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(or YUHANNA ABUL FARAJ), Syrian bishop and historian: b. Mala tiah 1226; d. Maragha, 30 July 1286. His father was a Jew by birth and the son became known as Bar-Hebrzus, that is, °son of the Hebrew." His father having moved to Antioch Bar-He brwus completed his education there. He studied Arabic and Syriac, philosophy, theology and medicine, and acquired distinction among his contemporaries. In 1246 he was ordained at Tripolis as Jacobite bishop of Gubas, near Malatia, and a year later was transferred to the neighboring diocese of Lakabhim, whence in 1253 he passed to be bishop of Aleppo. He was deposed soon after by his superior on ac count of disputes about the patnarchate, and was restored to his see in 1258. In 1264 he was promoted by the patriarch, Ignatius III, to be maphrian— the next rank below that of patriarch—an office he held until his death. To the modern student Bar-Hebrwus is im portant as a historian. His Syriac 'Chronicle' is made up of three parts. The first is a history of secular events from the Creation to his own time and gives valuable informa tion regarding the history of southeastern Europe and western Asia. The second and third parts of the 'Chronicle' deal with the history of the Church. For theologians his (Ausar Raze' ((Storehouse of Secrets') is of special value as a critical and doctrinal com mentary on the texts of the Scriptures. A
full list of his other works and of editions of such of them as have been published is con tained in W. Wright's 'Syriac Literature.' The more important of them are (Kethabha dhe-Bhabhatha> (