Hadadezer ("Hadad is my help"); also known as Adad-Idri. and possibly the same as Bar-Hadad II (Aram.); Ben-Hadad II (Heb.), was the king of Aramea Damascus at the time of the battle of Qarqar against the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III in 853 BCE. He and Irhuleni of Hamath led a coalition of eleven kings...

Bardaisan (Aramaic: ܒܪܕܝܨܢ, Bardaiṣān; 154–222; also Latinized as Bardesanes) was a Aramean gnostic, founder of the Bardaisanites, and an outstanding scientist, scholar, astrologist, philosopher and poet...