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In hagiography: Shamuni, mother of the Seven Maccabean Martyrs was the biblical mother of the seven sons whose death is told in the book of 2 Maccabees. Although although unnamed in the biblical account, she was commemorated as a martyr in the Syriac tradition under the name Shamuni or Mary. In the Syriac account, she and her sons were martyred in Antioch in Syria.2

Names

  • Shamuni, mother of the Seven Maccabean Martyrs
  • ܡܪܝܡ2
  • Mariam the Maccabean woman who was called Shamuni2
  • Shamuni, mother of the Seven Maccabean Martyrs2
  • Shamuni, mother of the Seven Maccabean Martyrs2
  • Shmouni1
  • ܫܡܘܢܝ2

Sex

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Notes

In hagiography: Shamuni, mother of the Seven Maccabean Martyrs was the biblical mother of the seven sons whose death is told in the book of 2 Maccabees. Although although unnamed in the biblical account, she was commemorated as a martyr in the Syriac tradition under the name Shamuni or Mary. In the Syriac account, she and her sons were martyred in Antioch in Syria.2
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  • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 17434014767737747757771207126714151516170419941588158916615165171823. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Alphonse Mingana, Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts Now in the Possession of the Trustees of the Woodbrooke Settlement, Selly Oak, Birmingham, 3 vols., Woodbrooke Catalogues 1-3 (Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, 1933), vol: Icol: 1142-1143entry: Mingana 600 D. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Witold Witakowski, Mart(y) Shmuni, the Mother of the Maccabean Martyrs, in Syriac Tradition, in VI Symposium Syriacum, 1992: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Divinity, 30 August – 2 September 1992, ed. René Lavenant, Orientalia Christiana Analecta 247 (Roma: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 1994), 153–68, p: 153-168. 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., “Shamuni, mother of the Seven Maccabean Martyrs” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/2080.

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Shamuni, mother of the Seven Maccabean Martyrs.”, 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/2080.

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