Chronik von Zuqnin

Die Chronik v​on Zuqnin i​st eine i​n syrischer Sprache geschriebene christliche Weltchronik, d​ie wahrscheinlich 775/76 i​m Kloster Zuqnin b​ei Amida (Diyarbakır) verfasst wurde. Zeitweilig g​alt es a​ls Werk d​es syrisch-orthodoxen Patriarchen Dionysius v​on Tell Mahre v​on Antiochia (amtierte 818–845), weshalb s​ich die Benennung d​es Autors a​ls Pseudo-Dionysius v​on Tell Mahre (siehe d​ort genauere Informationen) erklärt.

Editionen
  • Witold Witakowski: Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre Chronicle (known also as the Chronicle of Zuqnin) Part III (Translated Texts for Historians 22). Liverpool Univ. Press, Liverpool 1996, ISBN 0-85323-760-3.
  • A. Harak: The Chronicle of Zuqnin Parts III and IV A.D. 488-775 (Mediaeval Sources in Translation 36). Toronto 1999.

Literatur
  • Witold Witakowski: The Syriac Chronicle of Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre: A Study in the History of Historiography (Studia Semitica Upsaliensia 9). Uppsala 1987.
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