Ahudemmeh - ܐܚܘܕܐܡܗ
http://syriaca.org/person/67
“Metropolitan ‘of the East’, known as the Apostle of
the Arabs.”1
Names
- ܐܚܘܕܐܡܗ
- ܐܚܘܕܡܐ12
- Ahudemmeh
- ܐܚܘܕܡܗ5
- ܡܪܝ ܐܚܘܕܐܡܗ4
- ܡܳܪܝ ܐܰܚܘܕܶܐܡܗ4
- مار احودامه3
- Ahoudemmeh
- Ahoudemmeh5
- Aḥūdemmeh
- AḤŪDEMMEH6
- Aḥudemmeh
- Ahudemmeh of Balad
- Aḥudemmeh of Balad1
- Mar Aḥudemeh2
- ʾAḥūdemmēh5
Floruit
mid-6th century
Birth
Balad
Notes
“Metropolitan ‘of the East’, known as the Apostle of
the Arabs.”1
In hagiography: Aḥūdemmeh was Bishop of
Beth ʿArbaye and Catholicos of the Syrian Orthodox Church in the Sasanian
Empire. Aḥūdemmeh also converted tribes of Arabs and died in prison.
“Ahudemmeh was a miaphysite bishop in Persian Mesopotamia. He was consecrated, towards the end of the 550s, by Jacob Burd'oyo. Known as the 'apostle of the Arabs', he founded many churches and monasteries and spread miaphysite Christianity in regions that had been traditionally held by the dyophysite Church of the East. In the mid-570s, he was martyred on the orders of Khosrow because he had baptised one of the king's sons. However, Khosrow had been well inclined towards him previously, as is recorded in Joh. Eph., EH 6.20. The king hosted religious disputations between Ahudemmeh and the katholikos of the Church of the East, probably Joseph, and declared Ahudemmeh as the victor.”13
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- 1 S. P. Brock,Aḥudemmeh of Balad,inThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 13.
- 2 Ignatius Aphram Barsoum,The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd revised (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2003), entry: 62, p: 299.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and اغناطيوس افرام الاول برصوم,كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, الطبعة الرابعة4th ed. (Holland: مطبعة ابن العبري بدير مار افرام السريانيBar Hebraeus
Verlag, 1987), p: 259.
- 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and ܕܒܝܬ ܒܪܨܘܡܐܝܓܢܐܛܝܘܣ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܩܕܡܝܐ, ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ
ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani and ܕܘܠܒܐܢܝܦܝܠܠܘܟܣܝܢܘܣ
ܝܘܚܢܢ, ܚܬܳܡܳܐ ܬܪܰܝܳܢܳܐ2nd ed. (Holland: ܡܛܒܥܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐBar Hebraeus Verlag,
1991), p: 285.
- 5 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 474.
- 6 Jean-Maurice Fiey,Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 36.
- 7 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium], 2 vols. (Roma: Città nuova, 1998), vol: I, p: 73-74.
- 8 Anton Baumstark,Geschichte Der Syrischen Literatur, Mit Ausschluss Der Christlich-Palästinensischen
Texte (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1922), p: 178.
- 9 Ignatius Ortiz de Urbina,Patrologia Syriaca, Altera editio emendata et aucta (Romae: Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum,
1965), section: 116.
- 10 J.-B. Chabot,Littérature Syriaque, Bibliothèque Catholique Des Sciences Religieuses (Librairie Bloud & Gay, 1934), p: 77.
- 11 Sebastian P. Brock,A Brief Outline of Syriac Literature, Mōrān ’Eth’ō 9 (Baker Hill, Kottayam: St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute,
1997), p: 38.
- 12 Ernest Walter Brooks,Iohannis Ephesini Historiae Ecclesiasticae Pars Tertia, 2 vols., CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935), p: 317, chapter: 3.6.20.
- 13 Oliver Nicholson,The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), p: 36-37.
- 14 Ernest Walter Brooks,Iohannis Ephesini Historiae Ecclesiasticae Pars Tertia, 2 vols., CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935), p: 317.
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- Data from John of Ephesus added by Silvio Roggo
- 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
- 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
- Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
- Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne
- Editing, document design, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
- Matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
- GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
- Editing, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Syriac name entry by Robert Aydin
- Arabic name entry by Jad Kaado
- 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
- Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts and addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH by Nathan P. Gibson