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    Gabriel Sionita (Syriac: Jibrā'īl aṣ-Ṣahyūnī; 1577 at Ehden in Lebanon – 1648 in Paris) was a learned Maronite priest, famous for his role in the publication...
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    Christianae fidei cultores, which was published in Arabic and Latin by Gabriel Sionita in 1630 represents a covenant concluded between Muhammad and the Christians...
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    translation from the original Arabic was into Latin. The Maronites Gabriel Sionita and Joannes Hesronita translated an abridged version of the text which...
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    In 1645, the editio princeps of the Old Testament was published by Gabriel Sionita for the Paris Polyglot, and in 1657 the whole Peshitta was included...
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    wide popularity and use throughout the world. The medieval scholar Gabriel Sionita translated the book into Latin and printed it in Paris in 1619. The...
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  • Shylock, the main character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Gabriel Sionita, theologian famous for his role in the publication of the 1645 Parisian...
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    Lebanese Maronite priests, former students of the Maronite College, Gabriel Sionita (Jibrā'īl aṣ-Ṣahyūnī) and Victor Scialac (Naṣrallāh Shalaq al-'Āqūrī)...
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    embraces the first printed texts of the Syriac Old Testament (edited by Gabriel Sionita, a Maronite, but the Book of Ruth by Abraham Ecchellensis, also a Maronite)...
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  • areas, and a diagram of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Gabriel Sionita. Gabriel Sionita (1577–1648), a Lebanese Maronite orientalist and author. Geographia...
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    Jean-Baptiste Say Victor Scialac Jean-Pierre Serre François Simiand Gabriel Sionita André Vaillant Paul Valéry François Vatable Jean-Pierre Vernant Claire...
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  • writer and journalist Avraham Sinai (born 1962) – religious writer Gabriel Sionita (1577–1648) – Maronite writer and publisher Amine Takiedine (1884–1937)...
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  • member of the Australian band The Janoskians Jibrail as-Sahyuni or Gabriel Sionita (1577–1648), Maronite and translator Arabic scholar Salim Sahyouni...
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  • former students of the Maronite College in Rome, and together with Gabriel Sionita (Jibrā'īl aṣ-Ṣahyūnī) was recruited by François Savary de Brèves for...
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  • Palestinæ (1867) by Swiss orientalist Titus Tobler (1806–1877). Gabriel Sionita. Gabriel Sionita (1577–1648), a Lebanese Maronite orientalist and author. Geographia...
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    Lebanese Maronite priests, former students of the Maronite College, Gabriel Sionita (Jibrā'īl aṣ-Ṣahyūnī) and Victor Scialac (Naṣrallāh Shalaq al-'Āqūrī)...
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    embraces the first printed texts of the Syriac Old Testament edited by Gabriel Sionita, the Book of Ruth by Abraham Ecchellensis, also a Maronite, the Samaritan...
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  • universal geography Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, translated by Lebanese Maronite Gabriel Sionita (1577–1648). (Runc. Vol III, pp. 354n, 498) Yaqut al-Hamawi. Yaqut...
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  • Between 1648 and 1656 he worked, beside his nephew and successor Gabriel Sionita, as professor of Arabic at the Collège de France. On 25 January 1658...
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  • for the production in Italy. The issue has long been little known. Gabriel Sionita asserts (Syrian-Latin, Paris, 1625) in his preface to his bilingual...
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  • 1626) unknown dates Richard Sibbes, English theologian (died 1635) Gabriel Sionita, Lebanese-born Maronite Bible translator (died 1648) Samuel Ward, English...
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  • contained the first printed texts of the Syriac Old Testament edited by Gabriel Sionita, a Maronite (with the exception of the Book of Ruth by Abraham Ecchellensis...
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  • physician and professor of Arabic at the Collège de France, and then under Gabriel Sionita, a Maronite who arrived in Paris in 1614 and who succeeded Hubert....
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  • Morocco, from 1588 to 1598. He was succeeded in the teaching position by Gabriel Sionita, who was active from 1614 to 1648. While in France in 1611, Hubert...
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