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Gregorius Bar-Hebraeus

Gregorius Bar-Hebraeus

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Gregorius Bar-Hebraeus , 1226–86, Syrian scholar, bishop of the Jacobite Church . Partly Jewish in ancestry, his original name was Abu-al-Faraj. His most celebrated work is a chronicle in Syriac of the world from Adam down. His commentaries (in Arabic and Syriac) on Aristotle were widely known among Arabic-speaking scholars.

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Bar Hebraeus

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Bar Hebraeus (1226–86), the usual name of Abû-l-Farağ, a Jacobite bishop and polymath. The son of a Jewish physician, he was converted to Christianity, consecrated bishop in 1246, and in 1264 became Primate of the East. His works, mostly encyclopaedic in character, were mainly written in Syriac, a few in Arabic.
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