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EVIDENCE RECORD · H09

Matti Moosa, The Maronites in History, pp. 11–13

Moosa reports an eleventh-century Maronite bishop's Christ-centered explanation of the name through the monastery Maran, alongside other accounts involving Marun.

Bibliographic details

Author / attribution
Matti Moosa
Work
The Maronites in History
Passage
Origin of the Term Maronite
Composition date
Original book edition: 1986
Edition
Gorgias Press facsimile reprint: 2005
Page / folio
Printed pp. 11–13 (owner-supplied image of p. 11)
Scope of the claim
Moosa reports an eleventh-century Christ-centered naming explanation attributed to Tuma of Kfartab; alternative versions exist.
Relationship to other sources
Secondary report of medieval writers; the original Ten Treatises witness was not inspected. Related linguistic context: H21.

Where to examine the source

Matti Moosa, The Maronites in History — official publisher ↗

Gorgias Press facsimile preview (printed pp. 11–13) ↗

Commentary and interpretation

What the book establishes. On printed page 11, Moosa reports that Tuma of Kfartab described the community name as stemming from a monastery called Maran, associated with Christ. Moosa also presents later Christ-centered explanations and another account deriving the monastery name from an ascetic called Marun. H21

This record documents Moosa's report of a medieval explanation. The original manuscript of Tuma's Ten Treatises has not been independently examined in this release. The original naming event and the separate origin of the Iberian term Marrano remain distinct questions.

This record provides source location and context, not certification of every interpretation.

Related witnesses

H21

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