Title(s):
- Ecclesiastical history
- ܐܩܠܝܣܝܣܛܝܩܝ(’eqlēsyasṭīqī, Ecclesiastical history)
- ܬܫ̈ܥܝܬܐ ܕܥܕܬܐ(taš‘yātā d-‘idtā, Histories of the church)
Period covered:
Julius Caesar-author's time (1st c. B.C.-588)
Language:
Syriac
State of Preservation:
Partial
Genre:
- Ecclesiastical history
Remarks:
Only the third part of John's Ecclesiastical history is entirely preserved. The first part is lost, whereas large sections of the second are quoted by the anonymous chronicler of Zuqnin.
The first two parts were composed ca. 565-566, the third part ca. 577-588.
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