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Aphrahat
c. 270 – c. 345
TheologianMonk
Quick facts
- Born
- c. 270
- Died
- c. 345
- Region
- syria
- Era
- nicene
- Significance
- Notable(2/4)
- Also known as
- Aphraates · the Persian Sage · Jacob the Persian Sage
Highlights
- Main contribution
- Persian Christian sage who wrote 23 Demonstrations in Syriac (337-345), among the earliest surviving Syriac Christian theological works.
- Primary source
- Aphrahat, Demonstrations
Persian Christian sage who wrote 23 Demonstrations in Syriac (337-345), among the earliest surviving Syriac Christian theological works.
Recommended reading near Aphrahat
A cover-visible starting point chosen from the curated reading path, either by this figure or by their era.
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Sources for biography
- Aphrahat, Demonstrations primary
- ODCC s.v. Aphraates secondary
- Sebastian Brock, The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual World Vision of Saint Ephrem the Syrian secondary
tradition connections(2)
- knew of (incoming) Ephrem the SyrianEphrem and Aphrahat are the two principal 4th-century Syriac Fathers and share the same theological idiom (typological exegesis, anti-Jewish polemic, ascetic ideals). Direct citation is not preserved; the link is the shared Syriac milieu and parallel content noted by modern scholarship.Murray, Symbols of Church and Kingdom (CUP 1975), pp. 29-38 · Brock, The Luminous Eye (Cistercian 1992), ch. 1
- knew of Ephrem the SyrianAphrahat (writing 337-345 in Sasanian Persia) and Ephrem (in Roman Nisibis/Edessa) are the two great early Syriac authors and near-contemporaries. Direct contact is not attested in primary sources; the linkage is a scholarly/traditional pairing of the founders of Syriac theological literature.Sebastian Brock, A Brief Outline of Syriac Literature · ODCC s.v. Aphraates
External resources
📖WikipediaFull encyclopedic biography with footnotes and further reading.🔗WikidataStructured data hub linking to library catalogues, archives, and academic sources worldwide.🏛️WikisourcePublic-domain primary texts and translations (search).⛪Catholic Encyclopedia1913 reference — long entries, useful for less-known figures (search for Aphrahat).