Bar-Hebraeus

Gregorios Abu' l-Faradg Aldine Gamal , called by the syriacisants Bar Ebroyo . The transformation of this name into Latin gave Bar-Hebraeus (wire of Hebrew) what led to false interpretations on its origins. Certain orientalists too quickly deduced that his/her father Aaron, doctor distinguished from Mélitène, was a Jew converted with Christianity. According to searchs for Jean Fathi-Chelhod, Bar Ebroyo would mean rather than it was originating in a small village called Ebro. (Let us recall besides that no Jew forever borne this name “wire of Hebrew”)

After Yahya Ibn “Adi, syriaque philosophy entered an apparent sleep. The policy of translation of the texts of Aristote and philosophical and scientific acculturation carried out under the first khalifes Abbâssides being stopped, the Christians ceased produir for the court. This external change however supported a return limited towards the language and the religious practice of the Christians monophysites.

In XIIe century, in addition to Bar Ebroyo, the jacobite Dionysius Bar Salibi (death on November 2nd, 1171) is sélèbre for its comments (comment of the Isagogue of Porphyry like the Categories, the De Interpretatione and the Analytiques of Aristote (comment on the Analytical ones is of 1148).

Biography

Bar Ebroyo was Maphrien, (large métropolite, primacy for the countries of the East) of the orthodoxe syriaque Église between 1264 and 1286.

He wrote works of theology, history and philosopher:

  • Chronicon syriacum

  • Chronycon ecclesiasticum

In philosophy, Bar Ebroyo wrote a Crème of science drawn from the Arab authors, the equivalent of an encyclopedia of philosophy peripatetician divided into 3 parts:

  1. logical
  2. science of nature (including psychology)
  3. metaphysical and theology (section1), ethics, economic, policy (section 2).

He also wrote a summary of this nap : trade of the trade . It also composed a compendium of philosophy maintains It Wisdom and an introduction to logic aristotelician the book the pupils . At the same time, the nestoriens do not seem any more to have had notable philosophical activity

See too

Alain Of Released , the medieval philosphie , Paris, PUF, Quadrige, 1993, p.89 - 90.

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External bonds

  • "Newspaper off syriac studies": " wire of the hébreu"? an error of orientalist

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