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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

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.
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    • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 1811200415461783126565. 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, 7 vols. (Paris / Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1890), vol: IIp: 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, 2 vols. (Mossoul: Imprimerie des pères dominicains, 1900), vol: Ip: 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: VIcol: 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, 3 vols., Recherches Publiées Sous La Direction de l’lnstitut de Lettres Orientales de Beyrouth 22, 34, 42 (Beyrouth: Imprimerie catholique, 1965), vol: IIp: 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 Syriaca: Zur Geschichte, Theologie, Liturgie Und Gegenwartslage Der Syrischen Kirchen. 2. Deutsches Syrologen-Symposium (Juli 2000, Wittenberg), ed. Martin Tamcke, Studien Zur Orientalischen Kirchengeschichte 17 (Münster: LIT, 2002), 185–96, 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