BARHADBÈSABBĀ. — Historian and Nestorian, born at Bet Asbaje (Persia); he was a student at the school of Nisibis under the direction of Hēnānā, in the second half of the sixth century.
The catalogue of Ebediesu (G. S. Assemani, Bibl. Orient., III, Rome 1725, p. 169) attributes books to B., of which only a history of the Church in 32 chapters is still preserved. F. Nau (PO 9, 493 ff.) published its final 14 chapters. A. Sher (op. cit. 4, 320 ff.) published B.’s Treatise on the Founding of Schools. In 605, a certain B., bishop of Halvān, subscribed to the Synod of Gregory I (J. B. Chabot, Synodicon orient., Paris 1902, p. 379). Since there are contradictions between the two works, Baumstark (Geschichte der syrischen Literatur, Bonn 1922, p. 136) holds that the author of the first was different from B., bishop of Halvān and author of the second.