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In hagiography: Benjamin was a disciple of Mar Awgin. He travelled to Mount Izla and founded a monastery and school near Mardin. His vita may be a version of the life of Mar Miha.

Names

  • Benjamin
  • BENJAMIN1

Floruit

300-399

Death

460

Sex

male1

Notes

The legend of Benjamin was published in Syriac and translated into French by Scheil.3
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  • 1 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 89.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Jean Vincent Scheil, "La vie de Mar Benjamin. Texte syriaque." Zeitschrift für Assyriologie vol. 12 (1897)., p: 64-96.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: 178, 179.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961)., vol: II, p: 1222-24.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., “Benjamin” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1174.

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Benjamin.”, 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/1174.

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