Talk:Isaac the Syrian

message: This article lacks citations and also treats unverifiable "facts" as truth.  It is also clear that it was written by someone who has not studied Isaac extensively.  When I get the chance, I'll edit/rewrite the article.Grailknighthero (talk) 14:14, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: He appears to be an Orthodox saint. Check out the skete's website at . Carolynparrishfan 02:14, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
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message: St. Isaac THE SYRIAN is venerated in all Eastern Orthodox Churches. We never refer to him as "of Nineveh" - Also, there is no source provided, nor none I can find in any materials related to this saint which even remotely suggest that he was Nestorian, so unless you can source it, that language that weasel-words him in to "maybe" "possibly" being nestorian should be removed. A Nestorian wouldn't be venerated by all The Orthodox (& Roman Catholic) churches.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.51.138.62 (talk) 03:50, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
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message: I've removed a bunch of Bahrain and Qatar cats. Being possibly born in that region more that a thousand years ago doesn't imply that he can be considered Bahraini. --Rafy talk 08:08, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Saying that Isaac was Bahrani is as anachronic as claiming that Jesus was Palestinian of that Muhammad was Saudi. Please Ashraf discus you're rationale before including the cat.--Rafy talk 11:50, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bahrain and Qatar 

message: As of now, Isaac's exact date of birth and death are unknown. His birth place is known, but I could find only two references stating his date of birth - one states it as 613, and the other states it as 640. I am in a conundrum as to which of them should be included, or if any of them should be included at all. Furthermore, his date of death seems to be a wild guess - but I was able to find multiple (at least 3) notable sources stating his date of death as 700, so it seems to be a generally accepted date.
On another note, his place of death appears to somewhere in Iran. The Quotable Saint and The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature - Volume 2 states it as Rabban Shabur. This makes me wonder why it is currently listed as Nineveh. Elspamo4 (talk) 12:46, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth and death 

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:Isaac of Nineveh →  – While Isaac is known with both the titles "of Nineveh" and "the Syrian", he is better known as "The Syrian" both in old and modern times. There is no one place I can cite for this, but any small amount of research into him will make this obvious. Swehlam (talk) 01:15, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
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message: I've missed the name change conversation, but it'll be worth bearing in mind should it come up for discussion again that (a) Isaac is more commonly referred to as 'Isaac of Nineveh' than 'Isaac the Syrian' in academic literature, especially in the literature on him that's begun to proliferate since the 1980s (e.g. books by Sebastian Brock (1995 and 2022), Sabino Chialà (2002, in Italian), Patrik Hagman (2010), Nestor Kavvadas (2015, in German), Jason Scully (2017), Benedict Vesa (2018), and Valentina Duca (2023); counterexamples such as Hilarion Alfeyev (2015, ed.) and Mary Hansbury (2016) are overall fewer); and (b) 'Isaac the Syrian' is more ambiguous than 'Isaac of Nineveh', since there are at least two other Isaacs who are sometimes referred to as 'Isaac the Syrian', namely Isaac of Antioch (e.g. by Brian Daley, The Hope of the Early Church (1991) p. 174) and Isaac of Spoleto. 131.111.5.135 (talk) 15:01, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
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