Jean Gribomont (1920–1986) was a

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scholar who professed as monk of the Abbey of

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(Luxemburg) in 1939. He is noted for a vast range of publications in French (and some Latin) covering the origins and history of ascetic currents and monasticism particularly, although not only, in the

Syriac Syriac may refer to: *Syriac language, an ancient dialect of Middle Aramaic *Sureth, one of the modern dialects of Syriac spoken in the Nineveh Plains region * Syriac alphabet ** Syriac (Unicode block) ** Syriac Supplement * Neo-Aramaic languages a ...

-speaking and eastern

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context of the fourth and fifth centuries of the common era. These include a major work and article on St. Basil, three encyclopaedia entries on

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, studies of

Messalianism The Euchites or Messalians were a Christian sect from Mesopotamia that spread to Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) and Thrace. The name 'Messalian' comes from the Syriac , ''mṣallyānā'', meaning 'one who prays'. The Greek translation is , ''euchit� ...

, work in the Syriac domain and also of later Latin monasticism.

Selected works

*Histoire du texte des Ascétiques de S. Basile, Louvain, 1953. *Le monasticisme au IVè s., de Gangres au Messalianisme, 1957 (Texte u. Untersuchungen 64). *Eustathe de Sébaste, Dictionnaire de Spiritualité, 1961; Dictionnaire d' Histoire et Géographie Ecclésiastiques, 1964, Dictionnaire,1990. *Le dossier des origines du Messalianisme, in Epektasis, Mélanges patristiques offerts au Cardinal Jean Daniélou, Paris, 1972. *Documents sur l' origine de l'Eglise Maronite, in Paroles d' Orient 1, Kaslik, 1974. *La catéchèse de Sévère d'Antioche et le Credo, in Paroles d'Orient 6-7, Kaslik, 1975-76. *Saint Basile, Evangile et Eglise, Abbaye de Bellefontaine, 1984. *Introductions etc. to Rupert de Deutz, Les Oeuvres du Saint - Esprit, Sources Chrétiennes, Textes Monastiques, 1967, 1970. *Contributions to J. Fontaine & Ch. Pietri, Le Monde Latin et la Bible, Beauchesne, 1985 and to Biblia sacra iuxta Vulgatam versionem (R. Weber), 1975. *Le symbole de la foi de Séleucie-Ctésiphon(410) in Fischer, R.H. ed. A tribute to Arthur Vööbus: studies in early Christian literature and environment, primarily in the Syrian East, Chicago, 1977.

References

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