Name(s):
- John, son of Abba Moses (يوحنّا ابن ابّا موسيس, yūḥannā ibn abbā mūsīs)
- John (يوحنّا, yūḥannā)
Date:
8th c.
Confession:
- Christian (Coptic)
Remarks:
John, son of Abba Moses, is the author of the original Coptic text of the Lives 43 (Alexander II, 705-730) to 46 (Michael I, 744-768) of the History of the patriarchs of Alexandria, and of a separate, longer biography of patriarch Michael I, to whom he was personally linked. He is called John I by Johnson (1977) and Den Heijer (1989) to distinguish him from the homonymous author of the Lives 47-55, ‘John II’ (= John, son of Joseph).