim Sahiouny as President of the Supreme Council of the Evangelical Church in Syria and Lebanon, with Samuel Hanna confirmed as Vice President.

Private

Joseph Kassab is married to Najla Kassab , who has been pastor since March 2017 and President of the World Fellowship of Reformed Churches (WCRC) since July 2017 . You live in Beirut and have three children - two daughters and a son.

Note on name (pronunciation)

The variant of "Joseph" used in the name of Joseph Kassab ( Arabic جوزيف, DMG Ǧūzīf ) is pronounced similarly to English , i.e. differently than the much more common traditional variant ( Arabic يوسف, DMG Yūsif ), which is also used in the Bible translations (here Ketab el-Hayat ,كتاب الحياة, “The book of life”) for Josef Ben Jakob ( Gen 37, ff  NAV ) and Joseph of Nazareth ( Mt 1.15-25  NAV , Mt 13.55  NAV , Joh 1.45  NAV , 6.42 NAV , Lk 3.23  NAV and Lk 4.22  NAV ) and whose Arabic name bearers are usually transcribed with Yusuf or Youssef .

The name Qassab (قصاب, DMG Qaṣṣāb , pronunciation QAF as voiceless uvular plosive [⁠ q ⁠] and SAD emphatically means) translates to " butcher ", that has, might otherwise suggest as the defective transcription "Kassab" nothing to do with the Syrian village of Kassab (كسب, DMG Kasab ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lunch and Learn with Rev. Joseph Kassah [sic .] Independent Presbyterian Church USA, September 18, 2017.
  2. ↑ Linkedin: Joseph Kassab, President at Supreme Council of Evangelical Community in Syria and Lebanon .
  3. ^ Suffering Gave Us Purpose. Reformed Church in Hungary, October 19, 2018.
  4. ^ Rev. Kassab, unanimously elected as Head of the Supreme Council. National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon, February 1, 2019.
  5. ^ Anna Siggelkow: Najla Kassab new president of the Reformed World Community. Ref.ch (The Reformed Portal), July 7, 2017.
  6. ↑ Hala Homsi (هالة حمصي): الواعظة نجلا قصاب تُرسَم قسيسة ... زوجة قس وأمّ ، ورسالتها "تثقيف المرأة" [The preacher Najla Kassab, wife of a priest and mother, and her message is "Education for women, March 20, 2017" Al-Nahar.
  7. ↑ Hans Wehr: Arabic dictionary for the written language of the present . Wiesbaden 1998, entry قصاب (p. 1029) .
personal data
SURNAME Kassab, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Qassab, Juzif; Qaṣṣāb, Ǧūzīf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian pastor and general secretary of the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon
DATE OF BIRTH before 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Aleppo