Heirs of Theodore

Seth M. Stadel (D.Phil. 2022, University of Oxford) is a Research Associate on the ERC-funded DoSSE project in the School of History, Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester. He has published several studies on the late antique and early medieval Syriac exegetical tradition and the reception of the Psalms in Christian theology.

• AcknowledgementsSigla, Abbreviations, and ConventionsIntroduction1 The East Syriac Exegetical Tradition2 Schools and Centers of East Syriac Exegesis3 Christianity in Beth Qaṭraye4 Overview of Chapters1 Aḥob of Qatar1.1 Aḥob of Qatar’s Surviving Biographical Data1.2 Conclusion2 Aḥob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works2.1 Aḥob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works in the Syriac Manuscript Tradition2.2 Aḥob of Qatar’s Exegetical Works2.3 Conclusion3 Aḥob of Qatar and the East Syriac Exegetical Tradition (up to ca. 850)3.1 The Use of Aḥob of Qatar’s Cause of the Psalms in Nathniel of Shirzor’s Cause of the Psalms3.2 The Use of Aḥob of Qatar’s Exegesis in the Commentary on Genesis-Exodus 9:323.3 The Use of Aḥob of Qatar’s Exegesis in Theodore bar Koni’s Scholion3.4 The Use of Aḥob of Qatar’s Exegesis in the Denḥa-Grigor Commentary3.5 Conclusion4 Aḥob of Qatar and the East Syriac Exegetical Tradition (ca. 850–1439/1440)4.1 The Use of Aḥob of Qatar’s Exegesis in Ishoʿdad of Merv’s Old Testament Exegesis4.2 The Use of Aḥob of Qatar’s Exegesis in the Anonymous Commentary4.3 The Use of Aḥob of Qatar’s Exegesis in Ḥasan bar Bahlul’s Lexicon4.4 The Use of Aḥob of Qatar’s Exegesis in Isaac Shbadnaya’s Prose Commentary on His Poem on God’s Governance from ‘In the Beginning’ until Eternity4.5 Conclusion5 The Distinctiveness of Aḥob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works5.1 The Original Form of Aḥob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works5.2 The Original Purpose of Aḥob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works5.3 The Peshitta Old Testament of Aḥob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works5.4 The Sources of Aḥob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works5.5 The Christology of Aḥob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works5.6 The Polemics of Aḥob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works5.7 The Eschatology of Aḥob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works5.8 The Exegetical Distinctiveness of Aḥob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works5.9 ConclusionGeneral ConclusionAppendix. An Edition of the Introduction and Select Parts of Thirteen Psalms from the Denḥa-Grigor CommentaryBibliographyIndex of Biblical ReferencesGeneral Index