Ḥasan bar Bahlul (, '; , ') was a 10th-century Christian bishop and Syriac linguist. Not much is known of Bar Bahlul's life. His name has appeared in the list of bishops who supported Abdisho I's ascent to the patriarchy of the

Church of the East The Church of the East ( ) or the East Syriac Church, also called the Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the Persian Church, the Assyrian Church, the Babylonian Church, the Chaldean Church or the Nestorian Church, is one of three major branches o ...

in 963. Based on his nisbah, bar Bahlul was a native of

Ṭīrhān The Diocese of Tirhan was an East Syriac Rite, East Syriac diocese of the Church of the East, within the central ecclesiastical Patriarchal Province of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, Province of the Patriarch. The diocese is attested between the sixth and four ...

, a district now part of the city of

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. Bar Bahlul is mainly known for his comprehensive Syriac-Arabic dictionary. He has also a number of other books that were lost on the biographies of Western and Eastern Syriac bishops and on the interpretation of dreams.

External links

Dukhrana online searchable version of Hassan bar Bahlul's Syriac Lexicon: VOLUME 1 & 2

References

{{authority control 10th-century bishops of the Church of the East 10th-century linguists 10th-century lexicographers