TY - BOOK AU - Wilmshurst,David TI - Bar Hebraeus "The Ecclesiastical Chronicle": An English Translation T2 - Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies SN - 9781463205355 PY - 2016///] CY - Piscataway, NJ : PB - Gorgias Press, KW - HISTORY / Ancient / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction --; Text and Translation --; Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle: Section One, 1- 441 --; Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle: Section One, 441- 845 --; Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle: Section Two --; Appendix One: The Patriarchs and Maphrians of the Jacobite Church --; Appendix Two: The Patriarchs of the Church of the East --; Select Bibliography --; Index --; Maps; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - The Ecclesiastical History of Bar Hebraeus is an important source for the history of the Syrian Orthodox Church and the Church of the East. It deserves to be widely read, but has never before been fully translated into English. David Wilmshurst, a noted historian of the Church of the East, has now provided a graceful and accurate English translation of the Ecclesiastical History, with the aim of winning this important text the readership it deserves. Wilmshurst's elegant translation is complemented by a well-informed and helpful introduction, several pages of maps and a comprehensive index of places and persons UR - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463234225 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463234225 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463234225/original ER -