Aphrahat, the Persian Sage
- Active
- 337–345
- Role
- Syriac ascetic and writer in the Persian Empire
- Wrote in
- Syriac
Contemporary timeline
His life beside those who lived in his time, from the year 310 to 410.
People
Events
- A person's life
- Estimated birth
- Unknown birth
- Known to be alive; death date unknown
- Active between two years
- Event
- Received as ecumenical by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches
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Who he was
A Syriac writer who lived under the Sasanian Empire, outside the Roman Empire, possibly a bishop or monk. His twenty-three Demonstrations, self-dated between 337 and 345, show a Semitic Christianity little touched by the Greek controversies of his day.
- Region
- Mesopotamia
- Language
- Syriac
- Role
- Syriac ascetic and writer in the Persian Empire
- Active
- 337–345
His writings
1 writing, 337–345
337–345