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Hunayn ibn Ishaq

faithful translator Hunayn ibn Ishaq promoted Galenic understanding

Cicero and Horace disparaged the faithful translator, a Jew. The eminent Christian Syriac / Arabic translator Hunayn ibn Ishaq faithfully translated Galen. … Read the post faithful translator Hunayn ibn Ishaq promoted Galenic understanding

Hanayn ibn Ishaq: disciple of Jesus and Galen

Providing respectable testimony to the relation of Jesus and Galen may have been a motivation for writing Hunayn’s autobiographical epistle. … Read the post Hanayn ibn Ishaq: disciple of Jesus and Galen

did Hunayn author his autobiographical epistle?

The evidence favors Hanayn’s authorship of his autobiographical epistle c. 860. The epistle survives only in ibn Abi Usaibia’s 13th-century text. … Read the post did Hunayn author his autobiographical epistle?

understanding the autobiographical epistle attributed to Hunayn

The Hunaynine epistle is best understood as a Pauline epistle with Hunayn as the famous and faithful Galenic-Christian disciple. … Read the post understanding the autobiographical epistle attributed to Hunayn