• Bardaisan (11 July 154 – 222 AD; Syriac: ܒܪ ܕܝܨܢ, Bar Dayṣān; also Bardaiṣan), known in Arabic as ibn Dayṣān (Arabic: ابن ديصان) and in Latin as Bardesanes...
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    Carpocrates Marcosians Nicolaism Simonians Mandaeism Syrian-Egyptian Archontics Bardaisan Basilideans Hermeticism Ophites Sethianism Valentinianism Persian Manichaeism...
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  • centre from which Christianity spread to the rest of the Persian Empire. Bardaisan, writing about 196, speaks of Christians throughout Media, Parthia and...
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    W., ed. (1912). S. Ephraim's Prose Refutations of Mani, Marcion, and Bardaisan. Vol. 1. London: Text and Translation Society. Mitchell, Charles W.; Bevan...
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    identified by its opening line. All of these qālê are now lost. It seems that Bardaisan and Mani composed madrāšê, and Ephrem felt that the medium was a suitable...
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    believed that his Christian roots might have been influenced by Marcion and Bardaisan. Returning in 242, Mani presented himself to Shapur I, to whom he dedicated...
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    ISBN 978-0-415-11376-2. More significant than Bardaisan's conversion to Christianity was the conversion -reported by Bardaisan - of Abgar the Great himself." The...
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    between Bahman and his sister Homa. Eusebius cites the Gnostic theologian Bardaisan who stated that the Persians brought the practice with them wherever they...
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  • Constantinople from Patriarch Euzois to Patriarch Laurence. July 11 – Bardaisan, Syriac gnostic (d. 222) Euzois, bishop of Byzantium Ilseong, Korean ruler...
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    of Edessa on Islam". In Reinink, G. J.; Klugkist, A. C. (eds.). After Bardaisan: Studies on Continuity and Change in Syriac Christianity in Honour of...
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    the Book of Enoch literature), and by the Syriac dualist-Gnostic writer Bardaisan (who lived a generation before Mani). With the discovery of the Mani-Codex...
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    of Bardaisan of Mesopotamia, a sect of the second century deemed heretical by the Catholic Church, drew upon Chaldean astrology, to which Bardaisan's son...
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  • civilian to be launched into space via his Virgin Galactic spacecraft. 154 – Bardaisan, Syrian astrologer, scholar, and philosopher (d. 222) 1274 – Robert the...
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    cannot be proved that Abgar the Great adopted Christianity; but his friend Bardaiṣan was a heterodox Christian, and there was a church at Edessa in 201. It...
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    of Alexandria, and Jabril ibn Bukhtishu) and theology (such as Tatian, Bardaisan, Babai the Great, Nestorius, and Thomas of Marga) and the personal physicians...
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    15th century, with this page showing entries for Musanus, Modestus and Bardaisan. Author Jerome Original title De viris illustribus Translator Ernest Cushing...
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    century. Christianity is attested in Edessa in the 2nd century; the gnostic Bardaisan was a native of the city and a philosopher at its court. From 212 to 214...
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  • though there is a belief that it was composed by the Syriac gnostic Bardaisan from Edessa due to some parallels between his life and that of the hymn...
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    mother of Elagabalus (b. 180) Annia Faustina, Roman noblewoman and empress Bardaisan, Syriac scholar and philosopher (b. 154) Callixtus I, pope of the Catholic...
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  • disciples of Valentinus were Heracleon, Ptolemy, Marcus and possibly Bardaisan. Many of the writings of these Gnostics, and a large number of excerpts...
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  • developed than Aphrahat's, and because he is so insistent – in contrast to Bardaisan and other earlier, more dualistic Syriac writers – that the human person...
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  • van (1999). "Jacob of Edessa and the Early History of Edessa". After Bardaisan: Studies on Continuity and Change in Syriac Christianity. Louvain: Peeters...
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  • Carpocrates Marcosians Nicolaism Simonians Mandaeism Syrian-Egyptian Archontics Bardaisan Basilideans Hermeticism Ophites Sethianism Valentinianism Persian Manichaeism...
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  • numerous times, including in 204, 305, and 415 CE. The Syriac writer Bardaisan takes his name from the river. Procopius, de Aed. 2.7  This article incorporates...
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    the controversies of the third century CE, especially as a response to Bardaisan. Letters between Abgar V and the Roman Emperor Tiberius are also recorded...
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  • Countries (also known as the Dialogue on Fate) by the early Christian author Bardaisan of Edessa, the Syriac original of which was not discovered until the 19th...
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    ISBN 978-0-56714-887-2. G. J. Reinink; Alexander Cornelis Klugkist (January 1999). After Bardaisan: Studies on Continuity and Change in Syriac Christianity in Honour of...
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  • Carpocrates Marcosians Nicolaism Simonians Mandaeism Syrian-Egyptian Archontics Bardaisan Basilideans Hermeticism Ophites Sethianism Valentinianism Persian Manichaeism...
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    Manuscript of Jerome's De viris illustribus, the late 15th century, with a page showing entries for Musanus, Modestus and Bardaisan....
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    Coakley, ‘The patriarchal list of the Church of the East’, in After Bardaisan. Studies on continuity and change in Syriac Christianity in honour of...
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