Bardaisan

Bardaisan, known in Arabic as ibn Dayṣān and in Latin as Bardesanes, was a Syriac-speaking Christian writer and teacher with a Gnostic background, and founder of the Bardaisanites.

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Who was born first?

• Bardaisan was born 4 years after Nagarjuna
• Bardaisan was born 4 years after Clement of Alexandria
• Bardaisan was born 6 years before Tertullian
• Bardaisan was born 6 years before Sextus Julius Africanus
• Bardaisan was born 21 years before Ammonius Saccas

Timeline

1. Clement of Alexandriacirca AD 150 – circa AD 215
2. Nagarjunacirca AD 150 – circa AD 250
3. Bardaisan (this page)July 11, AD 154 – AD 222
4. Sextus Julius Africanuscirca AD 160 – circa AD 240
5. Tertulliancirca AD 160 – circa AD 240
6. Ammonius SaccasAD 175 – 3rd century

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