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Behnam - ܒܗܢܡ

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Behnām and his sister Sara were high-born Christian martyrs who were the children of Sennacherib. They converted to Christianity through a monk, Mattai, and were killed by their father. Their father later repented and became a Christian and with his wife Queen Shirin. Sennacherib and Shirin built monasteries for Mar Mattai and Abraham near Mosul.

Names

  • ܒܗܢܡ1
  • Behnam
  • Behnām
  • Behnam1
  • Behnam and his sister sarah
  • BEHNĀM et sa soeur SARĀH2
  • Bēhnām1
  • Mar Behnam10

Floruit

300-400

Sex

male2

Notes

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Works Cited

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  • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca., entry: 1811, 2004, 1546, 1783, 1265, 65.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 86.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Paulus Bedjan, Acta martyrum et sanctorum (Paris / Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1890-1897), vol: II, p: 397-441.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Paul Peeters, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 177.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Johann Georg Ernst Hoffmann, Auszüge aus syrischen Akten persischer Märtyrer übersetzt und durch Untersuchungen zur historischen Topographie erläutert, Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 7.3 (Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1880), p: 17-19.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Addai Scher, Kitāb sīrat ’ašhar šuhadā’ al-Mašriq al-qiddisīn (Mossoul: Imprimerie des pères dominicains, 1900-1906)., vol: I, p: 291-306.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 Alfred Baudrillart et al., Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1912)., vol: VI, col: col. 477.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 8 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Assyrie chrétienne. Contribution à l’étude de l’histoire et de la géographie ecclésiastiques et monastiques du nord de I’Iraq, Recherches publiées sous la direction de l’lnstitut de lettres orientales de Beyrouth 22, 34, 42 (Beyrouth: Imprimerie catholique, 1965, 1968), vol: II, p: 565-613.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 9 Helen Younansardaroud, "Die Legende von Mâr Behnâm." in Martin Tamcke (ed.), Syriaca: Zur Geschichte, Theologie, Liturgie und Gegenwartslage der syrischen Kirchen. 2. Deutsches Syrologen-Symposium (Juli 2000, Wittenberg), Studien zur Orientalischen Kirchengeschichte 17 (Münster: LIT, 2002), p: 185-96.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 10 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013)., entry: Mar Behnam.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Behnam — ܒܗܢܡ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1171.

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Behnam — ܒܗܢܡ .”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1171.

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