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Alexius, the Man of God - ܓܒܪܐ ܕܐܠܗܐ

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“This general title is given to the anonymous saintly protagonist of a narrative set in Edessa in the 5th cent. The core original story is found in 5 mss. In this account, the Man of God is the son of rich senatorial parents, living either in Rome or Constantinople. ” 1

Names

  • ܓܒܪܐ ܕܐܠܗܐ5
  • Alexius, the Man of God
  • ܐܠܟܣܝܘܣ ܪܘܡܝܐ (ܓܒܪܐ ܕܐܠܗܐ)4
  • ܐܰܠܟܣܝܘܣ ܪܘܡܳܝܐ (ܓܰܒܪܐ ܕܰܐܠܗܳܐ)4
  • الكسيوس الروماني (رجل الله)3
  • Alexis5
  • Alexius1
  • Gabra d-ʾAlāhā
  • gaḇrā d-ʾAlāhā5
  • Risha
  • St Alexis7
  • Alexius the Roman (the Man of God)2
  • Alexius, the Man of God2
  • Alexius, the Man of God2
  • Man of God of Edessa1

Floruit

5th cent.

Notes

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Works Cited

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  • 1 R. DoranMan of God of EdessaThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritagep: 260., p: 260.
  • 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), p: 173.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 150.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 172.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 890, 1125.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 366.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 7 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: St Alexis.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 8 Stewards of the Poor: The Man of God, Rabbula, and Hiba in Fifth-Century Edessa

How to Cite This Entry

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Alexius, the Man of God — ܓܒܪܐ ܕܐܠܗܐ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/607.

Bibliography:

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Alexius, the Man of God — ܓܒܪܐ ܕܐܠܗܐ .”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/607.

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Entry Title: Alexius, the Man of God — ܓܒܪܐ ܕܐܠܗܐ

Additional Credit:

  • 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, 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
  • Editing, Syriac name entry, Arabic name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • 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 Ugo Zanetti
  • Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne

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