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Abgar or Agbar was the favored name among a dynasty of local rulers at Edessa in northern Mesopotamia, the most famous of whom figured in the forged correspondence with Jesus, accepted as genuine in Eusebius of Caesarea's Ecclesiastical History and extensively quoted. The story of the conversion of Abgar to Christianity is traditionally linked to Abgar V, but Walter Bauer made a case for the Abgarus who converted being Abgar IX. References- Walter Bauer, Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity, 1934, (in English 1971) (
- Robert Eisenman, James the Brother of Jesus : The key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls, 1997 (Viking Penguin). Especially thje section "Thaddeus, Judas Thomas and the conversion of the Osrhoeans", pp 189ff. Абгар
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