Agapius of Hierapolis, also called Maḥbūb ibn Qusṭanṭīn (died after 942), was a Melkite Christian historian and the bishop of Manbij. He wrote a universal...

Father, Bishop of Hierapolis (modern Pamukkale, Turkey), and author who lived c. 60 – c. 130 AD He wrote the Exposition of the Sayings of the Lord (Greek:...

Agapius may refer to: Agapius, traditionally one of the companions of Aphrodisius Agapius of Spain (died 259), Christian martyr, died at Citra Agapius...

Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History, 3.39.16 Agapius of Hierapolis, Universal History, Year 12 of Trajan [110AD] Vardan Areveltsi, Explanations of Holy Scripture...

considered the name of an area, perhaps near Assyria. Medieval scholars such as Michael the Syrian, Bar Hebraeus, and Agapius of Hierapolis noted that the...

According to Agapius of Hierapolis he appeared in the 15th year of Trajan reign (113 AD). He is believed to have written over two dozen books of commentary...

anything of value for Jesus research". In 1971, a 10th-century Arabic version of the Testimonium from the chronicle of Agapius of Hierapolis was brought...

several legendary elements. The Syriac language accounts are based on Agapius of Hierapolis (died 942), who likely drew from the same primary source as Theophanes...

during one of his forces' Anatolian campaigns. Based on the histories of al-Tabari (d. 923) and Agapius of Hierapolis (d. 941), the first raid of Mu'awiya's...

al-Hajjaj, who could not prevent the sacking of Ardabil. The 10th-century historian Agapius of Hierapolis reports that the Khazars took as many as 40,000...

Christian Arab Agapius of Hierapolis all likely drew their information from a common source, probably the 8th-century historian Theophilos of Edessa. The...

suzerainty of the Arabs. Sergius' defection during the Arab–Byzantine wars is reported by Theophilus of Edessa and Agapius of Hierapolis. A name of Sergius'...

(arch)diocese of Hierapolis in Syria was the metropolitan bishopric of the ecclesiastical province of the Euphratensis. It was based in the city of Hierapolis in...

was roughly contemporary with the historian Agapius of Hierapolis, although neither displays knowledge of the other. He did not know Greek, but was able...

of the Byzantine province of Byzacena. Gregory confronted the Arabs on their return at Sufetula, but was defeated and killed. Agapius of Hierapolis and...

Stephanus, some falsely, most written at Constantinople. Agapius of Hierapolis, writing of the treaty between Heraclius and the Persian king Kavad II...

10th-century Arabic Christian chronicler Agapius of Hierapolis. The home of the Mardaites, a Christian people of unclear ethnic origins, known in Arabic...

of the Byzantine province of Byzacena. Gregory confronted the Arabs on their return at Sufetula, but was defeated and killed. Agapius of Hierapolis and...

630s. Agapius of Hierapolis used the term “wilderness of Phoenicia” to refer to the steppe between Emesa and Palmyra, in the former province of Lebanese...

contrast to al-Baladhuri's passive account of Iyad's capture of Dara, 10th-century historian Agapius of Hierapolis wrote that many were slain on both sides...

texts Christian Arabic texts Agapius of Hierapolis Eutychius of Alexandria Chronicle of Siirt History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria Jewish texts Samaritan...

Busr led a number of campaigns against the Byzantine Empire after his stint in Basra. In the chronicle of Agapius of Hierapolis (d. 942), Busr defeated...

source of Byzantine politics of the 10th century. (MGH Scriptores rer. Germ., XLI, MPL 136, Runc. Vol I, pp. 88n, 346) Agapius of Hierapolis. Agapius of Hierapolis...

(7th-Century), Jacob of Edessa's Chronicle (8th-Century), in the Chronicle of Seert (9th-Century ?), in Agapius of Hierapolis's Kitab al-'Unwan (10th-Century)...

only minimal signs of damage. Agapius of Hierapolis claimed the number of casualties exceeded 100,000, while in the Chronicle of 1234, there were 800...

of Tel Mahre (818–45) cited it on several occasions in his own world history, the Annals. The tenth-century Melkite historian Agapius of Hierapolis also...

Testimonium Flavianum by Josephus due to Agapius of Hierapolis. Pines also discovered a 12th-century Syriac version of Josephus by Michael the Syrian. Leading...

histories of Zacharias Rhetor and the Chronicle of Zuqnin. The story then makes its first appearance in Arabic in the tenth-century works of Agapius of Hierapolis...

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Archeparchy of Homs), Hierapolis in Syria, Myra, Tarsus Two Episcopal Titular bishoprics: Jabrud (united with current Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Homs)...