Sergius of Resh`aina

Hearsay from the internet

• Dionysius the Areopagite was translated from Greek to Syriac by Sergius of Resh'aina.

• d. 536 AD.

• 26 books of [Galen's] work were translated into Syriac as early as the sixth century AD by Sergius of Resh' Aina (Ra's al-Ain). Sergius was a Christian priest who studied medicine in Alexandria and worked in Mesopotamia, dying in Constantinople in about AD 532 [33].

[PDF] INDEX DES MANUSCRITS ÉTUDIÉS 2003File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat SERGIUS DE. RESHAINA, "Mimro sur la vie spirituelle" * ("olim" Mossoul 92) ... DE RESH'AINA, "La vie de Maxime le Confesseur" * (texte latin) (traduction ... www.ftsr.ulaval.ca/_pdf/bibp/index_manuscrits1_auteurs2003.pdf - Similar pages

[PDF] INDEX DES MANUSCRITS ÉTUDIÉS 2003File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat GEORGES DE RESH'AINA, "La vie de Maxime le Confesseur". XXX * London, British Library, Add. 7192, f. ... SERGIUS DE RESHAINA, "Mimro sur la vie spirituelle" ... www.ftsr.ulaval.ca/_pdf/bibp//index_manuscrits5_contenus2003.pdf - Similar pages

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• Sergius of Reshaina was a doctor who translated many medical as well as philosophical works including Aristotle's Categories and Porphyry's Isagoge, twenty-six works by Galen, twelve by Hippocrates and at least part of an agricultural treatise, the Geoponica.(16) Sergius is also credited with translating a version of the collected works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.(17) http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Medi/MediErha.htm

Bibliography

• Henri Hugonnard-Roche, Aux origines de l'exégèse orientale de la logique d'Aristote: Sergius de Resh'aina († 536), médecin et philosophe, in Journal Asiatique, 277 (1989) pp. 1-17.

• Henri Hugonnard-Roche, Note sur Sergius de Resh'aina, traducteur du grec en syriaque et commentateur d'Aristote, in The Ancient Tradition in Christian and Islamic Hellenism. Studies on the Transmission of Greek Philosophy and sciences, dedicated to H.J. Drossaart Lulofs, ed. G. Endress and R. Kruk, Leiden, 1997, p. 121-143.

• Henri Hugonnard-Roche, Comme la cigogne au désert. Un prologue de Sergius de Resh'ayna à l'étude de la philosophie aristotélicienne en syriaque, in Langages et philosophie. Hommage à Jean Jolivet, éd. A. de Libera, A. Elamrani-Jamal, A. Galonnier, Paris, Vrin, 1997 (Etudes de philosophie médiévale, LXXIV), pp. 79-97.

• Henri Hugonnard-Roche, Les Catégories d'Aristote comme introduction à la philosophie, dans un commentaire syriaque de Sergius de Resh'aina († 536), in Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, 8 (1997), pp. 339-363.

• Henri Hugonnard-Roche, La logique d'Aristote du grec au syriaque. Etudes sur la transmission des textes de l'Organon et leur interprétion philosophique (Paris 2004). It's a study of the translation and commentary activity of Paul the Persian, Proba, and Sergius of Resh'aina.

• Polycarp Sherwood, Sergius of Reshaina and the Syriac Versions of the Pseudo-Denis, Sacris Erudiri 4 (1952), pp.174-184.

Links

• Aristotle's Organon

• BBKL