Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite - (Translated Texts for Historians) by Pseudo-Joshua The Stylite (Paperback)

About the Book

This is a Syriac text written, in all probability, by an inhabitant of Edessa almost immediately after the conclusion of the war between Rome and Persia in 502-506 AD. Although that conflict is treated in other ancient texts, none of them can match 'Joshua' in his wealth of detail, his familiarity with the region where the hostilities occurred, and his proximity in time to the events. The Chronicle also vividly describes the famine and plague that swept through Edessa in the years immediately before the war. The work is a document of great importance for both the social and military history of late antiquity, remarkable for the information it provides on Roman and Persian empires alike.

Book Synopsis

This is a Syriac text written, in all probability, by an inhabitant of Edessa almost immediately after the conclusion of the war between Rome and Persia in 502-506 AD. Although that conflict is treated in other ancient texts, none of them can match 'Joshua' in his wealth of detail, his familiarity with the region where the hostilities occurred, and his proximity in time to the events. The Chronicle also vividly describes the famine and plague that swept through Edessa in the years immediately before the war. The work is a document of great importance for both the social and military history of late antiquity, remarkable for the information it provides on Roman and Persian empires alike.

About the Author

Frank R. Trombley is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Religious and Theological Studies at University of Wales, Cardiff, and author of Hellenic Religion and Christianization. John W. Watt is a member of the Department of Religious Studies at Cardiff University. Among his publications are Philoxenus of Mabbug: Fragments of the Commentary on Matthew and Luke and The Fifth Book of the Rhetoric of Antony of Tagrit.