Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Author:

Period covered:

Abraham-640

Language:

Syriac

State of Preservation:

Full

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Remarks:

Palmer (1992) attributes the chronicle to Thomas the priest (cf. that entry).

Edition - Translation:

A. Palmer (1993) The seventh century in the West-Syrian chronicles, including two seventh-century Syriac apocalyptic texts (Translated texts for historians, 15). Liverpool: 5-24.
E.W. Brooks (1904) (ed.) Chronica minora. Volume Two (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 4: Scriptores Syri, 3). Leuven: 77-156.
J.-B. Chabot (1904) (tr.) Chronica minora. Volume Two (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 4: Scriptores Syri, 4). Leuven: 61-119.

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Bibliography:

M. Debié (2015) L'écriture de l'histoire en syriaque: Transmissions interculturelles et constructions identitaires entre hellénisme et Islam (Late antique history and religion, 12). Leuven - Paris - Bristol: 543-545.
A. Palmer (1992) 'Une chronique syriaque contemporaine de la conquête arabe.:Essai d'interprétation théologique et politique'. In: La Syrie de la Byzance à l'Islam, ed. P. Canivet, J.-P. Rey-Coquais. Damascus: 31-46.