Porphyry of Tyre - ܦܪܦܘܪܝܘܣ

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Greek author and Neoplatonist.1

Names

  • ܦܪܦܘܪܝܘܣ
  • Porphyry of Tyre
  • ܒܪ ܦܝܪܘܣ4
  • ܒܰܪ ܦܺܝܪܘܣ4
  • برفيريوس3
  • Porphyry1, 2

Birth

ca. 232

Death

ca. 305

Notes

Dolabani's Syriac name erroneously back-transliterates from the Arabic rather then providing the Syriac form used earlier: ܒܪ ܦܝܪܘܣ ܒܰܪ ܦܺܝܪܘܣ
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Works Cited

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  • 1 S. P. BrockPorphyryThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritagep: 337-338, 337-338., p: 337-338, 337-338.
  • 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 181.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 156.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 178.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Porphyry.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

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James E. Walters et al., “Porphyry of Tyre — ܦܪܦܘܪܝܘܣ .”, 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/684.

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  • Matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
  • Editing, Syriac name entry, Arabic name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Normalization of GEDSH dates and entry matching with viaf.org records by Alex Vawter
  • Editorial oversight for GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry, and proofreading by Christopher Johnson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry and proofreading by the Syriac Research Group, University of Alabama
  • Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts and addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH by Nathan P. Gibson

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