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Sisera

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Canaanite army commander mentioned in Judges 4-5

Names

  • Latin: Sisara 1
  • Syriac: ܣܝܣܪܐ = SYSRʾ 2

Attributes

  • Male

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

Sources

  • 1Sisara: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), IV 3. 6, VI 9, VII 1. 49. [Latin].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 31 [Syriac].
    • Sisara: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 50 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Sisera” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/15073.

Additional credit information:

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