O SPIRITO ECUMENICO DI – MAR MIKHAIL AL-KEBIR
e le circostanze politiche e sociali che lo favorirono Introduzione I Dice Mar Mikhail nella Prefazione al Libro delle Cronache : Ho scritto cio’ che ho ritenuto utile e conveniente affine di svegliare la pigrizia mortale di molti, e per dissipare le tenebre dell’ignoranza. Lascio questo tesoro alla Chiesa e ai maestri dei Figli della Nuova Sion; cosi’ potro’ sopravvivere al mio tempo. Pastore zelante e maestro illuminato del suo gregge, Mar Mikhail, animato da profondo spirito apostolico, scrive le Cronache con l’intento preciso di insegnare ai suoi fedeli, ai Figli della Nuova...
Read MoreMICHAEL THE SYRIAN AS A SOURCE FOR ECONOMIC HISTORY – Dr. Michael G. Morony
Prepared for the Symposium on Mor Michael the syrian Damascus, October !-8, 1999 Claude Cahen, in a famous article, analyzed economic conditions in the Jazira’ in the third quarter of the eighth century C.E. based on information in the Syriac Chronicle of Zugnin. In partial homage to his work the object here is to evaluate the economic information contained in the monumental universal history of the Syrian Orthodox Patriarch, Michael the Syrian (1166-1199). Most of this information concerns conditions affecting agricultural production, livestock, the labor force, property, and commerce...
Read MoreOriginality and Function of Formal Structures in the Chronicle of Michael the Great – Dorothea WELTECKE
Abstract The world chronicle or the universal chronography by Michael the Great is the most voluminous historical work written within the Syriac Orthodox tradition. Usually its content is used to gain historical data, either about events it is dealing with or about its sources. In the present paper some suggestions are made to read the work as a historical achievement in its own right. Though very different from each other, both modern and post-modern thinking often evaluate historiography – at least historiography written by others – with categories developed for poetic...
Read MoreEntry EDESSA IN THE ERA OF PATRIARCH MICHAEL THE SYRIAN – Rev. Joseph Tarzi, Ph.D.
INTRODUCTION The year 1999 not only marked the 800th anniversary of the departure of Patriarch Michael the Great, but also the 7Sth anniversary of the forced mass-exodus of the Syrian Orthodox people of Edessa, and the movement of the Syrian Church of Edessa to Aleppo, Syria. In an attempt to combine the two occasions, I chose the topic of my paper to be “Edessa at the time of Patriarch Michael the Great.” Although Patriarch Michael was born in 1126, and died in 1199, the period covered in this presentation is almost entirely the 12th century, that is from the year 1100 to 1200...
Read MoreMaronites and the Anaphora of Patriach Mikhail the Great – Fadi BARUDI
The maphrian Grigorios Ibn-al’Ibri (Barhebraeus-13th c.) is the author ofa book entitled “Manarat al-Aqdaas”. The same title was given to a book by the Maronite patriarch and historian Istifan ad-Duwayhi (17th c.) which implies that he was inspired by the title used by his predecessor. However, what concerns us in ad- Duwayhi’s book here is the part in which the historian refers to the anaphora of Patriach Mikhail the Great and which was used among other Syriac anaphorae current in the liturgy of the Maronite Church. In his description of the word anaphora, the number...
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