Aretas

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/14946

King in 2 Corinthians 11:32-33

Names

  • Latin: Aretha 1
  • Syriac: ܐܪܐܛܘܣ = ʾRʾṬWS 2

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion1 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian2 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Aretha: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 4. [Latin].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 96 [Syriac].
    • Arétas: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 149 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Aretas” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14946.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Laurel Kenner: Wikipedia matching
  • Margaret Gaida: gender assignment and 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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