Simeon of Beth Arsham (Syriac: ܫܡܥܘܢ ܕܒܝܬ ܐܪܫܡ, romanized: Shemʿun di-Beth Arsham)[1][2] was a Syrian bishop who spread his teachings at the beginning of the sixth century. He was the bishop of Beth Arsham (House of Arsames), which was located near Seleucia-Ctesiphon.[3]
seat of Jewish religious learning. In light of this, the Letter ofSimeonofBethArsham urged the Christians of Palaestina to seize the leaders of Judaism...
circa 520 CE in a Syriac letter of Bishop SimeonofBethArsham in which he states that he wrote his letter from the camp of the Ghassanid king Jabalah IV...
site of the school, according to SimeonofBethArsham. In the year 809 of the Seleucid era (either 496 or 497), during an outbreak of the "disease of tumours"...
and edited the Chronicle of Edessa. He also edited for the first time a letter ofSimeonofBethArsham about the martyrs of Najran, the oldest evidence...
related compositions were produced during this time period, such as SimeonofBethArsham's Letter on the Himyarite Martyrs, although Jacob's letter was addressed...
A surviving letter (where he is called Dimnon) written by Simeon, the bishop ofBethArsham in 524 AD, recounts Dhū Nuwās's persecution in Najrān (modern...