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Manahen. Manaen praying and fasting with Barnabas, Simeon Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, and Paul. illustrated by Jim Padgett. Manahen / ˈmæniən / (also Manaen or Menachem) was a teacher in the first century Christian Church at Antioch who had been 'brought up' (Greek: σύντροφος, syntrophos, Vulgate: collactaneus) with Herod Antipas. [1]
Simon Niger is a person in the Book of Acts in the New Testament. He is mentioned in Acts 13:1 as being one of the "prophets and teachers" in the church of Antioch: In the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. [1] The ...
Antiochian Greek Christians (also known as Rūm) are an ethnoreligious Eastern Christian group native to the Levant. [6] [7] They are either members of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch or the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, and they have ancient roots in what is now Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, the southern Turkish province of Hatay, which includes the city of Antakya (ancient Antioch ...
In the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. — Acts 13:1, NIV The account in Acts 13 states that the group of prophets and teachers prayed and fasted , and were inspired to commission Barnabas and Paul to undertake ...
The Church of Antioch (Arabic: كنيسة أنطاكية, romanized: kánīsa ʾanṭākiya, pronounced [ka.niː.sa ʔan.tˤaː.ki.ja]) was the first of the five major churches of the early pentarchy in Christianity, with its primary seat in the ancient Greek city of Antioch (present-day Antakya, Turkey). The earliest record of the church of ...
Church of Cassian. The Church of Cassian (arab. al-Qusyan), also called church of St. Peter (gr. Hagios Petros), was the cathedral church of Antioch to the Melkite and Latin patriarch during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. [1] The church is not to be mistaken with the cave church called St. Peter. [2]
He translated it into Judeo-Arabic in the 9th century. [2] He goes so far as to cite verse 23 as a proof text in his work Sefer HaGalui. Likely due to Saadia Gaon's influence, the Megillat Antiochus found widespread use by Jewish communities across Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Yemen and Persia. [2]
Judas Iscariot. Yuḥanna (يُوحَنَّا) Christian Arabic version of the name of John (as opposed to the Islamic Arabic term Yaḥya يَحْيَى) Z. Zabūr (زَبُور) The Psalms, in Islam referred to as Zabur, a holy book revealed by God to David. The Christian term is Mazāmīr مزامير; singular mazmūr مزمور.