The Chronicle of Zuqnīn : : Parts I and II. From the Creation to the Year 506/7 AD / / Amir Harrak.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• HerausgeberIn: Harrak, Amir,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: Multiple
• Series: Gorgias Chronicles of Late Antiquity
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (539 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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