Late Antique Historiography

Capture of Jerusalem

Title(s):
  • Capture of Jerusalem
  • Liber devastationis et capitivitatis Hierosolymae, civitatis sanctae, civitas quae est Iesu Christi, filii David, filii Abraham
    (Liber devastationis et capitivitatis Hierosolymae, civitatis sanctae, civitas quae est Iesu Christi, filii David, filii Abraham, Book on the destruction and taking of Jerusalem, the holy city, the city of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham)
  • წიგნი მოოჴრებისაჲ და წარტყუენვაჲ იერუსალჱმისაჲ, ქალაქისა მის წმიდისაჲ, ქალაქისა მის რომელ არს იესუ ქრისტესი, ძისა დავითისი, ძისა აბრაჰამისი
    (Cigni mooq‘rebisay da cartquenvay ierusalēmisay, k‘alak‘isa mis cmidisay, k‘alak‘isa mis romel ars iesu k‘ristesi, żisa davit‘isi, żisa abrahamisi, The book on the destruction and sack of Jerusalem, the holy city, the city of Jesus Christ, the son of David and the son of Abraham)
  • المصحف على خراب بيت القدس مدينة يسوع المسيح بن داود بن ابرهيم
    (Al-miṣḥaf ‘alā kharāb bayt al-quds madīna īsū‘ l-msīḥa bin dāwid bin Ibrahīm, The book on the devastation of Jerusalem, city of Jesus Christ son of David son of Abraham)
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Period covered:
614-630
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Oration
Remarks:
The text focuses on the sack of Jerusalem in 614, but also includes the return of the Holy Cross. Originally written in Greek, only Georgian and Arabic versions have been preserved.
Edition - Translation:
  • G. Garitte (1960) La prise de Jérusalem par les Perses en 614 (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 203: Scriptores Iberici, 11-12). Leuven.
  • G. Garitte (1973-1974) Expugnationis Hierosolymae A.D. 615: recensiones Arabicae (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 340-341, 347-348: Scriptores Arabici, 26-29). Leuven.
  • F.C. Conybeare (1910) 'Antiochus Strategos: The capture of Jerusalem by the Persians in 614 A.D.'. English Historical Review 25: 502-517.
  • P. Peeters (1951) ‘La prise de Jérusalem par les Perses’. In: Idem, Recherches d’histoire et de philologie orientales. Two Volumes (Subsidia hagiographica, 27). Brussels: Volume One, 78-116.
  • H.R. Marr (1909) Антiохъ Стратигъ: Плѣненiе Iерусалима персами въ 614 г. (Изданiя Факультета Восточныхъ языковъ Императорскаго С.-Петербургскаго Университета 5; Тексты и разысканiя по армяно-грузинской филологiи, 9). Saint Petersburg.
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Bibliography:
  • G. Graf (1923) ‘Die Einnahme Jerusalem durch die Perser 614 nach dem Bericht eines Augenzeuger’. Das Heilige Land 67: 19-29.
  • B.M. Wheeler (1991) ‘Imagining the Sasanian Capture of Jerusalem: The “Prophecy and Dream of Zerubabel” and Antiochus Strategos’ “Capture of Jerusalem”’. Orientalia Christiana periodica 57: 69-85.