Benjamin, son of Jacob - ܒܢܝܡܝܢ

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Benjamin, son of Jacob is the biblical patriarch from the book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. The favored youngest son of Jacob and Rachel, he was also the favorite of his older brother Joseph. The two were commemorated together in the Syriac hagiographic tradition.1

Names

  • ܒܢܝܡܝܢ1
  • Benjamin, son of Jacob
  • Benjamin1
  • Benyamīn
  • Benyamīn1

Notes

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  • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 1800.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Benjamin, son of Jacob — ܒܢܝܡܝܢ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1632.

Bibliography:

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Benjamin, son of Jacob — ܒܢܝܡܝܢ .”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1632.

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Entry Title: Benjamin, son of Jacob — ܒܢܝܡܝܢ

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  • Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
  • Data architecture and encoding by David A. Michelson
  • Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
  • Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo
  • Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
  • Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne

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