Denha — ܕܢܚܐ
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Denha; Denḥa; ܕܢܚܐ; ܕܸܢܚܵܐ; Denḥā; Denha; Denḥā
identifier: http://syriaca.org/person/444
identifier: http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/SRP|person_444
The author of a commentary on the Psalms and other works. Possibly a disciple of Ishoʿ bar Nun.
Assemani puts this Denha in the 8th century, but he must have rather been active in the 9th century if he is the person meant by John bar Zoʿbi, who (in a British Library manuscript catalogued by Wright) identified the Denha who authored a commentary on Aristotle's Analytics as a disciple of the Church of the East catholicos Ishoʿ bar Nun. Barsoum's identification of this Denha with an apparently West Syriac Denha who wrote a certain treatise against heretics is to be questioned.
floruit: 9th cent.?
state: Author
Denḥa The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage 161 118
ܟܬ̣ܵܒ̣ܵܐ ܕܡܸܬ̣ܩܪܸܐ ܡܪܓܢܝܬ̣ܐ ܕܥܲܠ ܫܪܵܪܵܐ ܕܲܟ̣ܪܸܣܛܝܵܢܘܼܬ̣ܵܐ 76
Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur mit Ausschluß der christlich-palästinensischen Texte 220
De scriptoribus Syris Nestorianis Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticana 175
A Short History of Syriac Literature 218-219
La littérature syriaque 387-388
Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum acquired since the year 1838 3 1176