The Chronicle of Zuqnīn: Parts I and II. From the Creation to the Year 506/7 AD (Gorgias Chronicles of Late Antiquity)

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by  Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel Mahre

The Chronicle of Zuqnīn
Gorgias Chronicles of Late Antiquity
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Editorial Board
Amir Harrak
Muriel Debié
Jan J. van Ginkel
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The Chronicle of Zuqnīn
Parts I and II. From the Creation to the Year 506/7 AD
Edited and Translated by
Amir Harrak
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J.-B. Chabot
In Memoriam
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents ................................................................................................................ v
Bibliographic Abbreviations ............................................................................................. vii
Syriac Sources ............................................................................................................ vii
Armenian Sources .................................................................................................... viii
Greek Sources ........................................................................................................... viii
Latin Sources ............................................................................................................ viii
Series and Periodicals ................................................................................................ ix
Introduction ......................................................................................................................... xi
Manuscript and Title ................................................................................................. xi
Identity of the Chronicler and his Position .......................................................... xii
Date of the manuscript and time of writing ........................................................ xiii
Sources of Parts I and II .......................................................................................... xv
Historiographical Remarks .................................................................................... xxii
Writing Practices .................................................................................................... xxiii
Present Edition and translation ........................................................................... xxiv
Editorial Abbreviations .......................................................................................... xxv
Special and Frequent Abbreviations .............................................................. xxv
Syriac Editions of the Chronicle of Zuqnin ................................................ xxvi
Text and Translation ........................................................................................................... 1
The Chronicle of Zuqnīn (Part I) ............................................................................. 2
The Chronicle of Zuqnīn (Part II) ....................................................................... 354
Bibliography ...................................................................................................................... 457
Index .................................................................................................................................. 465
Index of Selected Terms ........................................................................................ 465
Index of Biblical Quotations ................................................................................. 468
Index of Personal Names ...................................................................................... 470
Index of Geographical Names .............................................................................. 482
Subjects Index .......................................................................................................... 488
Map 1. Syria and the West .............................................................................................. 510
Map 2. Syria and Mesopotamia ...................................................................................... 511

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BIBLIOGRAPHIC ABBREVIATIONS
For biblical abbreviations not listed below see J. Charlesworth, ed., The Old
Testament Pseudepigrapha.
SYRIAC SOURCES
Acts of Thomas The Acts of Thomas (Klijn’s edition of 1962)
Barheb. Chr. Syr. Gregorii Barhebraei Chronicon Syriacum (Paris, 1890)
BO Assemani, Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana
Edessene Chronicle So-called Chronicle of Joshua the Stylite (last
compiled source in the Chronicle of Zuqnin)
Elia Eliae metropolitae Nisibeni Opus chronologicum (I. CSCO T.
62*/Syr. 21‏, V. 63*/Syr 23)
Cave of Treasures Riʾs La Caverne des trésors (CSCO 486–87)
Chr. Edes. Chronicon Edessenum (ed. and trans. Guidi in Chronica
Minora I, T. CSCO 1/Syr 1, V. CSCO 2/Syr. 2)
Chr. Zuq. Incerti Auctoris Chronicon Pseudo-Dionysianum vulgo dictum,
ed. I.-B. Chabot, CSCO I 91/43 and II 104/53
(Louvain 1927–1933).
Chr. 724 Chronicon miscellaneum ad ann. p. Chr. 724 pertinens (ed.
Brooks in ‏Chronica minora CSCO 3/Syr. 3
Chr. 846 Chronicon anonymum ad ann. p. Chr. 846 pertinens, (ed.
Brooks in Chronica ‏minora II, T. CSCO 3/Syr. 3)
Chr. 1234 Anonymi auctoris Chronicon ad annumChristi 1234
pertinens (ed. and trans. J. B. Chabot, CSCO 81/Syr
36, CSCO 109/Syr 56
Jacob of Edes. Chronicon Jacobi Edesseni, (in Chronica Minora III, T.
CSCO 5/Syr. 5‏, V. CSCO 6/Syr. 6)
Pleroph. Nau, “Les plérophories de Jean, évêque de Mayouma”
in ROC 3 (1898), p. 232–259
Ktōbō d-ṭaksō Ktōbō d-ṭaksō d-ʿīdē ʿi(d)tōnōyē vol. I (Mosul, 1969)
Mich. Syr. The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael
the Great (Gregorios Y. Ibrahim’s edition of 2009;
Chabot’s trans. in Chronique de Michel le Syrien vol. I.
Jacob of Sarug Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias
Press, 2006), vol. VI, 324–30.
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John of Ephesus, EH Iohannis ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, (ed. by
Brooks, CSCO 105/Syr. 54)
Resh Melle John of Phenek (Mingana’s Catalogue of the Mingana
Collection of Manuscripts, vol. 1 and Microfilm fol. 148b
lines 4–7)
Ps. Zach. Historia ecclesiastica Zachariae Rhetori vulgo adscripta (ed.
And trans. by Brooks CSCO 83‏/Syr. 83, CSCO‏ْ ‏
87/Syr. 41
ARMENIAN SOURCES
Arm. Karst’s Die Chronik: aus dem Armenischen übersetzt
mit textkritischem Commentar
Moses Khorenatsʻi Thomson’s Moses Khorenatsʻi History of the Armenians
GREEK SOURCES
Chr. Pas. Chronicon Paschale (ed. Dindorf; trans. Whitby)
Euseb. Chronici canones Armenian (Arm.,) version: Karst, Die Chronik (1911);
Latin (Hier.) version: Helm, Eusebius Caesariensis Werke
(1956)
Euseb. EH Eusebius. Ecclesiastical History (Trans. Lake; Loeb
Classical Library)
Evag. The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius with the Scholia (ed.
Bidez and Parmentier; trans. Whitby, Evagrius)
Joseph., Antiq Josephus, Jewish Antiquities (trans. Feldman, Loeb
Classical Library
Joseph. War Josephus, The Jewish War (trans. Page, Loeb Classical
Library
Mal. Malalas’ Chronographia (ed. Dindorf; trans. Jeffreys and
Scott)
Procop. Procopius, History of the Wars (trans. Dewing, Loeb
Classical Library
Soc. Socrates, Ecclesiastical History (ed. Hansen, and anon.
trans. in Bohn’s Ecclesiastical Library)
Soz. HE Sozomen, Historia Ecclesiastica (ed. Bidez and Hansen)
Strabo The geography of Strabo (trans. Jones, Loeb Classical
Library)
Theod. HE Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Historia Ecclesiastica (ed.
Parmentier and Scheidweiler)
Theoph. HE Theophanes, Chronographia (ed. de Boor; trans. Mango
et als.)
LATIN SOURCES
Hier. Jerome’s Latin translation of Eusebius’ Chronicle;
Helm’s Eusebius Caesariensis Werke, Band 7: Die Chronik
des Hieronymus
BIBLIOGRAPHIC ABBREVIATIONS ix
SERIES AND PERIODICALS
AB Analecta Bollandiana (Brussels)
Aram Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies
(Oxford)
BJRL Bulletin of The John Rylands University Library of Manchester
EJ Encyclopedia Judaica
Harp The Harp: A Review of Syriac, Oriental and
Ecumenical Studies (Kottayam)
Hugoye Journal of Syriac Studies (Beth Mardutho, online)
Journal of the CSSS Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies
(Toronto)
JJS Journal of Jewish Studies (Oxford)
JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies (Chicago)
OCA Orientalia Christiana Analecta (Rome)
PO Patrologia Orientalis (Turnhout)
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
(London)
ROC Revue de l’Orient chrétien (Paris)
OLP Orientalia lovaniensia Periodica (Leuven)