TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harrak,Amir
TI  - The Chronicle of Zuqnīn: Parts I and II. From the Creation to the Year 506/7 AD 
T2  - Gorgias Chronicles of Late Antiquity
SN  - 9781463206635
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / Middle East / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Bibliographic Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Text and Translation --; The Chronicle of Zuqnīn (Part I) --; The Chronicle of Zuqnīn (Part II) --; Bibliography --; Index --; Map 1. Syria and the West --; Map 2. Syria and Mesopotamia; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The Chronicle of Zuqnin is a universal history beginning with the Creation according to the biblical account and ending with the time of the Chronicler, the years 775-776 AD. The author is most probably Joshua the Stylite, a contemporary of the Caliphs al-Mansur and al-Mahdi, who lived in the monastery of Zuqnin that was located near Amid, the Diar-Bakr of modern Turkey. Parts I and II contain compiled sources some of which survived only in this Chronicle. Sources include the Bible, Cave of Treasures, the Sleepers of Ephesus, Eusebius of Caesarea, Socrates, and the short Chronicle called Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite that deals with Sassanian-Byzantine warfare at the begging of the 6th century. Parts III and IV cover the years 488 and 775 AD. In this volume, Parts I and II, including the author's dedicatory letter, are now published in an updated edition of the Syriac text and the first English translation
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463237370
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ER  -