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Distributed for Liverpool University Press

Translated by Andrew Palmer

Seventh Century in the West Syrian Chronicles

352 pages,     © 1993
Series: Liverpool University Press - Translated Texts for Historians

Paper $25.00

ISBN: 9780853232384   Published May 1993
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INTRODUCTION
(i) The confessional background
(ii) The historical context (by R. H.)
(iii) The texts
(iv) Chronology and Chronological tables
Select bibliography of West-Syrian chronicles
Abbreviations, brackets, signs
 
PART ONE
Minor West-Syrian Chronography
1. A record of the Arab conquest of Syria, AD 637
2. Extract from a chronicle composed about AD 640
3. Extract from the Melkite Chronicle (AD 642+)
4. Extract from the Maronite Chronicle (AD 664+)
5. Fragment of James of Edessa, AD 691/2
6. A list of caliphs, composed after AD 705
7. A chronicle of disasters dated AD 716 (tr. S. P. B.)
8. A list of caliphs from the Arabic (AD 724+)
9. Extract from an 'Account', written in AD 775
10. Extract from the Chronicle of Zuqnin, AD 775
11. Inscriptions of Ehnesh, late eighth century
12. Extracts from two chronicles up to AD 819/846
 
PART TWO
Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, Secular History, introduction
Concordance of the contents
13. Extract from the Chronicle of AD 1234
 
PART THREE
Two Apocalyptic Texts of AD 691+ (by S. P. B.)
14. Extract from the Apocalypse of Ps.-Methodius
15. The Edessene Apocalyptic Fragment
 
Epilogue
Appendices, Index and Maps
Subjects



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