Crowning the silver age of Syriac literature is the thirteenth-century polymath Bar-Hebraeus.

Bar-Hebraeus identified Ahasuerus explicitly as Artaxerxes II ; however, the names are not necessarily equivalent: Hebrew has a form of the name Artaxerxes distinct from Ahasuerus, and a direct Greek rendering of Ahasuerus is used by both Josephus and the Septuagint for occurrences of the name outside the Book of Esther.

John of Ephesus and Bar-Hebraeus identified him as Artaxerxes II, a view strongly supported by the 20th century scholar Jacob Hoschander.

In 1649, he published the Specimen historiae arabum, a short account of the origin and manners of the Arabs, taken from Bar-Hebraeus ( Abulfaragius ), with notes from a vast number of manuscript sources which are still valuable.

After the Restoration, Pococke's political and financial troubles ended, but the reception of his magnum opus -- a complete edition of the Arabic history of Bar-Hebraeus ( Greg.

He is especially famous for his metrical homilies in the dodecasyllabic verse of which, says Bar-Hebraeus, he composed seven hundred and sixty.

* Encyclopaedia of Bar-Hebraeus ( Abu al-Faraj ) / SuryoyoNews.

* The Laughable Stories of Bar-Hebraeus, 1897 tr.

A rearrangement and abridgment of the work was made by the great Monophysite author Bar-Hebraeus ( 1226 – 1286 ), who expunged or garbled much of its unorthodox teaching.

Bar-Salibi was, like Bar-Hebraeus, a native of Malatia on the upper Euphrates.

* A double palimpsest, in which a text of St John Chrysostom, in Syriac, of the ninth or 10th century, covers a Latin grammatical treatise in a cursive hand of the 6th century, which in its turn covers the Latin annals of the historian Granius Licinianus, of the 5th century, British Museum.

In the History of the Prophets and Kings by the 9th century Muslim historian al-Tabari, Nimrod has the tower built in Babil, Allah destroys it, and the language of mankind, formerly Syriac, is then confused into 72 languages.

Perhaps his primary importance to the historian of Syriac literature lies in the zeal with which he strove to replace the Diatessaron or Gospel Harmony of Tatian with the four canonical Gospels, ordering that a copy of the latter should be placed in every church.

A Syriac bishop, philosopher, poet, grammarian, physician, biblical commentator, historian, and theologian, he was the son of a physician, Aaron (, ).

Two other first-hand reports of the plague's ravages were by the Syriac church historian John of Ephesus and Evagrius Scholasticus, who was a child in Antioch at the time and later also became a church historian.

The name Bukhtishu according to Kitāb ' Uyūn al-anbā ' fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbā ( كتاب عيون الأنباء في طبقات الأطباء ) of the 12th century for the Arab historian Ibn abi usaybia ( ابن أبي أصيبعة ) means " servant of Jesus " ( في اللغة السريانية البخت العبد ويشوع عيسى عليه السلام ) in Syriac language.

In addition, Severus Sebokht, a bishop who lived in Mesopotamia, also wrote a treatise on the astrolabe in Syriac in the mid-7th century.

This became the Gospel par excellence of Syriac-speaking Christianity until in the 5th century Rabbula, bishop of Edessa, suppressed it and substituted a revision of the Old Syriac Canonical Gospels ( Ewangelion da-mfarshe ).

In 1491 the archdeacon sent envoys to the Patriarch of the Church of the East, as well as to the Coptic Pope of Alexandria and to the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, requesting a new bishop for India.

Materials for his life are furnished by two Syriac biographies by his contemporary, John of Ephesus, whom Jacobus ordained bishop of Ephesus, printed by Land, and by the third part of the Ecclesiastical History of the same author.

* Geevarghese Mor Coorilose ( George Mathews Nalunnakkal, born 1965 ), Syriac Orthodox bishop

: Kuşsarayı ) near Malatya, Sultanate of Rûm ( modern Turkey, today province Elazig ) – 30 July 1286 in Maraga, Persia ) was a catholicos ( bishop ) of the Syriac Orthodox Church in the 13th century.

In 410, according to the Oriental Syriac Church synodal records, a bishop named Batai was excommunicated from the church in Bahrain.

He was the second bishop of Nisibis, spiritual father of the renowned Syriac writer Ephrem the Syrian, and celebrated ascetic.

This led to a rift with the church hierarchy ; Malpan's nephew was consecrated as metropolitan bishop by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch in 1842, establishing what would later be known as the Mar Thoma Church.

In his letter to George, bishop of Serugh, on Syriac orthography ( published by Phillips in London 1869, and by Martin in Paris the same year ) he sets forth the importance of fidelity by scribes in the copying of minutiae of spelling.

The British Orthodox Church was originally established in 1866 when a Frenchman, Jules Ferrette, was consecrated as a bishop by the Syriac Orthodox Church with the purpose of establishing Oriental Orthodoxy to the West.

Pope Michael opposed the enthroning of the bishop Isaac as a Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch after the death of Iwanis I because he was already the Bishop of an eparchy ( Harran ).

The last-known Syriac Orthodox bishop of Seleucia, Ahron ( 847 / 874 ), is mentioned in the lists of Michael the Syrian.

" According to a Nestorian Syriac chronicle attributed to Elias, bishop of Merv (?

** Jean-Baptiste Chabot, French Roman Catholic priest and Syriac scholar ( d. 1948 )

* July 11-Bardaisan, Syriac gnostic ( d. 222 )

* Abul-Faraj, Syriac scholar ( d. 1286 )

* Philoxenus of Mabbug ( d. 523 ), Syriac writer and proponent of Miaphysitism

Famous individuals connected with Edessa include: Jacob Baradaeus, the real chief of the Syriac Miaphysites known after him as Jacobites ; Stephen Bar Sudaïli, monk and pantheist, to whom was owing, in Palestine, the last crisis of Origenism in the 6th century ; Jacob, Bishop of Edessa, a fertile writer ( d. 708 ); Theophilus the Maronite, an astronomer, who translated into Syriac verse Homer's Iliad and Odyssey ; the anonymous author of the Chronicon Edessenum ( Chronicle of Edessa ), compiled in 540 ; the writer of the story of " The Man of God ", in the 5th century, which gave rise to the legend of St. Alexius, also known as Alexius of Rome ( because exiled Eastern monks brought his cult and bones to Rome in the 10th century ).

A gloss in Syriac identifies Jingjing with ' Adam, priest, chorepiscopus and papash of Sinistan ' ( Adam qshisha w ' kurapisqupa w ' papash d ' Sinistan ).

Built from yellow rock, the monastery is affectionately known as Dayro d Kurkmo in Syriac, Dayr al-Zafaran in Arabic, or Deyrülzafarân in Turkish: the Safron Monastery.

In the East, in the Syriac Orthodox Church, Aphrahat ( c. 340 ) treated it as canonical and Ephraem of Syria ( d. 373 ) apparently accepted it as canonical, for he wrote a commentary on it.

* Narsai, Syriac poet-theologian ( d. c. 502 )

As part of this doctoral work, Palackal brought out a CD, Qambel Maran, a collection of Syriac chants in the Chaldean tradition of the Syro-Malabar Church ; it includes the hymn Awun d ’ wasmayya, i. e., the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic, arguably in the same words which were used by Jesus when he taught the Pater Noster, compositions by St. Ephrem the Syrian ( notably the acrostic hymn Iso maaran m ’ siha on the name Iso M ' siha, i. e., Jesus the Messiah ), and the Syriac translation Sabbah lesan of the Latin hymn Pange Lingua by St. Thomas Aquinas ; these chants had up to then been preserved in the main only in oral tradition ; among the singers is Fr.

The author corrects in this work what he considers to be the mistakes of Emmanuel Schelstrate and Hardouin, and offers a proof that the native tongue of Christ and the Apostles was Syriac, not Greek, as Dominicus Diodati ( d. 1801 ) had maintained in his De Christo loquente exercitatio ( Naples, 1767 ).