Judas (chronicler)

Judas was a Christian writer living in the early 3rd century.

Judas is mentioned by the late antique bishop and church historian Eusebios von Kaisareia in his church history :

Around this time, Judas, another writer, chronographed the tenth year of the reign of Severus in a treatise on the seventy weeks of Daniel. He believed that the much talked about appearance of the Antichrist was already at hand. So much had the persecution raging against us at that time excited the minds of the masses.

Apparently on the basis of the description in Eusebios, Hieronymus reports briefly about the author. Judas wrote a Christian chronicle that lasted until the tenth year of the emperor Septimius Severus (202/203) and was apparently written in the form of a commentary on the Book of Daniel with regard to the supposedly approaching end times . He should have published the work shortly afterwards. Research has also suggested that the closing date of the Jude Chronicles could represent the year 148. In any case, his work was apparently older than the well-known Christian world chronicle of Sextus Iulius Africanus . It must, however, remain open whether Africanus used the work of Judas.

See also No. 261 in The Fragments of the Greek Historians (Greek text and commentary by Felix Jacoby ) and Brill's New Jacoby (text, English translation, commentary and biographical sketch by Robert M. Frakes).

literature

• Alexander Weiß: The Leipzig World Chronicle - the oldest Christian world chronicle? . In: Archiv für Papyrusforschung 56, 2010, pp. 26–37.

Remarks

1. ↑ Eusebios. Church history , 6.7. Translation by P. Häuser (Library of the Church Fathers, 2nd row, Volume 1), Munich 1932.
2. ↑ Hieronymus, De viris illustribus 52.
3. ^ White, Die Leipziger Weltchronik , p. 35.
4. ^ White, Die Leipziger Weltchronik , pp. 35f.
5. ↑ See Heinrich Gelzer : Sextus Iulius Africanus and the Byzantine Chronography . Vol. 1, Leipzig 1880, p. 23 f.