John of Dalyatha - ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܕܠܝܬ̈ܗ

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Commonly known as Yoḥannan Saba (‘Elder’). An E.-Syr. monk, author of a Syriac collection of mystical discourses, letters, and maxims (‘chapters of knowledge’).1

Names

  • ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܕܠܝܬ̈ܗ5, 6
  • John of Dalyatha
  • ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܕ̈ܠܝܬܐ8
  • ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܕܠܝ̈ܬܗ4
  • ܝܘܽܚܰܢܢ ܕܕܰܠܝܳ̈ܬܶܗ4
  • ܝܘܿܚܲܢܵܢ ܕܕܵܠܝܵܬܹ̈ܗ5
  • يوحنا الدلياثي3
  • Ioannes e Daljata17
  • Jean de Dalyatha8
  • JEAN DE DALYĀṮA9
  • John Saba7
  • John of Dalyata
  • John of Dalyatha
  • Saba the Elder
  • Yōḥanān d-Dālyāṯā8
  • Yuḥanān d-Dālāyāthā
  • John Dalyatha2
  • John of Dalyatha7
  • Yoḥannan of Dalyatha1

Floruit

8th cent.

Event

The saint is venerated on (None from BHO). 9

Notes

Status: draft  Is this record complete?

Works Cited

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  • 1 B. CollessYoḥannan of DalyathaThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritagep: 441-442., p: 441-442.
  • 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: 140.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: 124.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: 145.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha, Ktābā d-metqre margānitā d-ʿal šrārā da-kresṭyānutā, 2nd ed. (Mosul: Mṭabbaʿtā ātoraytā d-ʿēdtā ʿattiqtā d-madnḥā, 1924), p: 72.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Josephus Simonius Assemani, Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana (Rome: Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719-1728)., vol: III, p: 103.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat 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: John of Dalyatha, John Saba.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 8 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 882, 1791.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 9 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 242.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 10 Le livre de la chastetéentry: n° 126., entry: n° 126.
  • 11 RahmaniStudia syriacavol: I, p: 33-34., vol: I, p: 33-34.
  • 12 Paul Peeters and Société de Bollandistes, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis (1910)., entry: 510.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Archive.org Bibliographic recordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 13 R. Beulay"Précisions touchant l'identité et la biographie de Jean Saba de Dalyatha"Parole d'Orientp: 87-116., p: 87-116.
  • 14 R. BeulayL 'enseignement spirituel de Jean de Dalyatha
  • 15 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., vol: I, p: 1122-23.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 16 Anton Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur mit Ausschluß der christlich-palästinensischen Texte (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Webers Verlag Dr. jur. Albert Ahn, 1922), p: 225-226.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Archive.org Bibliographic record
  • 17 Ignatius Ortiz de Urbina, Patrologia Syriaca, Altera editio emendata et aucta (Romae: Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, 1965), section: 106.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 18 De scriptoribus Syris orthodoxisBibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticanap: 433-44., p: 433-44.
  • 19 J.-B. Chabot, Littérature syriaque, Bibliothèque catholique des sciences religieuses; Littératures chrétiennes de l'Orient (: Librairie Bloud & Gay, 1934), p: 106.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 20 William Wright, A Short History of Syriac Literature (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1894), p: 109-10.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Archive.org Bibliographic record
  • 21 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), p: 51-52.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “John of Dalyatha — ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܕܠܝܬ̈ܗ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/826.

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “John of Dalyatha — ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܕܠܝܬ̈ܗ .”, 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/826.

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Entry Title: John of Dalyatha — ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܕܠܝܬ̈ܗ

Additional Credit:

  • 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 Ugo Zanetti
  • Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne

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