Timothy I
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Timothy I, Patriarch of the Nestorians, 727/728-823
779-823 Patriarchate of Timothy I, greatest Nestorian patriarch under the Arab Caliphate, during which metropolitans are appointed for Armenia and Syria and the Kaghan of the Turks is said to have been converted.
His letters contain much of interest for the study of the transmission of texts. In particular he records the discovery of some ancient Hebrew psalms in the region of the Dead Sea by a goatherd.
Bibliography
- "Timothei patriarchae I Epistulae", ed. Oskar Braun, CSCO 74, 75. Louvain :Durbecq (1914/15, repr. 1953). Syriac and Latin.
- Alphonse Mingana, ed. and trans. The Apology of Timothy the Patriarch before the Caliph Mahdi. No. 3, Woodbrooke Studies, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library (Manchester, 1928), 137-298.
- Lawrence E. Browne, "The Patriarch Timothy and the Caliph al-Mahdi" in The Moslem World, January 1931.
Links
- Mark Dickens, Nestorian Christianity in Central Asia
