• Gregory Bar Hebraeus (Classical Syriac: ܓܪܝܓܘܪܝܘܣ ܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐ, b. 1226 - d. 30 July 1286), known by his Syriac ancestral surname as Barebraya or Barebroyo...
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  • correspondence, could mean "Goat-Herder" in Slavonic languages. According to Bar Hebraeus and the Chronicle of Michael the Syrian, the name Kazarig was later adopted...
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    Bar Hebraeus, Chronicon ecclesiasticum (ed. and tr. J.B. Abbeloos and T.J. Lamy, vol. 3, coll. 279-81). See Hunter (1991).[page needed] Bar Hebraeus Chron...
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  • brief notice in the Ecclesiastical Chronicle of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus (floruit 1280). The acts of a synod held by Ezekiel in 576 have also...
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    Artaxerxes II. In his Chronography, the 13th century Syriac historian Bar Hebraeus also identifies Ahasuerus as Artaxerxes II citing the sixth century AD...
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  • other works of Gregory Bar-Hebraeus.” Ed. and translated by F. S. Marsh, APA-Philo Press, 1927 Arthur Lincoln Frothingham, “Stephen bar Sudaili, The Syrian...
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    for a long time was based on the accounts of Syrian Orthodox bishop Bar Hebraeus who lived between 1226 and 1286 CE, who stated by the time of the destruction...
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    Josephus, the Jewish commentary Esther Rabbah and the Christian theologian Bar Hebraeus, as well as the Greek Septuagint translation of Esther, instead identify...
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    miraculously cured of leprosy by Mar Mattai. Bar Hebraeus hermitage which was occupied by Bar Hebraeus during his lifetime. The spy's hermitage which...
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  • of Laqabin are mentioned in the histories of Michael the Syrian and Bar Hebraeus and in other West Syriac sources. The last-known bishop of Laqabin, Timothy...
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  • Brief accounts of Ishoʿ bar Nun's patriarchate are given in the Ecclesiastical Chronicle of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus (floruit 1280) and in the...
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    who loaded the bronze onto 900 camels. The same story is recorded by Bar Hebraeus, writing in Syriac in the 13th century in Edessa (after the Arab pillage...
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  • of the world Jewish population in that era. The 13th-century author Bar Hebraeus gave a figure of 6,944,000 Jews in the Roman world; Salo Wittmayer Baron...
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  • native city. A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, often quoted by Bar Hebraeus, and most of it still extant in manuscript form; a treatise on predestination...
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    and Masudi's placement of events. The 13th century Syriac historian Bar-Hebraeus in his Chronography, also identifies Ahasuerus as Artaxerxes II citing...
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    Amitai-Preiss (2004), p. 57. Bar Hebraeus XI, 518 Amitai-Preiss (2004), p. 58. Amitai-Preiss (2004), p. 60. Bar Hebraeus XI, 520 Bar Hebraeus XI, 525 James (2019)...
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    perhaps near Assyria. Medieval scholars such as Michael the Syrian, Bar Hebraeus, and Agapius of Hierapolis noted that the prevailing view was the Hebrews...
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  • bishops of Gubos are mentioned either by Michael the Syrian or Bar Hebraeus, and Bar Hebraeus himself was bishop of Gubos from 1246 to 1255. By 1283, as a...
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    Judaism) Bar Ṣawma was born c. 1220 in or near modern-day Beijing, known then as Zhongdu, later as Khanbaliq under Mongol rule. According to Bar Hebraeus he...
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  • was Fatimid governor of the whole of Palestine. The Syrian chronicler Bar-Hebraeus refers to him as an Egyptian man. Usama ibn Munqidh's autobiography mentions...
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  • written by him have also survived. The life of Michael is recorded by Bar Hebraeus. He was born ca. 1126 in Melitene (today Malatya), the son of the Priest...
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  • revolt under Lukuas is told by Eusebius of Caesarea, Michael Syrus, Bar Hebraeus and Cassius Dio, with the latter giving him a quite different Greek name...
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  • of 1234, Bar-Hebraeus, and Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos give derivative accounts. Theophanes, Nikephoros, the Chronicle and Bar-Hebraeus conclude...
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  • John IV Saliba, who is believed to have adopted it in c. 1100, whereas Bar Hebraeus' Ecclesiastical History names Marutha of Tikrit as the first. A separate...
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    Yared Simon the Tanner Gregory of Narek Nerses IV Michael the Syrian Bar Hebraeus Tekle Haymanot Giyorgis of Segla Mar Thoma I Gregorios Abdal Jaleel Geevarghese...
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    38,000 to 47,500 respectively. In the 13th century, Christian writer Bar Hebraeus claimed that 6,944,000 Jews were counted in the Claudius census, which...
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  • Yared Simon the Tanner Gregory of Narek Nerses IV Michael the Syrian Bar Hebraeus Tekle Haymanot Giyorgis of Segla Mar Thoma I Gregorios Abdal Jaleel Geevarghese...
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    of at least 180,000 persons.[citation needed] The 13th-century author Bar Hebraeus gave a figure of 6,944,000 Jews in the Roman world. Salo Wittmayer Baron...
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  • Muslim literature from near that time like The Chronography of Bar Hebraeus By Bar Hebraeus [3] Archived 2013-10-24 at the Wayback Machine Tucker, William...
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    errors, especially the Syriac Chronicle of 813. While Michael the Syrian, Bar Hebraeus, Michael Psellos, and the Chronicle of 813 all record the events immediately...
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