Paul de Callinicum was bishop of this city of Syria (now Ar-Raqqa) until his deposition in 518, and a tenant of the Monophysite party of Severus of Antioch. After his deposition, due, like that of Severus, to the advent of the Emperor Justin I, he retired to Edessa, where he indulged, until April 528, the translation into Syriac of many writings of Severus , originally written in Greek. This work is very important historically, because the original Greek version of the work of Severus is almost entirely lost, while the translations of Paul are all preserved (but largely unpublished). Even if some texts (like the cathedral homilies) had other translators in Syriac (notably Jacques d'Edessa), a large part of the work only came to us in Paul's version (in particular many letters, the treated against Julius of Halicarnassus, John the Grammarian of Caesarea and Serge the Grammarian, and a treaty against the Manicheans). It is also in these translations that we find what remains of the writings of Julian of Halicarnassus: both the passages quoted by Severus, and three letters translated integrally. At the beginning of the translation of the anti-Julianist treatises of Severus is an (unpublished) dissertation on the concept of "corruption" (φθορά) which would be an original text of Paul, but the attribution is totally uncertain. Bibliography edit code
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