Paul from Tella

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Paul von Tella ( Syriac ܦܘܠܘܣ ܕܬܠܐ ; died after 617) was a Syrian Orthodox bishop of Tella .

He created a Syriac translation of Origen's Hexapla around 615/617 . This translation is still important today for the textual criticism of the Bible.

literature

  • Anton Baumstark : History of Syrian literature with the exclusion of Christian-Palestinian texts . A. Markus and E. Weber, Bonn 1922 [Unchanged photomechanical reprint: de Gruyter, Berlin 1968], pp. 186–188 ( online ).
  • Lucas Van Rompay: Pawlos of Tella . In: Sebastian P. Brock, Aaron M. Butts, George A. Kiraz, Lucas Van Rompay (Eds.): The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage . Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011, pp. 325-326.

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