ADIABENE, a Country in Assyria, thro’ which the River Lycus passes, and discharges itself into the Tigris. The name of Adiabene is not to be met with in our Vulgate; but Josephus1 speaks much of Helena Queen of the Adiabenians, and of Izates her Son, who were both Converts to Judaism in the time of the Emperor Claudius, about the year of J. C. 41. There are some Authors2, who believe that this Queen and her Son embraced Christianity, and that Josephus had a mind to do honour to his Nation by a Conversion which belonged properly to the Christian Church. But I see the marks of Judaism only, both in Helena and Izates, and am of opinion, that Adiabene is the Province of Ava, thro’ which the River Ahava, or Adiava runs. See hereafter AHABA.
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