Sinharib or Sanharib, syc, ܣܢܚܪܝܒ was according to the Hagiography of

Mar Behnam Saints Behnam, Sarah, and the Forty Martyrs were 4th-century Christians who suffered martyrdom during the reign of Shapur II. They are venerated as saints in the Oriental Orthodox Church. Biography According to their hagiography, Behnam and Sara ...

, an Assyrian king who controlled Nineveh in the fourth century AD. Nineveh was at this time within the

Asōristān Asoristan ( pal, 𐭠𐭮𐭥𐭥𐭮𐭲𐭭 ''Asōristān'', ''Āsūristān'') was the name of the Sasanian province of Assyria and Babylonia from 226 to 637. Name The Parthian name ''Asōristān'' (; also spelled ''Asoristan'', ''Asurista ...

province of the Sasanian Empire. Sinharib is generally regarded to be an anachronistically placed and Christianized version of the ancient Assyrian king

Sennacherib Sennacherib ( Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: or , meaning " Sîn has replaced the brothers") was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his father Sargon II in 705BC to his own death in 681BC. The second king of the Sargonid dynas ...

(705–681 BC), cast in a role befitting the then Christian Assyrians so that he could still be revered. According to the narrative in the hagiography, much like Julian the Apostate of the

Roman Empire The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post- Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediter ...

, Sinharib disliked Christianity and tried to persuade his son Behnam to reject Christianity. Although greatly influenced by the Persian

Zoroastrian Zoroastrianism is an Iranian religion and one of the world's oldest organized faiths, based on the teachings of the Iranian-speaking prophet Zoroaster. It has a dualistic cosmology of good and evil within the framework of a monotheistic ...

religion at first, he later became Christian.

References

External links

The Assyrian Prince Mor Behnam St. Behanan, his sister Sara and 40 Sahadas
History of Assyria Converts to Christianity from Zoroastrianism Christians in the Sasanian Empire {{Assyrian-stub

See also

References

External links