Saka, Yaʿqub
Saka, Yaʿqub
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Saka, Yaʿqub (1864–1931) [Syr. Orth.]
雅各布·萨卡 (Yaʿqub Saka) (1864–1931) [叙利亚正教 (Syr. Orth.)]
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Minor writer, scribe, and educator.
次要作家、抄写员和教育家。
Minor writer, scribe, and educator. He was born in Barṭelle to Buṭros b. Saka in 1864/5 and studied Syr. under the Chaldean priest Buṭros al-Karmalīsi. He was ordained a deacon in 1906, and a priest in 1929. He taught at the school of Dayro d-Mor Matay from 1926 to 1928. His students include Patr. Ignatius Yaʿqub III and Bp. Boulos Behnam. Saka died of cancer in 1931. He was a master scribe and produced over 70 mss., found now mostly in churches and monasteries in Iraq.
次要作家、抄写员和教育家。他于 1864/5 年出生于巴尔泰勒 (Barṭelle)，父亲是布特罗斯·本·萨卡 (Buṭros b. Saka)，并在加色丁神父 (Chaldean priest) 布特罗斯·卡尔马利西 (Buṭros al-Karmalīsi) 门下学习叙利亚语 (Syr.)。他于 1906 年被祝圣为执事，1929 年被祝圣为神父。1926 年至 1928 年，他在圣马太修道院 (Dayro d-Mor Matay) 学校任教。他的学生包括宗主教 (Patr.) 伊格纳提乌斯·雅各布三世 (Ignatius Yaʿqub III) 和主教 (Bp.) 保罗斯·贝赫南 (Boulos Behnam)。萨卡 (Saka) 于 1931 年死于癌症。他是一位抄写大师，制作了 70 多部手稿 (mss.)，现大多发现于伊拉克 (Iraq) 的教堂和修道院中。
His Syriac writings consist of poems (ms. Syr. Orth. Patr. Libr.). He presented a 200-page ms. of his poems to Afram Barsoum ; a second copy was preserved in Barṭelle. Selections of Saka’s poems were published by Isḥaq Saka in mimre mgabayo (1945) and in Qaṣāʾid mukhtāra (1958).
其叙利亚语著作包括诗歌（手稿 (ms.) 存于叙利亚正教宗主教图书馆 (Syr. Orth. Patr. Libr.)）。他将一部 200 页的诗歌手稿 (ms.) 赠予了阿弗拉姆·巴尔苏姆 (Afram Barsoum)；第二份副本保存于巴尔泰勒 (Barṭelle)。萨卡 (Saka) 的诗歌选集由伊斯哈格·萨卡 (Isḥaq Saka) 出版，收录于《诗集》(mimre mgabayo) (1945) 和《诗选》(Qaṣāʾid mukhtāra) (1958)。
References
Abūna, Adab, 609–10.
Barsoum, Scattered pearls, 523–4.
Macuch, Geschichte, 433–4.
Munūfar Barṣūm, Aḍwāʾ, 35–6.
I. Saka, History of the Syrian Orthodox Church (1983–86), vol. 4, 162–6. (in Arabic)
Citation
George A. Kiraz. 2011. “Saka, Yaʿqub.” In Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Beth Mardutho. https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Saka-Yaqub.