Toma of Edessa
Toma of Edessa
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Toma of Edessa (mid-6th cent.) [Ch. of E.]
埃德萨的托马 (Toma of Edessa)（6 世纪中叶）[东方教会 (Ch. of E.)]
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Affiliate of Mar Aba and teacher at School of Nisibis; author of two ‘Explanations’ of liturgical feasts.
马尔·阿巴 (Mar Aba) 的追随者及尼西比斯学院 (School of Nisibis) 教师；两部关于礼仪节日的《解释》(Explanations) 的作者。
An E.-Syr. student of the Cath. Mar Aba I (d. 552) associated with the School of Nisibis. He is probably not the same Toma of Edessa who is supposed to have taught Aba Greek as well as traveled with him to the West. Furthermore, he has been confused in the past with the W.-Syr. Tumo of Ḥarqel . His two extant treatises, one on the Epiphany and the other on the Nativity, are both examples of the E.-Syr. cause (ʿellta) genre, which focused primarily on the aetiology of E.-Syr. festival days. The former of these two texts remains only in ms. form. Along with these two texts, ʿAbdishoʿ attributes to him a refutation of astrology, ‘hortatory discourses’ (buyyāye), anti-heretical disputations, and a ‘letter on qāle’, that is, strophes with prefixed versicles that are chanted.
一位东叙利亚 (E.-Syr.) 学生，师从大公宗主 (Cath.) 玛尔·阿巴一世 (Mar Aba I，卒于 552 年)，与尼西比斯学院 (School of Nisibis) 有关联。他可能并非那位埃德萨 (Edessa) 的托马 (Toma)，后者据称曾教授阿巴 (Aba) 希腊语，并与其一同前往西方 (West)。此外，过去他曾与西叙利亚 (W.-Syr.) 的哈尔克尔 (Ḥarqel) 的图莫 (Tumo) 混淆。他现存的两篇论文，一篇论显现节 (Epiphany)，另一篇论诞生节 (Nativity)，均为东叙利亚 (E.-Syr.)“原因 (ʿellta)“体裁的范例，主要侧重于东叙利亚 (E.-Syr.) 节庆日的缘由。这两篇文本中的前者仅存手稿 (ms.) 形式。除这两篇文本外，阿卜迪舒 (ʿAbdishoʿ) 还归给他一篇驳占星术的文章、“劝诫讲道” (buyyāye)、反异端辩论，以及一封“关于曲调 (qāle) 的书信”，即带有前置短句的吟唱诗节。
References
Abbeloos and Lamy, Gregorii Barhebraei chronicon ecclesiasticum, vol. 2, 89–90.
Assemani, BibOr, vol. 3.1, 86–87.
A. Baumstark, ‘Die nestorianischen Schriften “De causis festorum” ’, OC 1 (1901), 320–42, esp. 324–5. (see also , in OC 9 [1911], 332–37, esp. 335).
S. J. Carr, Thomae Edesseni tractatus de Nativitate D. N. Christi (1898). (Syr. and LT)
P. Y. Patros, Teologia del battesimo e dell’epifania nella “Spiegazione” sull’epifania di Tommaso di Edessa (VI sec.) (Ph. D. Diss., Rome; 2007). (includes an IT of the unpublished text on the Epiphany)
A. Scher, Histoire nestorienne inédite (Chronique de Séert), vol. 2 (PO 7.2; 1911), 79.
Baumstark, Literatur, 121–22.
P. Bettiolo, ‘Scuola ed Economia Divina nella Catechesi della Chiesa di Persia: Appunti su un testo di Tommaso di Edessa († ca 542)’, in Esegesi e Catechesi nei Padri (secc. IV– VII), ed. S. Felici (1994), 147–57.
Th. Haintaler, ‘Thomas of Edessa, Causa de Nativitate. Some considerations’, ParOr 31 (2006), 63–85.
Vööbus, History of the School of Nisibis, 173–4.
Citation
Adam H. Becker. 2011. “Toma of Edessa.” In Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Beth Mardutho. https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Toma-of-Edessa.