Adiabene

Adiabene (dari bahasa Yunani Kuno , Adiabene, yang berasal dari ,  atau , Persia Kuno: Nodshirakan,Richard Nelson Frye, 1984, The history of ancient Iran: Volume 3, Bagian 7 - Halaman 222 Armenia: Նոր Շիրական, Nor Shirakan) adalah sebuah kerajaan kuno di Asiria,The Biblical Geography of Central Asia: With a General Introduction, Oleh Ern. Frid. Car. Rosenmüller. Halaman 122.In Memory of Rabbi and Mrs. Carl Friedman: Studies on the Problem of Tannaim in Babylonia (ca. 130-160 C. E.) Pengarang: Jacob Neusner Sumber: Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Vol. 30 (1962), hlm. 79-127.Ammianus Marcellinus, another fourth-century writer. In his excursus on the Sasanian Empire he describes Assyria in such a way that there is no mistaking he is talking about lower Mesopotamia (Amm. Marc. XXIII. 6. 15). For Assyria he lists three major cities-Babylon, Ctesiphon and Seleucia (Amm. Marc. xxIII. 6. 23), whereas he refers to Adiabene as 'Assyria priscis temporibus vocitata' (Amm. Marc. xxIII. 6. 20). yang beribu kota di Arbela (kini Arbil, Kurdistan Irak). Penguasanya pindah agama dari Ashurisme menjadi Yudaisme pada abad ke-1.
Ratu Helena dari Adiabene (dikenal dalam sumber-sumber Yahudi dengan nama Heleni HaMalka) pindah ke Yerusalem dan kemudian membangun istana untuk dirinya sendiri dan anak-anaknya, Izates bar Monobaz dan Monobaz II, di bagian utara kota Daud dan di sebelah selatan Bait Allah. Menurut Talmud, Helena dan Monbaz banyak menyumbang untuk Kuil Yerusalem.

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Menurut Pliny, terdapat empat suku di wilayah Adiabene: Orontes, Alani, Azones, dan Silices.Pliny the Elder, The natural history, book VI, chap. 30 Berdasarkan catatan Josephus, terdapat pula orang-orang Yahudi.

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 Referensi 
 Brauer, E., The Jews of Kurdistan, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1993.
 Solomon Grayzel, A History of the Jews,New York: Mentor, 1968.
 Gottheil, Richard. "Adiabene". Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906.; which cites:
 Josephus, Jewish Antiquities xx. 2, § 4;
 idem, Wars of the Jews. ii. 19, § 2; iv. 9, § 11; v. 2, § 2; 3, § 3; 4, § 2; 6, § 1, noting that Josephus probably got his information from Adiabene Jews in Jerusalem (Von Gutschmid, Kleine Schriften, iii. 4).
 Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis, v. 66, vi. 44 et seq. Ammianus, History, xviii. 7, § 1; xxiii. 6, § 21
 Strabo, Geography, xvi. 745 et seq. Brüll, Adiabene, in Jahrbuch i. 58 et seq. Grätz, Heinrich, in Monatsschrift, 1877, xxvi. 241 et seq., 289 et seq.
 Von Gutschmid, Gesch. Irans, pp. 140 et seq.
 Schürer, Gesch. ii. 562.

 Pranala luar 
 Bishops of Adiabene
 History of Aramaic (includes references to Adiabene)
 The forced conversion of the Jewish community of Persia and the beginnings of the Kurds 
 "Assyria" at Livius.org
 "Arbela" at Livius.org
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