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ECCHELLENSIS (or ECHELLENSIS), See also:ABRAHAM (d. 1664) , a learned Maronite, whose surname is derived from Eckel in See also:Syria, where he was See also:born towards the See also:close of the 16th See also:century. He was educated at the Maronite See also:college in See also:Rome, and, after taking his See also:doctor's degree in See also:theology and See also:philosophy, returned for a See also:time to his native See also:land. He then became See also:professor of Arabic and See also:Syriac in the college of the Propaganda at Rome. Called to See also:Paris in 164o to assist Le See also:Jay in the preparation of his polyglot See also:Bible, he contributed to that See also:work the Arabic and Latin versions of the See also:book of See also:Ruth and the Arabic version of the third book of See also:Maccabees. In 1646 he was appointed professor of Syriac and Arabic at the College de See also:France. Being invited by the See also:Congregation of the Propaganda to take See also:part in the preparation of an Arabic version of the Bible, Ecchellensis went again in 1652 or 1653 to Rome. He published several Latin See also:translations of Arabic See also:works, of which the most important was the Chronicon Orientale of Ibnar-Rahib (Paris, 1653), a See also:history of the patriarchs of. See also:Alexandria. He was engaged in an interesting controversy with See also:John See also:Selden as to the See also:historical grounds of See also:episcopacy, in the course of which he published his Eutychius vindicates, sive Responsio ad Seldeni Origines (Rome, 1661). Conjointly with Giovanni See also:Borelli he wrote a Latin See also:translation of the 5th, 6th and 7th books of the Conics of See also:Apollonius of See also:Perga (1661). He died at Rome in 1664.

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