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On the Council of Nicaea

Written about 410, if it is his; the place is not known. The date is disputed or rests on weak evidence.

It carries the name of Marutha of Maiperqat. Many scholars say it is not by that writer.

A short Syriac account of the Council of Nicaea and its bishops, from the collection under the name of Marutha.

History · first written in Syriac

The English in the corpus is an old unsigned translation from a Yale manuscript. The Syriac texts on Nicaea carry his name, but "his authorship of these is very uncertain": S. P. Brock, Marutha of Maypherqat, Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Marutha-of-Maypherqat

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How we know the date and place

Date written not sure

Ascribed to him; if his, written for the Persian church near the synod of 410 (O. Braun, De Sancta Nicaena Synodo, 1898; A. Voobus, The Canons Ascribed to Maruta, CSCO 439-440, 1982, doubts parts)

Place written not known

Braun (1898); Voobus (1982)