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• From these and other similar articles in encyclopaedias, it is clear that Bar Hebraeus was a historian and scholar of immense importance at the time of the Crusades. He documented a great deal of the history of his time and earlier. He is regarded as a saint by the Syriac Orthodox Church, who hold his feast day on July 30 each year.
• But, importantly, Bar Hebraeus was important in Aramaic Christianity. He lived in the Middle East, demonstrating once again that, even as late as the Crusades, Syriac (or Aramaic) was the normal spoken and written language at the time, across an immense landmass from Israel, Syria, across to Iraq and Iran, and beyond even as far as India.