Anonymous 601 — Author of the Macarian Homilies Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The National Endowment for the Humanities The International Balzan Prize Foundation Nathan P. Gibson 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 Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal http://syriaca.org/person/601/tei

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2017-04-24+02:00 The Syriac Biographical Dictionary Nathan P. Gibson David A. Michelson Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent Daniel L. Schwartz William L. Potter Daniel L. Schwartz http://syriaca.org/persons A Guide to Syriac Authors Nathan P. Gibson David A. Michelson II http://syriaca.org/authors

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Significant updates to syriacaAll and syriacaPersons schemas have required updates to data and fixing of errors in the data. The most significant updates were to the relation, status, and seriesStmt elements and to the @ana att on person and personGrp. Cleaned up record as part of revision to schema (see github issue https://github.com/srophe/srophe-app-data/issues/1060. Major updates to data model in conjunction with schema work requiring some updates to data as well. CHANGED: Implemented July 2020 batch changes, see https://github.com/srophe/srophe-app-data/issues/878. CREATED: person Anonymous 601 Author of the Macarian Homilies Macarius-Symeon http://syriaca.org/person/601 http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/SRP|person_601 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). 4th century. Author Marcus Plested The Macarian Legacy: The Place of Macarius-Symeon in the Eastern Christian Tradition C.A. Stewart Macarian Homilies 253-254 Wadid el Macari La balance du coeur: Un substrat égyptien aux homélies macariennes This anonymous author is also identified as Pseudo-Macarius.