Anonymous 601 - Author of the Macarian Homilies
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The identity of the author of the Macarian
Homelies has long been a source of debate. The author likely lived in the
fourth century and wrote in Greek. Historically, this author was often
conflated with either Macarius of Alexandria or Macarius the Great of
Egypt. In modern scholarship, this author is sometimes
refered to as Pseudo-Macarius or Macarius-Symeon (based on an Arabic
manuscript tradition).1, 2
Names
Floruit
4th century.
Notes
The identity of the author of the Macarian
Homelies has long been a source of debate. The author likely lived in the
fourth century and wrote in Greek. Historically, this author was often
conflated with either Macarius of Alexandria or Macarius the Great of
Egypt. In modern scholarship, this author is sometimes
refered to as Pseudo-Macarius or Macarius-Symeon (based on an Arabic
manuscript tradition).1, 2
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Works Cited
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- 1 Marcus Plested,The Macarian Legacy: The Place of Macarius-Symeon in the Eastern Christian Tradition, Oxford Theological Monographs (Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press, 2004)
- 2 C. A. Stewart,Macarian Homilies,inThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 253-254.
- 3 Wadid el Macari,La balance du coeur: Un substrat égyptien aux homélies macariennes (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2022), https://www.google.com/books?id=e_ViEAAAQBAJ
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- 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, document design, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
- Matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
- GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
- Editing, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Syriac name entry by Robert Aydin
- Arabic name entry by Jad Kaado
- 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