Abdias

Abdias stands for:

  • Obadiah, Greco-Latin name version of the biblical prophets
  • Book of Obadiah, Greco-Latin name version of the biblical book
  • Abdias ( founder ), a story by Adalbert Stifter

Abdias is the first name of the following persons:

  • Abdias of Babylon (1st century? ), Allegedly apostle students and first bishop of Babylon, nothing is known about otherwise. He is a widely read in the Middle Ages apocryphal collection of Acts of the Apostles attributed to the Historia Certaminis Apostolici
  • Abdas of Susa (also Abda, Abdias and Audias; † around 420 AD), Christian martyr and saint
  • Abdias Praetorius (also: Gottschalk Schultze; 1524-1573 ), Protestant theologian and reformer
  • Abdias Trew (also: litter; 1597-1669 ), German Protestant theologian, mathematician and astronomer

See also:

  • Abdas
  • Disambiguation
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