Late Antique Historiography

Ecclesiastical history

Title(s):
  • Ecclesiastical history
  • ܬܫܥܝܬܐ ܕܐܒܗ̈ܬܐ ܩܕܝܫ̈ܐ ܕܐܬܪܕܦܘ ܡܛܠ ܫܪܪܐ
    (taš‘ītā d-’abāhātā qadīšē d-’etrdepw meṭul šrārā, History of the holy fathers who were persecuted for the sake of the truth)
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Period covered:
Apostles-author's time (569)
Language:
Syriac
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Ecclesiastical history
  • Biography (collective)
Remarks:
The relationship between the Ecclesiastical history and the Cause of the foundation of the schools is unclear: some discrepancies notwithstanding, it might either be that the Cause of the foundation of the schools relies on Barḥadbšabba 'Arbāyā's Ecclesiastical history or that they share a common source (cf. Becker 2008: 11-16).
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Bibliography:
  • A. Baumstark (1922) Geschichte der syrischen Literatur, mit Ausschluss der christlich-palästinensischen Texte. Bonn: 136.
  • S. Brock, A.M. Butts, G.A. Kiraz, L. Van Rompay (2011) Gorgias Encyclopedic dictionary of the Syriac heritage. Piscataway (NJ): 57-58.
  • 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: 599-601.
  • J.-M. Fiey (1970) Jalons pour une histoire de l'Église en Iraq (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium: Subsidia, 310). Leuven: 25-26.
  • S. Gero (1981) Barṣauma of Nisibis and Persian Christianity in the fifth century (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium: Subsidia, 547). Leuven: 5-6.
  • T. Hermann (1926) 'Die Schule von Nisibis vom 5. bis 7. Jahrhundert'. Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 25: 89-122.
  • A. Mingana (1905) Réponse à M. l'abbé J.-B. Chabot à propos de la chronique de Barhadbešabba. Mosul.
  • I. Ortiz de Urbina (1958) Patrologia Syriaca. Rome: 132-133.
  • A. Scher (1908) Cause de la fondation des écoles (Patrologia Orientalis, 4.4). Paris.
  • M. Tamcke (1988) Katholikos-Patriarch Sabrischo. Frankfurt.
  • A. Vööbus (1965) A history of the School of Nisibis (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium: Subsidia, 266). Leuven: 280-282, 284-296.