ʿAbdelmasih — <foreign xml:lang="syr">ܥܒܕܐܠܡܣܝܚ</foreign> Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal The International Balzan Prize Foundation The National Endowment for the Humanities Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent David A. Michelson James E. Walters Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent Data architecture and encoding by David A. Michelson Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo Editing by James E. Walters Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal http://syriaca.org/person/1102/tei

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Significant updates to syriacaAll and syriacaPersons schemas have required updates to data and fixing of errors in the data. The most significant updates were to the relation, status, and seriesStmt elements and to the @ana att on person and personGrp. Major updates to data model in conjunction with schema work requiring some updates to data as well. CHANGED: Implemented July 2020 batch changes, see https://github.com/srophe/srophe-app-data/issues/878. Update persName texts nodes from new headwords. Add bibl ptr elements. Split names in authors into forename and surname. Change: tagged abstract for persons, places, titles and edited the "en" persNames Added half-ring character for ayin in headword CHANGED: Corrected swapped source attributes for data from Fiey and Zanetti Move headword attribute from Gedesh to first English name. Added attestation for with related works CREATED: person ܥܒܕܐܠܡܣܝܚ ʿAbdelmasiḥ ʿAbdelmasih Abd al-Masih ʾAbdelmasīḥ Abdalmasih ABD AL-MASİḤ ('ABDA, CHRISTODULE) http://syriaca.org/person/1102 10 ʿAbdelmasiḥ was a Jewish shepherd boy (formally known as Aser) who lived near Sinjar in the Persian Empire. He converted to Christianity and pierced his ear to put on an earring, apparently the sign of slavery. He was martyred by his father. The primary texts (Syriac, Armenien, Arabic) and the studies are indicated by Fiey. 390 male Martyr Saint The saint is venerated on 27 June (27 Ḥaziran) by Syr. (BHO). Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca 9 1948 Saints Syriaques ABD AL-MASİḤ ('ABDA, CHRISTODULE) 10 J. .M. Fiey Le Muséon 205-23 M. Japundžić BS I 48-49 J. M. Fiey Hagiographie 461-62