Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Chronicle
Χρονικόν
(Chronikon, Chronicle)
ܟܬܒܐ ܕܟܪܘܢܝܩܘܢ
(ktābā d-krūnīqūn, Book of the chronicon)

Author:

Diodorus of Tarsus

Period covered:

Abraham-390?

Language:

Greek

State of Preservation:

Fragmentary

Genre:

Remarks:

The work was most likely primarily concerned with Old Testament chronology and it corrected Eusebius. It is cited by the Suda among works of Old Testament exegesis.

Edition - Translation:

P. Van Nuffelen, L. Van Hoof (forthcoming) The fragmentary Greek chronicles after Eusebius: Edition, translation and commentary. Cambridge.

Fragments:

Suda, δ 1149
Jacob of Edessa, Chronicle, [Brooks – Guidi – Chabot 1904: 365T, 201V]
Elias of Nisibis: Chronicle. First Part [Brooks 1910 (ed.): 14; Brooks 1910 (tr.): 6]
Elias of Nisibis, Chronicle. Second Part [Chabot 1910 (ed.): 99; Chabot 1910 (tr.): 111]

Users:

Theodore Lector

Sources:

Eusebius of Caesarea

Bibliography:

E.W. Brooks, J.-B. Chabot (1910) Eliae metropolitae Nisibeni opus chronologicum. Two Volumes (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 7-8). Paris.
E.W. Brooks, I. Guidi, J.-B. Chabot (1904) Chronica minora. Volume Two (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 3-4). Paris.