Abraham of Nathpar - ܐܒܪܗܡ ܢܬܦܪܝܐ
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“Monastic author.” 1 At various points in the tradition, the pe [ܦ] and the tau [ܬ] in the name, Naphtar, have been transposed. The original form is unclear.
Names
- ܐܒܪܗܡ ܢܬܦܪܝܐ6, 7
- Abraham of Nathpar1
- ܐܒܪܗܝܡ ܐܠܢܦܬܪܝ20
- ܐܒܪܗܡ ܢܦܬܪܝܐ8
- ܐܲܒܪܵܗܵܡ ܢܲܬܦܪܵܝܵܐ5
- Abraham de Nathpar15
- Abraham de Nephtar20
- Abraham de Nethpar8
- ABRAHAM DE NEṮPAR9
- Abrāhām Neptarāyā
- Abraham of Naphtar
- Abraham of Nathpar
- Abraham of Natpar7
- Abraham of Nethpar
- Abraham de Nathpar8
- ʾAḇrāhām Neptarāyā8
Sex
male9
Descriptions
In hagiography: Abraham of Naphtar was a monk and missionary from the region of Adiabene who wrote treatises on monasticism and treatises against heresy. He was commemorated at an eponymous monastery in the same region.
Attestation
Abraham of Naphtar is commemorated in Abraham of Naphtar (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/1168] .
8Notes
“Monastic author.” 1 At various points in the tradition, the pe [ܦ] and the tau [ܬ] in the name, Naphtar, have been transposed. The original form is unclear.
Status: underReview
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Works Cited
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- 1 J. W. Childers, "Abraham of Nathpar." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), entry: 16, pp: 9, : n° 43, : II, 80-83, : I, 37-39, BHO, 15, : OS 2 (1957), 337-50, : Scritti in onore di G. Furlani, Rome, 1957, RSO 32), 415-31, : 40 (2000), 439-60, Note:
This inspired in 800 the
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in the 11th century
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and in the 12th century Marī ibn Sulaymān
Sulayman (52 Arabic) who confused him with Abraham of Kashkar,
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one note, following some of his apophthegmata, published by the patriarch
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translation in French by
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Above all on the works
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also
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- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), pp: 139.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), pp: 124.
- 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), pp: 145.
- 5 ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha, Ktābā d-metqre margānitā d-ʿal šrārā da-kresṭyānutā, 2nd ed. (Mosul: Mṭabbaʿtā ātoraytā d-ʿēdtā ʿattiqtā d-madnḥā, 1924), pp: 77.
- 6 Josephus Simonius Assemani, Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana (Rome: Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719-1728)., pp: III:191.
- 7 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Abraham of Natpar.
- 8 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 334, 1008.
- 9 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 24.
- 10 Thomas of Marga, Liber superiorum seu Historia Monastica (Paris and Leipzig: Dicta de Sèvres; Harrassowitz, 1901)., : II.17, Note:
His life, which is lost today, was written in the seventh century by the monk
Sawrīshō' Rustam
.
- 11 Alfred Baudrillart et al., Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1912)., : I, col. 177-78, s.v. 44.Abraham de Natfar.
- 12 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum
orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., : I, 32-33.
- 13 Jean Maurice Fiey, Assyrie chrétienne contribution à l'étude de l'histoire et de la
géographie ecclésiastiques et monastiques du nord d'Iraq. (Beyrouth, 1965)., : I, 158-62, Note:
On his monastery
.
- 14 Anton Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur mit Ausschluß der christlich-palästinensischen Texte (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Webers Verlag Dr. jur. Albert Ahn, 1922), pp: 131-132.
- 15 Ignatius Ortiz de Urbina, Patrologia Syriaca, Altera editio emendata et aucta (Romae: Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, 1965), section: 74.
- 16 J.S. Assemani, De scriptoribus Syris orthodoxis, Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticana vol. 1 (Rome: Typis Sacræ Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719), pp: 463-64.
- 17 J.-B. Chabot, Littérature syriaque, Bibliothèque catholique des sciences religieuses; Littératures chrétiennes de l'Orient (: Librairie Bloud & Gay, 1934), pp: 57.
- 18 William Wright, A Short History of Syriac Literature (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1894), pp: 111-12.
- 19 Sebastian Paul Brock, A Brief Outline of Syriac Literature, 2nd ed., rev. and enlarged , Mōrān ʾEthʾō, vol. 9 (Kottayam: St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute, 2008), pp: 38.
- 20 André Binggeli et al. (eds.), E-ktobe : manuscrits syriaques, Catalogue de manuscrits (Paris: Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique / Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes, 2017)
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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Abraham of Nathpar — ܐܒܪܗܡ ܢܬܦܪܝܐ .”, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, David A. Michelson and Nathan P. Gibson. Vol. 1 of The Syriac Biographical Dictionary, edited by David A. Michelson. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/321.About this Entry
Entry Title: Abraham of Nathpar — ܐܒܪܗܡ ܢܬܦܪܝܐ
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- These names were received as a dataset from E-Ktobe : manuscrits syriaques (http://syriac.msscatalog.org/). Née sur l’initiative d'André Binggeli (IRHT-CNRS), Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (Orient et Méditerranée-CNRS), Muriel Debié (EPHE) et Alain Desreumaux (Orient et Méditerranée-CNRS) dans le cadre du programme SYRAB de l'ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche), la base e-ktobe est actuellement placée sous la responsabilité scientifique d’André Binggeli et Emilie Villey (Orient et Méditerranée-CNRS). Liste des collaborateurs contribuant ou ayant contribué à l’alimentation de la base : Youssef Dergham (Bibliothèque du patriarcat syro-catholique de Charfet), Margherita Farina (CNRS, Paris), Simone I. M. Pratelli (U. de Constance), Flavia Ruani (U. de Gand) et Eleonora Serra (U. de Pise).
- Data from Macuch, Abuna, De Urbina, Duval, Assemani (vols. 1-2), Chabot, Wright, and Brock collected, verified, reconciled, and entered by Kristian Heal
- German data entry by Samer Khader
- Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
- Editing, document design, data architecture, encoding, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
- Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts, addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH, matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, data merging, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
- GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
- Editing, Syriac name entry, Arabic name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
- Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo
- Syriac name entry by Robert Aydin
- Normalization of GEDSH dates and entry matching with viaf.org records by Alex Vawter
- Editorial oversight for GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry, and proofreading by Christopher Johnson
- GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry and proofreading by the Syriac Research Group, University of Alabama
- Entries adapted from the work of Jean Maurice Fiey
- Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
- Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne