Elijah — ܐܠܝܐ
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Eliya; ܐܠܝܐ; Elijah; Elijah of Antioch; Elias Episcopus
identifier: http://syriaca.org/person/945
identifier: http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/SRP|person_945
identifier: http://viaf.org/viaf/44309384
Author of a long letter, in twelve sections addressed to his friend Leon of Ḥarran, synkellos of the Chalcedonian bp. of Ḥarran, in which he gives reason why he left the Melkite Church for the Syr. Orth.
floruit: late 8th/early 9th cent.
state: Syriac Orthodox
state: Author
S. P. Brock Eliya (late 8th/early 9th cent) The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage 142
Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur mit Ausschluß der christlich-palästinensischen Texte 269
Ortiz de Urbina, Patrologia Syriaca 137
Brock, A brief outline of Syriac literature 51