Barḥadbshabba_of_Ḥulwān

Barhadbshabba of Hulwan

Barhadbshabba of Hulwan

Theologian and bishop


Barḥadbshabba of Ḥulwān was a 7th-century theologian and Christian bishop of the Church of the East who wrote many religious works and a history of the School of Nisibis which is of historical interest.

Barhadbeshabba was a partisan of the theologian Henana of Adiabene,[1] although he evidently was not caught up in his downfall. He probably wrote his "On the Reason of the Schools", a history of the schools of Nisibis and Edessa, while a student at the school in Nisibis. In 605 he became the bishop of Holwan (modernly, near the western border of Iran). He was a signatory to the results of a synod called in 605 by Patriarch Gregory. Barhadbeshabba also wrote controversial and exegetical works.

A French translation of Barhadbeshabba's "On the Reason of the Schools" was published in 1907 by Addai Scher, a Chaldean Catholic archbishop.

Some scholars identify Barhadbeshabba of Holwan with Barhadbshabba Arbaya, writer of an important church history, who was also at the school in Nisibis.


Notes

  1. Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 14, New York: Robert Appleton & Co., 1912, p. 410

Bibliography

  • Becker, Adam H. (2006). Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom: The School of Nisibis and the Development of Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia. University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Becker, Adam H.; Childers, Jeff W. (2011). "Barḥadbshabba ʿArbaya". In Sebastian P. Brock; Aaron M. Butts; George A. Kiraz; Lucas Van Rompay (eds.). Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Gorgias Press. pp. 57–58.
  • Brock, Sebastian (1997). A Brief Outline of Syriac Literature. Kottyam: St Ephrem's Ecumenical Research Institute.
  • Ramelli, Ilaria (2018). "Barhadbeshabba of Halwan". In Nicholson, Oliver (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, Volume 1: A–I. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 212–213. ISBN 978-0-19-881624-9.

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