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Encyclopedia Britannica



RABBULA

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 769 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PYR-RAY
RABBULA , a distinguished bishop of the Syrian church early in the 5th century. He was a native of Kenneshrin, a town some few miles south of Aleppo and the seat of a bishopric. His father was a heathen priest, and though his mother was a devoted Christian he continued in
pagan
  belief and practice until some time after his
marriage
 . During a journey to his country estates he was converted to Christianity partly through coming in contact with a case of miraculous healing and partly through the teaching and influence of Eusebius, bishop of .enneshrin, and Acacius, bishop of Aleppo. With all the energy of his fiery nature he threw himself into the practice of Christian asceticism, sold all his possessions, and separated from his wife and kinspeople. He resided for some time in a monastery, and then passed to a life of greater hard-ship as a solitary hermit. On the death of
Diogenes
 , bishop of Edessa, in the year 411-412, Rabbula was chosen his successor, and at once accepted the position offered him, without any of the customary show of reluctance. As a bishop he was marked by extraordinary energy, by the continued asceticism of his personal life, by his magnificent provision for all the poor and suffering in his diocese, by his care for discipline among the clergy and monks who were under his authority, and latterly by the fierce determination with which he combated all heresies and especially the growing school of the followers of Nestorius. On one occasion he visited Constantinople and there preached before Theodosius II. (who was then favourable to Nestorius) and a
great
  congregation a sermon in denunciation of Nestorian doctrine, of which a portion survives in the Syriac version). He became the friend of Cyril of Alexandria, with whom he corresponded, and whose treatise De recta fide he translated into Syriac? After a busy episcopal life of twenty-four years he died in August 4J5, and was immensely lamented by the people of his diocese. His successor was the Nestorian Ibas.
The literary remains of Rabbula are small in bulk, and are mostly to be found in Overbeck. Perhaps his main importance to the historian of Syriac literature lies in the zeal with which he strove to replace the Diatessaron or Gospel Harmony of Tatian by the edition of the separate Gospels, ordering that a copy of the latter should be placed in every church and should
i Overbeck, op. cit. pp. 239-244.
2 The version survives in a British Museum MS.; see
Wright
 's Catalogue p. 719. -
be read (see
Wright
 's Syr. Lit. p. 9). According to his biographer (Overbeck, p. 172) he himself produced a version (or revision) of the New Testament in Syriac. This may have been, as Wright suggests. (Syr. Lit. p. 11), " a first step in the direction of the Philoxenian version." But there is
great
  probability in F. C. Burkitt's hypothesis that the product of Rabbula's
work
 , at least as regards the Gospels, is to be found in the current Peshitta text, which " represents the Greek text as read in Antioch about 400 A.D." and " was prepared by Rabhula . . . and published by his authority as a substitute for the Diatessaron." 1
Rabbula seems to have been a man of great force, devotion and self-denial: on the one hand intellectually gifted, and on the other thoroughly consistent in his practice of religion. But his attractiveness is marred, as in the case of many of his contemporaries, by the bitterness of a narrow orthodoxy.
(N. M.)


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