Ramah of Benjamin (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/17966

A village north of Jerusalem

Names

  • Latin: Bael 1
  • Latin: Rama 2-3
  • Latin: Rama Beniamin 4
  • Syriac: ܪܡܬܐ = RMTʾ 5

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 2, 4 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Odoric of Pordenone 1, 3 1318-13301330c. 13501864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 5 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Bael: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), LXIV 1. [Latin].
  • 2Rama: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VII 30 passim. 49. [Latin].
  • 3Rama: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), LXIV 1. [Latin].
  • 4Rama Beniamin: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VII 50, VIII 1. [Latin].
  • 5Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 42 [Syriac].
    • Ramatha: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 66, 151 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Ramah of Benjamin” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/17966.

Additional credit information:

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