Adiabene

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Map showing kingdoms of Corduene and Adiabene in the first centuries CE.
The blue line shows the expedition and then retreat of the Ten Thousand through Corduene in 401 BCE.

Adiabene was an ancient kingdom in Mesopotamia with its capital at Arbela. Its rulers converted to Judaism in the 1st Century.[link]. The Queen of Adiabene at the time of the conversion to Judaism, Queen Heleni, moved to Jerusalem, and built palaces for herself and her son, King Monbaz at the northern part of the city of David, south of the Temple Mount. During the Roman conquest of Judea and Samaria (68-67 BCE), it was only Adiabene that sent provisions and troops to the rescue of the besieged Galilee.[link]

According to the Talmud, both Heleni and Monbaz donated large funds for the Temple.

Rulers of Adiabene

1. Izates I c. 15 CE
2. Bazeus Monobazus I 20?-30? and
3. Heleni c.30-58
4. Izates II bar Monobazus c.34-58
5. Vologases (a Parthian rebel oposing Izates II) c. 50
6. Monobazus II bar Izates 58-midle of the 70's
7. Meharaspes ? -116
8. The Roman Empire 116-117
9. Narsai c. 170-200
10. unknown 200-c. 310
11. Aphraates c. 310
12. The Sassanid Empire 226-649

Bishops of Adiabene

• Pkidha (104-114)
• Semsoun (120-123)
• Isaac (135-148)
• Abraham (148-163)
• Noh (163-179)
• Habel (183-190)
• Abedhmiha (190-225)
• Hiran (225-258)
• Saloupha (258-273)
• Ahadabuhi (273-291)
• Sri'a (291-317)
• Iohannon (317-346)
• Abraham (346-347)
• Maran-zkha (347-376)
• Soubhaliso (376-407)
• Daniel (407-431)
• Rhima (431-450)
• Abbousta (450-499)
• Joseph (499-511)
• Huana (511-???)

Sources

• Brauer, E., The Jews of Kurdistan, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1993.
• Solomon Grayzel, A History of the Jews ,New York: Mentor, 1968.
• [Bishops of Adiabene]
• [History of Aramaic (includes references to Adiabene)]
• [University of Chicago]
• [Adiabene, Jewish Kingdom of Mesopotamia]
• [History of Christianity in Iran]
• [The forced conversion of the Jewish community of Persia and the beginnings of the Kurds]
• [The Y Chromosome Pool of Jews as Part of the Genetic Landscape of the Middle East], American Journal of Human Genetics, Vol. 69, 1095-1112, 2001.
• [The history of Judaism in Kurdistan].

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