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Baba, Gabriel an Italian abbot and theologian, was a native of Venice and lived in the latter half of the 17th century. He became secretary of cardinal Bichi, and wrote, Principle Documenti della Vita Cristiana, Tradotti del Latino del Card. Giov. Bona (Rome, 1676, 1677): Discorso sopra l’Esalfazione di Papa Alessandro VIII (ibid. 1689). See … Continue reading “Baba, Gabriel”

Baba SEE MISHNA. Baba the Same as Papa (q.v.). Baba a Turkish impostor who lived in the early half of the 13th century, appeared in the city of Amasia in 1240, and required his disciples to adopt as their profession of faith that there existed one God, and that Baba was his envoy. The Mohammedans … Continue reading “Baba”

Bab, John an Armenian theologian, studied theology and history at the monastery of Meirawank in Armenia, and gained great renown for his learning. He died near the close of the 9th century, and left in manuscript, a Commentary on the Four Gospels: Explanation of the Epistle to the Romans :- Chronology of Ecclesiastical History, a … Continue reading “Bab, John”

Bab a-word signifying father, and used by the ancient Persian magi to denote fire, which they considered the father and first principle of all things, as taught by Zoroaster (q.v.). Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Baaz, John a Swedish theologian who lived in the latter half of the 17th century, wrote, Inventarium Ecclesice Sueo – Gothorum (Linkoping, 1642 ): Hirmonia Evangelica. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Baau according to the cosmogony of the Phoenicians, is the original night, the wife of the spirit Kolpia, and by him mother of Eon, the first-born of time, out of whom Genos and Geneia sprang. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

BAASHA Son of Ahijah, and commander of the armies of Nadab, king of Israel. He killed his master treacherously at the siege of Gibbethon, and usurped the kingdom, B.C. 953, which he possessed twenty-three years. He exterminated the whole race of Jeroboam, as had been predicted, 1Ki 14:7-14 ; but by his bad conduct and … Continue reading “Baasha”

Baaseiah (Heb. Baiseyah’, , for 9, son of Asaiah, or work of Jehotwsh; Sept. ), a Gershonite Levite, son of Malchia, and father of Michael, in the lineage of Asaph (1Ch 6:40 [25]). B. C. cir. 1310 . Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Baaseiah 1Ch 6:40. Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary Baaseiah BAASEIAH.A … Continue reading “Baaseiah”

Baarsdorp, (or Baersdorp), Marinus Kornelius a priest of the Netherlands, son of Kornelius, a physician and diplomatist, lived in the early half of the 16th century. He embraced the ecclesiastical state, made a pilgrimage, and on his return became director of the hospital at Puterryken, founded in 1525. He left all his possessions to this … Continue reading “Baarsdorp, (or Baersdorp), Marinus Kornelius”

Baaras (), the name (according to Josephus, War, 7, 6, 3) of a valley inclosing the city of Herodium on the north, and so called from an extraordinary species of plant (but whether the same with the gigantic rue, , mentioned in the same connection, does not appear), to the root of which the credulous … Continue reading “Baaras”