Yahbalaha I - ܝܗܒܐܠܗܐ ܩܕܡܝܐ

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Bp. of Seleucia-Ctesiphon and Cath. When Yahbalaha was elected, the Christians in the Persian Empire enjoyed the freedom accorded to them by Emperor Yazdgard I and formally laid down in the Synod of Isḥaq (410).1

Names

  • ܝܗܒܐܠܗܐ ܩܕܡܝܐ
  • Yahbalaha I
  • ܝܗܒܐܠܗܐ3
  • Katholikos Jahb(h)allàhā I
  • Yahballaha3
  • Ya(h)balāhā
  • Ya(h)ḇallāhā3
  • Katholikos Jahb(h)allàhā I.4
  • Yahbalaha I1, 10

Descriptions

In hagiography:

Notes

Bp. of Seleucia-Ctesiphon and Cath. When Yahbalaha was elected, the Christians in the Persian Empire enjoyed the freedom accorded to them by Emperor Yazdgard I and formally laid down in the Synod of Isḥaq (410).1
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Works Cited

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  • 1 L. Van Rompay, "Yahbalaha I." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), pp: 429.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Yahbalaha I.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 866.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Anton Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur mit Ausschluß der christlich-palästinensischen Texte (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Webers Verlag Dr. jur. Albert Ahn, 1922), pp: 55.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Archive.org Bibliographic record

How to Cite This Entry

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Yahbalaha I — ܝܗܒܐܠܗܐ ܩܕܡܝܐ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/809.

Bibliography:

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Yahbalaha I — ܝܗܒܐܠܗܐ ܩܕܡܝܐ .”, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, David A. Michelson and Nathan P. Gibson. Vol. 1 of The Syriac Biographical Dictionary, edited by David A. Michelson. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/809.

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Entry Title: Yahbalaha I — ܝܗܒܐܠܗܐ ܩܕܡܝܐ

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  • Data from Macuch, Abuna, De Urbina, Duval, Assemani (vols. 1-2), Chabot, Wright, and Brock collected, verified, reconciled, and entered by Kristian Heal
  • German data entry by Samer Khader
  • Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
  • Editing, document design, data architecture, encoding, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
  • Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts, addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH, matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, data merging, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
  • Editing, Syriac name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
  • Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo
  • Syriac name entry by Robert Aydin
  • Normalization of GEDSH dates and entry matching with viaf.org records by Alex Vawter
  • Editorial oversight for GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry, and proofreading by Christopher Johnson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry and proofreading by the Syriac Research Group, University of Alabama
  • Entries adapted from the work of Jean Maurice Fiey
  • Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
  • Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne

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