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Elisha

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/12494

ancient Israelite prophet

Names

  • Arabic: اليسع النبي = al-Yasaʿ al-Nabī 1
  • Latin: Eliseus 2
  • Latin: Heliseus 3-4
  • Syriac: ܐܠܝܫܥ = ʾLYShʿ 5

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion3 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce4 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Wilbrand of Oldenburg2 1211-1212c.122216th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian5 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 420 (5) 143 [Arabic].
  • 2Eliseus: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), II 1, 7. [Latin].
  • 3Heliseus: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), V 5, VI 3, VII 7 bis. 36. 46. 47; X 3. [Latin].
  • 4Heliseus: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), V 9. [Latin].
  • 5Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 43 [Syriac].
    • Élisée: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 69-71, 74; II, 77; III, 305 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Elisha” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/12494.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Margaret Gaida: matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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