Theodora, Roman empress — <foreign xml:lang="syr">ܡܠܟܬܐ ܬܐܘܕܘܪܐ</foreign> Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The National Endowment for the Humanities The International Balzan Prize Foundation Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent David A. Michelson Nathan P. Gibson James E. Walters Thomas A. Carlson Silvio Roggo Data from John of Ephesus added by Silvio Roggo Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent Editing, document design, data architecture, encoding, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts, addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH, matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, data merging, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters Editing, Syriac name entry, Arabic name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo Syriac name entry by Robert Aydin Normalization of GEDSH dates and entry matching with viaf.org records by Alex Vawter Editorial oversight for GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry, and proofreading by Christopher Johnson GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry and proofreading by the Syriac Research Group, University of Alabama Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal http://syriaca.org/person/779/tei

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2024-02-16-06:00 The Syriac Biographical Dictionary Nathan P. Gibson David A. Michelson Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent Daniel L. Schwartz William L. Potter Daniel L. Schwartz http://syriaca.org/persons A Guide to John of Ephesus Silvio Roggo,2023-present. http://syriaca.org/johnofephesus Gateway to the Syriac Saints Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent http://syriaca.org/saints Qadishe: A Guide to the Syriac Saints Will Potter David A. Michelson Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent I http://syriaca.org/q Prosopography to John of Ephesus’s Ecclesiastical History Silvio Roggo,2023-present. IV http://syriaca.org/johnofephesus/persons

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ADDED: John of Ephesus Ecclesiastical History data Significant updates to syriacaAll and syriacaPersons schemas have required updates to data and fixing of errors in the data. The most significant updates were to the relation, status, and seriesStmt elements and to the @ana att on person and personGrp. Major updates to data model in conjunction with schema work requiring some updates to data as well. CHANGED: Implemented July 2020 batch changes, see https://github.com/srophe/srophe-app-data/issues/878. Add relations and attestations for saints-overlap. Update persName texts nodes from new headwords. Split names in authors into forename and surname. Move headword attribute from Gedesh to first English name. Merged in data from [duplicate record with same URI]. CREATED: person [duplicate record with same URI] ADDED: Renumbered bibl xml:id attributes and source references to be sequential. ADDED: Abstracts, citation, additional names and confessions from GEDSH. ADDED: syriaca-computed-end for elements with date attributes CREATED: person Theodora (Empress) Theodora, Roman empress القيصرة ثاودورة ܡܠܟܬܐ ܬܐܘܕܘܪܐ ܡܰܠܟܬܐ ܬܶܐܘܳܕܳܘܪܰܐ Theodora ܬܐܕܘܪܐ Tēʾōḏōrā Tēʾōḏōrā Théodora Theodora, Roman empress ܡܠܟܬܐ http://syriaca.org/person/779 http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/SRP|person_779 http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82-260537 http://viaf.org/viaf/25968250 http://viaf.org/viaf/76289030 http://viaf.org/viaf/98257930 http://viaf.org/viaf/84989394 http://viaf.org/viaf/221767793 http://viaf.org/viaf/228961108 http://www.csc.org.il/db/browse.aspx?db=SB&sL=T&sK=Theodora&sT=keywords http://syriaca.org/johnofephesus/persons/779 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodora_(wife_of_Justinian_I) Raised as a child acrobat in the circus, Theodora married the future emperor Justinian I in 523. Before her rise to the throne as the wife of emperor Justinian, Theodora was had been an actress, a profession which gave rise to rumours that she had been a prostitute. John of Ephesus remembers Theodora fondly because she protected a large number of miaphysite monks and clerics in Constantinople until her death in 548. 527-548 0548-06-28 548 female Empress Syrian Orthodox Saint S. A. Harvey Theodora (Empress) The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage 401 The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences 300 كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية 261 ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ 287 A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity Theodora Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca 1054 9; 67; 70; 72; 183; 187; 233; 253 3.1.10; 3.2.9; 3.2.10; 3.2.11; 3.4.6; 3.4.8; 3.4.49; 3.5.1 Theodora 1 1240-1241 1240-1241 9; 67; 70; 72; 183; 187; 233; 253