• Bardaisan (redirect from Bardesanes)
    Bardaiṣan), known in Arabic as ibn Dayṣān (Arabic: ابن ديصان) and in Latin as Bardesanes, was a Syriac-speaking Assyrian Christian writer and teacher with a gnostic...
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  • d' Qudshā, Bardesanes is said to have assigned the creation of the world. Though much still remains dark as to the doctrine of Bardesanes we cannot nevertheless...
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    According to the fifth-century Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi, Bardesanes of Edessa (AD 154–222), who founded the Gnostic current of the Bardaisanites...
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  • Ohrmazddadan Adurfarnbag Farroxzadan Adurbad Emedan Avesta Gathas Anacharsis Bardesanes Mani (c. 216 – 276 CE) Ammo Mazdak the Elder Mazdak (died c. 524 or 528...
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    Palut addressed the increasingly Gnostic tendencies that the churchman Bardesanes was introducing to its Christian community. He ordained Pantaenus as a...
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  • In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume III/7: Banān–Bardesanes. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 693–694. ISBN 978-0-71009-119-2...
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    "Barkīāroq". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume III/8: Bardesanes–Bayhaqī, Ẓahīr-al-Dīn. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp...
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    Mani (3rd century) Gospel of Apelles (mid–late 2nd century) Gospel of Bardesanes (late 2nd–early 3rd century) Gospel of Basilides (mid-2nd century) Gospel...
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    Book IV [1]. He says his information was obtained from "the Babylonian Bardesanes, who lived in the times of our fathers, and was familiar with those Indians...
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    translations of sections from the Bible. The prolific Syrian scholar Bardesanes knew Greek and sent his son for schooling in Athens, but chose to write...
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