The Chronicle of Zuqnīn
Parts I and II : From the Creation to the Year 506/7 AD
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Author
Publication
2017 - Gorgias Press, Piscataway, NJ, New Jersey
Language
English
Word Count
127,750 words, Guess
Page Count
511 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL59212996M
- ISBN-139781463206635
- ISBN-101463206631
- OCLC Control Number975744423
Classifications
- DDC930
- LCCD17 .M249 2017
Alternate Titles
- From the Creation to the Year 506/7 AD
Description
"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."--
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Series Statement
- Gorgias chronicles of late antiquity -- 2
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