Title(s):
- Book of questions
- ܫܘܐ̈ܠܐ ܕܒܚܕ ܟܬܒܐ ܥܠ ܖ̈ܫܐ ܕܥܡ ܬܫܥܝܬܐ,(šū’ālē da-b-ḥad ktābā ‘al rišē d-‘am taš‘ītā, Questions in one book about [various] points among which history)
- اخبار(akhbār, Stories)
Period covered:
At least late 3rd c.
Language:
Syriac
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
- Ecclesiastical history
Remarks:
The anonymous author of the Abridged ecclesiastical history (Mukhtaṣar al-akhbār al-bī'īyah) quotes a collection of stories of the catholicus Timothy I, referring to Papa being the first catholicus of the Church of the East. According to Teule (2009: 172), this piece of information is more likely to come from Timothy's canonical collection than from a work of history.
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