Simēon

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/12995

An old man who, according to Luke 2, held the baby Jesus

Names

  • Armenian: Սիմէոն = Simēon 1
  • Syriac: ܫܡܥܘܢ = ShMʿWΝ 2

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Aṛak‘el Baghishets‘i.1 before 1453late 15th C15561957
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian2 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1H.S. Anasyan, ed., Haykakan Aghbyurnerĕ Byuzandiayi Ankman Masin (Yerevan: Haykakan SSṚ Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1957), pp. 64-77 [Armenian].
    • Simēon: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1453 (no. 2) [English].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 88 [Syriac].
    • Siméon le vieillard: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 128, 138 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, McKenzie Cady, and Jessica Mutter, “Simēon” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified November 7, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/12995.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; 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
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
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