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Herod the Great

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king of Judea

Names

  • Arabic: هارودس = Hārūdis 1
  • Armenian: Հերովթէս = Herovt‘ēs 2
  • Latin: Herodes Magnus 3
  • Latin: Herodes 4-6
  • Latin: Herodes Ascalonita 7
  • Syriac: ܐܝܪܘܕܝܣ = ʾYRWDYS 8

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Amir.2 1478147814781958
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion3-4, 7 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce5 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Wilbrand of Oldenburg6 1211-1212c.122216th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian8 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (5) 251 [Arabic].
  • 2L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 538 II: p. 425 [Armenian].
    • Herovt‘ēs: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1478 (no. 1) [English].
  • 3Herodes Magnus: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VII 53, IX 16, X 4. 5. [Latin].
  • 4Herodes: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VII 53, VIII 5, IX 13. [Latin].
  • 5Herodes: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), V 37. [Latin].
  • 6Herodes: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 19, 6. 8. [Latin].
  • 7Herodes Ascalonita: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), V 16. [Latin].
  • 8Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 87 [Syriac].
    • Hérode Ier: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 132, 134, 136, 137, 139, 140, 142, 143 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Herod the Great” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/12858.

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