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Simeon Of Rewardashir
Simeon of Rev Ardashir (7th or 8th century), whose name in Syriac is Shemʿon, was a Persian priest and jurist of the Church of the East. He served as the metropolitan bishop of Fars with his seat at Rev Ardashir. His dates are uncertain, as is his identification with the metropolitan of the same name known from a pair of letters. Treatise Simeon wrote a treatise, the ''Law of Inheritance'', on hereditary law and family law in Middle Persian. The Persian version is lost, but a Syriac translation survives, made by an anonymous monk of Beth Qatraye (Eastern Arabia) at the request of a priest named Simeon. This may be a contemporary translation. The monk notes that the work was difficult to translate. A single copy of the Syriac translation is found in the manuscript in the Vatican manuscript Borg.sir.81, itself a 19th-century copy of a lost manuscript from Alqosh (no. 169). Simeon was sometimes quoted in Arabic works, such as by the Patriarch Timothy I. These Arabic extracts w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syriac Language
The Syriac language (; syc, / '), also known as Syriac Aramaic (''Syrian Aramaic'', ''Syro-Aramaic'') and Classical Syriac ܠܫܢܐ ܥܬܝܩܐ (in its literary and liturgical form), is an Aramaic language, Aramaic dialect that emerged during the first century AD from a local Aramaic dialect that was spoken by Arameans in the ancient Aramean kingdom of Osroene, centered in the city of Edessa. During the Early Christian period, it became the main literary language of various Aramaic-speaking Christian communities in the historical region of Syria (region), Ancient Syria and throughout the Near East. As a liturgical language of Syriac Christianity, it gained a prominent role among Eastern Christian communities that used both Eastern Syriac Rite, Eastern Syriac and Western Syriac Rite, Western Syriac rites. Following the spread of Syriac Christianity, it also became a liturgical language of eastern Christian communities as far as India (East Syriac ecclesiastical province), India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
