Isho` bar Nun
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Isho` bar Nun (ca. 744-1 April 828) was an East Syriac writer who became Catholicos.[1]
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Life
He was born at Bet Gabbare on the river Tigris, near Mosul. He studied with Timothy I under Abraham bar Dashandad. Then he taught at the School in Seleucia-Ctesiphon, but soon left to become a monk at the monastery of Mar Abraham on the mountain of Izla. Later he was active in Baghdad, and then for a long period in Mosul.
It is not certain whether he is the same person as the Isho`dad bar Nun, bishop of Ram Hormizd, who is mentioned in the letters of Timothy I. He was consecrated as Catholicos on 6 July 823.
Works
His surviving works are as follows. Only a few have been published.
- Select Questions on the Old and New Testaments ET for some of those on the Pentateuch. This may be only a selection from a larger work, now lost.
- Juridical decisions concerning marriage and inheritance, etc. GT
- A grammatical work.
- Consolatory homilies (only fragments survive)
- Letters to the periodeutes Ishaq of Beth Qatraye, and to the deacon Makarios, on liturgical matters.
- Four questions, on works of the Solitary Fathers.
Bibliography
- Select questions on the Pentateuch: E. G. Clarke (1962)
- Juridical decisions: GT by E. Sachau, Syrische Rechtsbucher 2 (1908), 119-177.
References
- ↑ Sebastian Brock, A brief outline of Syriac literature, Moran Etho 9, (1997), p. 64-5 and p. 136.
