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[1] [8] On the publication of the fourth part of the chronicle by Chabot, it was shown by Theodor Nöldeke, [9] and Nau, [10] that Assemani had been mistaken, and that the largest part of the chronicle in question was the work of an earlier writer, most probably Joshua the Stylite, from Zuqnin, whose name is inserted in the 9th century colophon ...
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National Library of Russia, Codex Syriac 1 is a manuscript of a Syriac version of the Eusebian Ecclesiastical History dated to AD 462. After the Islamic conquests of the mid-7th century, the process of hellenization of Syriac [ clarification needed ] , which was prominent in the sixth and seventh centuries, slowed and ceased.
The Chronicle of 1234 (Latin: Chronicon ad annum Christi 1234 pertinens) is an anonymous West Syriac universal history from Creation until 1234. [1] [2] The unknown author was probably from Edessa. The Chronicle only survives in fragments, from which it is known to be divided into two parts: the first on ecclesiastical history, the second on ...
The Melkite Chronicle or Chronicle of 641 is an anonymous world chronicle written in Syriac shortly after the death of the Emperor Heraclius in 641. [1] [2] The chronicle is preserved in a single copy in the 8th- or 9th-century manuscript codex Sinai syr. 10 at folios 42–53. [1] The codex also contains anti-Miaphysite polemics. [3]
Some excerpts of the lost full version of the text—sometimes called the Original Chronicle of Edessa—are preserved in other Syriac chronicles. [7] The Chronicle covers the period from the founding of the kingdom of Osrhoene in 133/132 BCE until 540, [7] but few events are recorded before the 3rd century. [5]
Michael the Syrian (Arabic: ميخائيل السرياني, romanized: Mīkhaʾēl el Sūryani:),(Classical Syriac: ܡܺܝܟ݂ܳܐܝܶܠ ܣܽܘܪܝܳܝܳܐ, romanized: Mīkhoʾēl Sūryoyo), died AD 1199, also known as Michael the Great (Syriac: ܡܺܝܟ݂ܳܐܝܶܠ ܪܰܒ݁ܳܐ, romanized: Mīkhoʾēl Rabo) or Michael Syrus or Michael the Elder, to distinguish him from his nephew, [1] was a ...
Burkitt is contradicted by other information. Eusebius, in HE 1.13.1-22 and HE 2.1.6-7 writing before 324 AD, records from a Syriac source that Thomas sent Thaddaeus (in Syriac 'Addai') "one of the seventy disciples" to preach in Edessa. [22]: 213 Others dismiss this claim and argue for Tatian as the founder of the church in Persia. "Samuel ...