Dionysius bar Salibi

{{Short description|Syriac Orthodox Church bishop and scholar (died 1171)}} {{Oriental Orthodox sidebar}} '''Dionysius bar Salibi''' (died 1171) was a [[Syriac Orthodox]] writer and bishop, who served as [[metropolitan bishop|metropolitan]] of [[Amid]], in [[Upper Mesopotamia]], from 1166 to 1171.{{sfn|McLean|1911}} He was one of the most prominent and prolific writers within the [[Syriac Orthodox Church]] during the twelfth century.{{sfn|Bundy|1993|p=244-252}}

He was a native of [[Melitene]], on the upper [[Euphrates]]. His [[Given name|baptismal]] name was Jacob. He assumed name 'Dionysius' upon consecration to the [[episcopate]]. In 1154, he was ordained [[bishop of Marash]] by the patriarch [[Athanasius VII bar Qatra]];{{sfn|Fiey|1993|p=232-233}} a year later the [[diocese of Mabbug]] was added to his charge.{{sfn|Fiey|1993|p=229-230}} In 1166, new patriarch [[Michael the Syrian|Michael the Great]], the successor of Athanasius, transferred him to the metropolitan see of [[Amid]] in Mesopotamia, and there he remained until his death in 1171.{{sfn|McLean|1911}}{{sfn|Fiey|1993|p=162-163}}

Of his writings probably the most important are his exhaustive commentaries on the text of the Old and New Testaments, in which he skillfully interwove and summarized the interpretations of previous writers such as [[Ephrem the Syrian]], [[Chrysostom]], [[Cyril of Alexandria]], [[Moses Bar-Kepha]] and [[John of Dara]], whom he mentions together in the preface to his commentary on [[Matthew the Apostle|St Matthew]]. Among his other main works are a treatise against heretics, containing ''inter alia'' a polemic against the [[Jews]] and the [[Muslims]]; liturgical treatises, epistles and homilies.{{sfn|McLean|1911}}

His polemical works also include treatises on [[Melkite]]s,{{sfn|Mingana|Harris|1927|p=110-117}} and [[Oriental Orthodox Armenians|Armenians]].{{sfn|Mingana|1931|p=489-558}}

==Translations== * ''Dionysius Bar Ṣalībī: A Response to the Arabs'', translated by Joseph P. Amar (CSCO, Vol. 615; Louvain: Peeters, 2005). {{ISBN|978-90-429-1568-8}}. * ''The Work of Dionysius Bar Salībi Against the Armenians'', edited and translated by Alphonse Mingana (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2009). * ''The Commentary of Dionysius Bar Salibi on the Eucharist'', translated and annotated by Baby Varghese (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2011). {{ISBN|978-1-61719-404-7}}. * ''Dionysius Bar Salibi: Commentary on Myron and Baptism'', translated with introduction by Baby Varghese (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2012). * ''Dionysius Bar Ṣalībī’s Treatise Against the Jews: Edited and Translated with Notes and Commentary'', edited by Rifaat Ebied, Malki Malki, and Lionel R. Wickham (Leiden: Brill, 2020). {{ISBN|978-90-04-39147-5}}.

==See also== * [[Alogi]] * [[Syriac literature]] * [[Dioceses of the Syriac Orthodox Church]]

==References== {{reflist|2}}

==Sources== {{Refbegin|2}} * {{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Bar-Ṣalībī, Jacob|volume=3|page=446|first=Norman|last=McLean|author-link=Norman McLean}} {{Source-attribution}} * {{Cite journal|last=Brock|first=Sebastian P.|author-link=Sebastian P. Brock|title=Three Thousand Years of Aramaic Literature|journal=ARAM Periodical|year=1989|volume=1|number=1|pages=11–23|url=https://www.aramsociety.org/periodical/published-papers}} * {{Cite journal|last=Bundy|first=David|title=The Genesis Commentary of Dionysius Bar Salibi|journal=Studia Patristica|year=1993|volume=25|pages=244–252|isbn=978-90-6831-519-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B42h3mgVkWcC}} * {{Cite book|editor-last1=Ebied|editor-first1=Rifaat Y.|editor-last2=Malki|editor-first2=Malatius M.|editor-last3=Wickham|editor-first3=Lionel R.|title=Dionysius Bar Ṣalībī's Treatise Against the Jews: Edited and Translated with Notes and Commentary|year=2020|location=Leiden|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-39147-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H175DwAAQBAJ}} * {{Cite book|last=Fiey|first=Jean Maurice|author-link=Jean Maurice Fiey|title=Pour un Oriens Christianus Novus: Répertoire des diocèses syriaques orientaux et occidentaux|year=1993|location=Beirut|publisher=Orient-Institut|isbn=978-3-515-05718-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cE5tAAAAMAAJ}} * {{Cite book|last=Griffith|first=Sidney H.|author-link=Sidney H. Griffith|chapter=Dionysius bar Salibi on the Muslims|title=IV Symposium Syriacum 1984|year=1987|location=Roma|publisher=Pontificium Institutum Studiorum Orientalium|pages=353–365|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_wIuAAAAYAAJ}} * {{Cite journal|last1=Mingana|first1=Alphonse|author-link1=Alphonse Mingana|last2=Harris|first2=James Rendel|author-link2=James Rendel Harris|title=Woodbrooke Studies: Editions and Translations of Christian Documents in Syriac and Garshūni|journal=Bulletin of the John Rylands Library|year=1927|volume=11|number=1|pages=110–231|doi=10.7227/BJRL.11.1.8 |url=https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man-scw:1m1211&datastreamId=POST-PEER-REVIEW-PUBLISHERS-DOCUMENT.PDF}} * {{Cite journal|last=Mingana|first=Alphonse|author-link=Alphonse Mingana|title=Woodbrooke Studies: Christian Documents in Syriac, Arabic, and Garshūni, Edited and Translated with a Critical Apparatus|journal=Bulletin of the John Rylands Library|year=1931|volume=15|number=2|pages=489–600|doi=10.7227/BJRL.15.2.9 |url=https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man-scw:1m1295&datastreamId=POST-PEER-REVIEW-PUBLISHERS-DOCUMENT.PDF}} * {{Cite journal|last=Rabo|first=Gabriel|title=Dionysius Jacob Bar Ṣalibi's Confession of the Syrian Orthodox Faith|journal=Hekamtho: Syrian Orthodox Theological Journal|year=2015|volume=1|number=1|pages=20–39|url=https://msotseminary.edu.in/admin/uploads/hekamtho/book_1.pdf}} * {{Cite journal|last=Teule|first=Herman G. B.|title=Reflections on Identity: The Suryoye of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Bar Salibi, Bar Shakko, and Barhebraeus|journal=Church History and Religious Culture|year=2009|volume=89|number=1–3|pages=179–189|doi=10.1163/187124109X407899 |url=https://doi.org/10.1163/187124109X407899|url-access=subscription}} {{refend}}

==External links== * Dionysius bar Salibi, [https://archive.org/stream/inapocalypsimact00dion#page/n9/mode/2up ''In Apocalypsim, Actus et Epistulas Catholicas''], trans. I. Sedlacek, Romae : Karolus de Luigi (1909). * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070827185251/http://www.textexcavation.com/gaiusrome.html#barsalibi Dionysius bar Salibi: Commentary on the Apocalypse]}} * [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/dionysius_syrus_revelation_01.htm Dionysius Syrus (=Dionysius Bar Salibi): Commentary on Revelation (extracts)]. Hermathena, vol. 6 (1888) pp. 397–418, vol. 7 (1890) pp. 137–150; The Expositor 7th series, vol. 1 (1906), pp. 481–495.

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