Life of Mar Aba

Written soon after 552; the place is not known. The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

The life of Aba I, a convert from Zoroastrianism who led the Church of the East from 540 to 552, written by a man of his own time.

Life · first written in Syriac

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable: O. Braun, Ausgewählte Akten persischer Märtyrer (1915), introduction, in English at https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/life_of_mar_aba_0_intro.htm; GEDSH, "Aba I"
Mar Aba died in 552. The Life is by a contemporary, so it is soon after that.
Place written not known: O. Braun, Ausgewählte Akten persischer Märtyrer (1915), introduction, in English at https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/life_of_mar_aba_0_intro.htm; GEDSH, "Aba I"
In the Persian Empire. The town is not known.