Chronicle of Seert

The Chronicle of Seert (also: Se`ert , Siirt or in Germany Söört ) is a Christian-Arabic chronicle that was probably created around 1036 . The content is based on various Syrian sources, including a church history from the 7th century, written by Daniel bar Maryam . The name of the chronicle is based on the place where the manuscript was found, the place Siirt in Turkey. The surviving part of the chronicle describes the period from 251 to 422 and from 484 to 650 and is written from a Nestorian perspective.

The chronicle contains important information about the situation of Christians in the Sassanid Empire , the Christianization of the city of Merw , but also provides information about the military operations during the time of Shapur I and contains a catalog of the writings of Theodor von Mopsuestia .

Editions / translations

Addai Scher et al. a. (Ed.): Patrologia Orientalis . Vol. IV.3, V.2, VII.2 and XIII.4. Paris 1908–19 (text with French translation).

literature

Philip Wood: The Chronicle of Seert: Christian Historical Imagination in Late Antique Iraq . Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-967067-3 .

Web links

Table of contents with bibliography

Remarks

↑ This dating, which is often assumed in research, is, however, controversial, cf. to Robert G. Hoyland , Seeing Islam as Others Saw It. A Survey and Evaluation of Christian ,. Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam , Princeton 1997, pp. 443ff.
↑ On Daniel see, inter alia, William Wright, A Short History of Syriac Literature , London 1894 (ND 2005), p. 180.

[1] This dating, which is often assumed in research, is, however, controversial, cf. to Robert G. Hoyland , Seeing Islam as Others Saw It. A Survey and Evaluation of Christian ,. Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam , Princeton 1997, pp. 443ff.

[2] On Daniel see, inter alia, William Wright, A Short History of Syriac Literature , London 1894 (ND 2005), p. 180.