Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Ecclesiastical history
ܩܠܣܣܛܝܩܐ
(qlesisṭiqā, Ecclesiastical history)
ܐܩܠܣܣܛܝܩܣ
(’eqlesisṭiqus, Ecclesiastical history)
اقلاسيسطيق
(aqlāsīsṭīq, Ecclesiastical history)
اخبار المدونة
(kakhbār al-mudawwana, Collected stories)

Author:

Daniel, son of Mary

Period covered:

Christ-author's time?

Language:

Syriac

State of Preservation:

Fragmentary

Genre:

Remarks:

The identification of Daniel bar Maryam with Daniel bar Tubanita proposed by Chabot (1896) has been proved groundless by Degen (1968: 75-80).

Edition - Translation:

Fragments:

Saliba: Kitāb al-majdal [Gismondi 1896 (ed.): 56, Gismondi 1897 (tr.): 32-33]
Abdisho bar Brika, Metrical catalogue of Syriac writers [Assemani 1725: 231, Badger 1852: 377]
Pseudo-George of Arbela's liturgical treatise [Connolly 1911: 38; Connolly 1913: 33]
Timothy I, Letters [Braun 1914: 132; Braun 1915: 88]
Ishodadh of Merw, Commentaries [Gibson 1911: 208, 12-14]
Chronicle of Seert 1.1 [Scher 1908: 221, 288-289], 1.2 [Scher 1910: 255, 309-310, 324-325] = Saliba, Kitāb al-majdal [Gismondi 1896 (ed.): 25-26, Gismondi 1897 (tr.): 15] = Mukhtaṣar al-akhbār al-bī'iyya 88, 115, 133 [Haddad 2000: 145, 186, 218]

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Bibliography:

J.S. Assemani (1725) Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana. Volume Three, Part One. Rome.
G.P. Badger (1852) The Nestorians and their rituals. Volume Two. London.
O. Braun (1914) (ed.) Timothei patriarchae epistulae. Volume One (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 74: Scriptores Syri, 30). Paris - Leipzig.
O. Braun (1915) (tr.) Timothei patriarchae epistulae. Volume One (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 75: Scriptores Syri, 31). Rome - Paris.
J.-B. Chabot (1896) 'Notes sur quelques points de l'histoire de la littérature syriaque'. Revue sémitique d'épigraphie et d'histoire ancienne 4: 252-257.
R.H. Connolly (1911) (ed.) Anonymi auctoris expositio officiorum ecclesiae Georgio Arbelensi vulgo adscripta. Volume One (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 64).
R.H. Connolly (1913) Anonymi auctoris expositio officiorum ecclesiae Georgio Arbelensi vulgo adscripta. Volume One (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 71).
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: 609-610.
E. Degen (1968) 'Daniel bar Maryam: Ein nestorianischer Kirchenhistoriker'. Oriens Christianus 52: 45-80.
E. Degen (1969) 'Die Kirchengeschichte des Daniel bar Maryam: Eine Quelle der Chronik von Se'ert?'. In: XVII. deutscher Orientalistentag vom 21. bis 27. Juli 1968 in Würzburg: Vorträge. Volume Two, ed. W. Voigt (Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Supplement 1.2) Wiesbaden: 511-516.
M.D. Gibson (1911) The Commentaries of Isho'dad of Merw, bishop of Ḥadatha, in Syriac and English. Volume Three (Horae Semiticae, 7). Cambridge.
E. Gismondi (1896) (ed.) De patriarchis nestorianorum commentaria. Part One: Amri et Slibae textus. Rome.
E. Gismondi (1897) (tr.) De patriarchis nestorianorum commentaria. Pas altera: Amri et Slibae textus versio latina. Rome.
E. Goeller (1901) 'Ein nestorianisches Bruchstück zur Kirchengeschichte der 4. und 5. Jahrhunderts'. Oriens Christianus 1: 80-97.
B. Haddad (2000) (ed.) Mukhtaṣar al-akhbār al-bī'iyya. Baghdad.
L.R. Sako (1987) 'Les sources de la chronique de Séert'. Parole de l'Orient 14: 155-166.
A. Scher (1908) Histoire nestorienne inédite (Chronique de Séert). Première partie, Fasc. 1 (Patrologia Orientalis, 4.3). Paris: 215-312.
A. Scher (1910) Histoire nestorienne inédite (Chronique de Séert). Première partie, Fasc.2 (Patrologia Orientalis, 5.2). Paris: 221-334.
H. Teule (2009) 'L'abrégé de la chronique ecclésiastique (Muḫtaṣār al-aḫbār al-bī‘iyya) et la Chronique de Séert: Quelques sondages'. In: L'historiographie syriaque, ed. M. Debié (Études syriaques, 6). Paris: 161-177.