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In hagiography: Jonah of Anbar (Yawnān Nūkhriṭā/the "Foreigner") was born Yuwanis in a noble family of the lineage of Constantine the Great. He became a disciple of Mar Awgin. He changed his name to Jonah. He journeyed to Jerusalem and Scetis. Mar Awgin sent him to the land of the Persians, and he founded the monastery at Peroz Shapur on the Euphrates.

Names

  • Jonah of Anbar
  • Jonas d’Anbar2
  • YAWNĀN L'ETRANGER1
  • Yawnān Nūkhriṭā
  • Yawnan the Foreigner
  • Yuwanis

Floruit

300-400

Death

The monastery of Yawnan at al-Anbar

Notes

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Works Cited

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  • 1 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 456.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca., entry: 1496.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Paulus Bedjan, Acta martyrum et sanctorum (Paris / Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1890-1897), vol: I, p: 466-525.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Paul Peeters, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 527-30.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Addai Scher, Kitāb sīrat ’ašhar šuhadā’ al-Mašriq al-qiddisīn (Mossoul: Imprimerie des pères dominicains, 1900-1906)., vol: II, p: 143-75.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., vol: II, p: 1354-55.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 8 Jean-Maurice Fiey, "Diocèses syriens orientaux du Golfe persique." in François Graffin (ed.), Mémorial Mgr Gabriel Khouri-Sarkis (1898–1968), fondateur et directeur de L’Orient Syrien, 1956–1967 (Louvain: Imprimerie orientaliste, 1969)., p: 177-219.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

How to Cite This Entry

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Jonah of Anbar” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1511.

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Jonah of Anbar.”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1511.

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  • Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
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  • Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
  • Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne

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