Babai of Nisibis
Babai of Nisibis
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Babai of Nisibis (6th/7th cent.) [Ch. of E.]
尼西比斯的巴巴伊 (Babai of Nisibis) (6/7 世纪) [东方教会 (Ch. of E.)]
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Monastic author.
修道作者。
Monastic author. According to the Khuzistan Chronicle there was rivalry between him and Babai the Great , as a result of which he was known as ‘Babai the Small’. His authorship of a monastic ‘Letter to Cyriacus’, transmitted in W.-Syr. mss. and attributed to ‘Babai whom the wicked Barṣawma slew’ (i.e., the Cath. Babowai, 457–84), is confirmed by a quotation, attributed to him, in Dadishoʿ ’s ‘Commentary on Abba Isaiah’ (13:18). He was also author of some memre, one being ‘On the final evil hour’ (of which a fragment in Sogdian translation also survives), and at least one Tešboḥtā (which is also found in the Maronite Weekday Office).
修道作家。据《胡齐斯坦编年史》(Khuzistan Chronicle) 记载，他与大巴拜 (Babai the Great) 之间存在竞争，因此他被称为“小巴拜”(Babai the Small)。其修道院作品《致基里亚库斯书》(Letter to Cyriacus) 的作者身份流传于西叙利亚语手稿 (W.-Syr. mss.) 中，并被归于“被邪恶的巴尔扫马 (Barṣawma) 杀害的巴拜”（即大公宗主 (Cath.) 巴博怀 (Babowai)，457–84 年），这一身份由达迪肖 (Dadishoʿ)《阿爸以赛亚注释》(Commentary on Abba Isaiah) (13:18) 中归于他的一段引文所证实。他也是若干训诲诗 (memre) 的作者，其中一篇为《论最终的邪恶时刻》(On the final evil hour)（其中粟特语 (Sogdian) 译本片段亦存世），以及至少一首赞美诗 (Tešboḥtā)（亦见于《马龙派平日祷文》(Maronite Weekday Office) 中）。
References
S. P. Brock, Malponuto d-abohoto suryoye d-ʿal ṣluto (Glane/Losser, 1988), 93–114. (Syr. of Letter to Cyriacus)
, The Syriac Fathers on Prayer, 136–65. (ET of Letter to Cyriacus)
, ‘Some early witnesses of the East Syriac liturgical tradition’, JAAS 18 (2004), 9–45, esp. 38–9.
A. J. Maclean, East Syrian Daily Offices (1894), 157–8. (ET of Tešboḥtā)
N. Sims-Williams, The Christian Sogdian manuscript C2 (Berliner Turfantexte XII; 1985), 87–100.
Citation
Sebastian P. Brock. 2011. “Babai of Nisibis.” In Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Beth Mardutho. https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Babai-of-Nisibis.