Abulfaraj

Abulfaraj (Lat. Abulfara-gius), called also Barhebraeus—as being of Jewish descent—was born in Armenia, 1226, and became distinguished for his knowledge of the Syriac, Arabic, and Greek languages, and of philosophy, theology, and medicine. At the age of twenty, he was made a bishop, and as Bishop of Aleppo rose to the highest dignity among the Jacobite Christians next to Patriarch. Of his numerous writings, the best known is a Chronicle, in Syriac, of universal history from Adam down to his own time. Among his theological writings is a commentary on the Syriac version of the Bible.