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ArameansBar Bahlul’s Definition of Syria
“Syria includes Antioch, Aleppo, Seleucia (the port al-Suwaydiyya near Antioch), Hama, Shaizar, and Qinnasrin.” He further says that “Syria is all the country from Antioch to Edessa, Bilad al-Sham.”
In the same lexicon, he says an Aramean is a Syriac from Sham. Sham is Antioch as well as Edessa, so the Syriac Christians of Edessa (Saint Ephrem the Syrian, Saint Jacob of Edessa, etc.) are considered Arameans per Bar Bahlul’s definition.
In the same lexicon, he says an Aramean is a Syriac from Sham. Sham is Antioch as well as Edessa, so the Syriac Christians of Edessa (Saint Ephrem the Syrian, Saint Jacob of Edessa, etc.) are considered Arameans per Bar Bahlul’s definition.