The Syriac Chronicle of Edessa records that Diogenes became bishop of Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 409, and started to build a church dedicated to *Barlaam/Barlāhā (martyr of Antioch, S00417). Written in Edessa, in second half of 6th c.
Evidence ID
E00078
Type of Evidence
Literary - Other narrative texts (including Histories)
Chronicle of Edessa 48
ܫܢܬ ܫܒܥܡܐܐ ܘܥܣܖ̈ܝܢ. ܗܘܐ ܡܪܝ ܕܝܘܓܢܝܤ ܐܦܝܣܩܘܦܐ ܒܐܘܪܗܝ. ܘܗ̣ܘ ܫܪܝ ܠܡܒܢܐ ܒܝܬ ܡܪܝ ܒܪܠܗܐ
The year 720 [AD 409], Mar Diogenes became bishop in Edessa, and he began to build the house of Mar Barlāhā.
Text: Guidi 1903, 6. Translation: Cowper 1864, 34.
Liturgical Activities
Ceremony of dedication
Cult PlacesCult building - independent (church)
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesEcclesiastics - bishops
Source
The Chronicle of Edessa is a collection of mainly short entries, most of which are related to the history of the city of Edessa. It is an original Syriac composition, produced in the second half of the 6th century by a pro-Chalcedonian Syriac-speaking author.Syriac text: Guidi 1903, vol. 1, 1-13; English translation: Cowper 1864, 30-39; German translation: Hallier 1892, 84-138; Russian translation: Пигулевская 1959. For general information, see van Rompay 2011; Witakowski 1986.
Discussion
The Chronicle reports that after he became bishop of Edessa in the year 409 Diogenes started to build a church dedicated to *Barlāhā. This church is mentioned also in the Syriac Acts of the Second Council of Ephesus (449), in connection with Hiba of Edessa (see ed. Flemming 1917, p. 26).Bibliography
Editions and translations:Guidi, I., Chronica minora, Pars prior. 2 vols (CSCO Syr. III.4; Paris: Typographeo Reipublicae, 1903).
Cowper, B.H., “Selections from the Syriac. No. I: The Chronicle of Edessa,” Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record NS V, 9 (1864), 28-45.
Hallier, L., Untersuchungen über die Edessenische Chronik, mit dem Syrischen Text und einer Übersetzung (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 9.1; Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1892).
Пигулевская, Н.В., “Эдесская хроника,” Палестинский сборник 4 [67] (1959), 79-96; reprinted in: Пигулевская, Н.В., Сирийская средневековая историография. Исследования и переводы (С.-Петербург: Дмитрий Буланин , 2000), 468-476.
Further reading:
Rompay, L. van, “Chronicle of Edessa,” in: S.P. Brock, A.M. Butts, G.A. Kiraz and L. van Rompay (eds.), Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), 97-98.
Witakowski, W., “Chronicles of Edessa,” in: T. Kronholm and E. Riad (eds.), On the Dignity of Man: Oriental and Classical Studies on Honour of Frithiof Rundgren (Orientalia Suecana 33-35; Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1986), 487-498.
Record Created By
Sergey Minov
Date of Entry
13/10/2014
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00417 | Barlaam/Barlāhā, martyr of Antioch | ܒܪܠܗܐ | Certain |
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