The Chronicle of Zuqnīn
Subtitle: Parts I and II : From the Creation to the Year 506/7 AD
By: edited and translated by Amir Harrak
Series: Gorgias chronicles of late antiquity -- 2
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng; syc
Translated from: syc
Number of pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9781463206635
Subjects: Syriac language; Texts; Ancient History; Sources; History; Church history; Makhtevanuta (Pseudo-Dionysius, of Tel-Maḥrē)
Other 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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-463) and indexes.

Syriac text with English translation on facing pages; Introduction in English.