Talk:Abgar VIII

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I added the alternate name Abgar bar Ma'nu because I saw it in some texts, which I cited in the article. However, most of these texts are old, and I wonder if this is actually a mistake confusing Abgar VIII with Abgar VII. I haven't looked at any source documents. Daask (talk) 15:53, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If we look at the List of rulers of Parthian sub-kingdoms# Kings of Osrhoene 132 BC–c. 293 AD or Osroene#Rulers there must be an error (Peluba (talk) 08:50, 6 February 2018 (UTC))[reply]

Confusion between the various Abgars is a constant problem that plagues everything written in modern times (and probably some in ancient times) about Edessa. I've tried to clean some of it up here: the Abgar who our sources talk about converting was in the first century, it was not this Abgar. AlphabeticThing9 (talk) 04:24, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]