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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 ...
Joshua the Stylite (also spelled Yeshu Stylite [1] and Ieshu Stylite) is the attributed author of a chronicle which narrates the history of the war between the Byzantine Empire and Persians between 502 and 506, and which is generally considered [by whom?] to be one of the earliest [2] and most reliable historical documents to be preserved in Syriac.
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 Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite is an anonymous Syriac history of the period 494–506 AD. Its actual title as given in the manuscript is A Historical Narrative of the Period of Distress Which Occurred in Edessa, Amid and All Mesopotamia.
Page from a Syriac translation of Abba Isaiah's Asceticon, [1] from a 6th-century manuscript in Estrangela script, from the Monastery of St Catherine, Mt Sinai (Schøyen Collection MS 574) Syriac literature is literature in the Syriac language. It is a tradition going back to the Late Antiquity. It is strongly associated with Syriac Christianity.
6 Maccabees was originally written in Syriac and only a Syriac text is known, preserved in at least three manuscripts. [2] The whereabouts of only one of these is currently known: Bodleian , Or. 624 (Syr. 134), an 18th- or 19th-century copy in Nestorian script from the Christian community of Malabar in India. [ 4 ]
Written in Syriac in East Syrian circles, it covers the period from ca. 590–660, [1] from the end of reign of the Sasanian ruler Hormizd IV (r. 579–590) to the aftermath of the fall of the Sasanian Empire (652). The work was a work of contemporary accounts and combines material from written sources and oral accounts. [1]