{"collection":"Christian Texts","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_chr_bb_bbpref_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_chr_bb_bbpref_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_chr_bb_bbpref_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/bb/bbpref.htm","summary":"OF the author of 'the Book of the Bee,' the bishop Shel\u00eam\u00f4n or Solomon, but very little is known. He was a native of Khil\u00e2t or Akhl\u00e2t (in Armenia, at the western end of lake V\u00e2n), and by religious profession a Nestorian. He became metropolitan bishop of al-Basra (in al-`Ir\u00e2k, on the right bank of the united streams of the Tigris and Euphrates) about A.D.","tags":["Nestorian Literature","Syriac Christianity","The Bee"],"text":null,"title":"The Book of the Bee - Preface","tradition":"Christian Texts","translated_text":null,"word_count":2252}