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'''Isho`dnah''' was an East Syriac writer who flourished ca. 860 AD.  He was metropolitan of Prat d-Maishan, modern Basra.<ref>Sebastian Brock, ''A brief outline of Syriac literature'', Moran Etho 9, (1997), p. 68 and p. 138.</ref>
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'''Isho`dnah''' or ''Isodenah'' was an East Syriac writer who flourished ca. 860 AD.  He was metropolitan of Prat d-Maishan, modern Basra.<ref>Sebastian Brock, ''A brief outline of Syriac literature'', Moran Etho 9, (1997), p. 68 and p. 138.</ref>
  
 
==Works==
 
==Works==
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The following works are known.
  
 
* ''Book of Chastity'' or ''History of the Founders of Monasteries in the realms of the Persians and the Arabs''.[[FT]]  This is a collection of 140 short notices concerning monastic figures, beginning with Mar Augen, supposedly in the 4th century, and continued down to the mid-9th century.
 
* ''Book of Chastity'' or ''History of the Founders of Monasteries in the realms of the Persians and the Arabs''.[[FT]]  This is a collection of 140 short notices concerning monastic figures, beginning with Mar Augen, supposedly in the 4th century, and continued down to the mid-9th century.
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* An ''Ecclesiastical History''.  This is lost, but cited by [[Elias of Nisibis]], writing in the early 11th century.  A comparison between the ''Book of Chastity'' and the [[Chronicle of Seert]] shows that the latter is dependent on the former.  Similarly the lost ''Ecclesiastical History'' can be shown to be a source when material taken from it by Elias of Nisibis is compared with the parallel passages in the [[Chronicle of Seert].<ref name=Howard-Johnston>James Howard-Johnston, ''Witnesses to a World Crisis: Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the seventh century'', Oxford (2010) [http://books.google.com/books?id=GQup_FGN7qsC&lpg=PA326&dq=isho%60dnah&pg=PA326#v=onepage&q=isho%60dnah&f=false p. 326].</ref>
  
 
==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==
  
* FT by J.B.Chabot (1891)
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* J.B.Chabot, ''Le livre de la chasteté, composé par Jésusdnah, éveque de Baçra'' (Rome, 1896) (Brock says 1891).  French translation.<ref name=Howard-Johnston/>
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* J.M.Fiey, ''Icho`dnah metropolite de Basra, et son oeuvre'', L'Orient Syrien 11 (1966), 431-50.<ref name=Howard-Johnston/>
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* P. Nautin, ''L'auteur de la "Chronique de Seert": Išo`dnah de Basra'', Revue de l'histoire des religions 186 (1974)<ref name=Howard-Johnston/>
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* J.M.Fiey, ''Išo`dnah et la Chronique de Seert''.<ref name=Howard-Johnston/>
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* Baumstark, p.234.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 15:51, 26 May 2011

Isho`dnah or Isodenah was an East Syriac writer who flourished ca. 860 AD. He was metropolitan of Prat d-Maishan, modern Basra.[1]

Works

The following works are known.

  • Book of Chastity or History of the Founders of Monasteries in the realms of the Persians and the Arabs.FT This is a collection of 140 short notices concerning monastic figures, beginning with Mar Augen, supposedly in the 4th century, and continued down to the mid-9th century.
  • An Ecclesiastical History. This is lost, but cited by Elias of Nisibis, writing in the early 11th century. A comparison between the Book of Chastity and the Chronicle of Seert shows that the latter is dependent on the former. Similarly the lost Ecclesiastical History can be shown to be a source when material taken from it by Elias of Nisibis is compared with the parallel passages in the [[Chronicle of Seert].[2]

Bibliography

  • J.B.Chabot, Le livre de la chasteté, composé par Jésusdnah, éveque de Baçra (Rome, 1896) (Brock says 1891). French translation.[2]
  • J.M.Fiey, Icho`dnah metropolite de Basra, et son oeuvre, L'Orient Syrien 11 (1966), 431-50.[2]
  • P. Nautin, L'auteur de la "Chronique de Seert": Išo`dnah de Basra, Revue de l'histoire des religions 186 (1974)[2]
  • J.M.Fiey, Išo`dnah et la Chronique de Seert.[2]
  • Baumstark, p.234.

References

  1. Sebastian Brock, A brief outline of Syriac literature, Moran Etho 9, (1997), p. 68 and p. 138.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 James Howard-Johnston, Witnesses to a World Crisis: Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the seventh century, Oxford (2010) p. 326.