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<h2 id="published-editions">Published editions</h2> <h3>Syriac</h3> <ul><li><a href="http://www.aramaic-dem.org/English/History/Chronicle%20of%20Edessa.pdf">"Vatican Syriac 163"</a> (PDF). Brigham Young University. 2004. Retrieved 26 December 2017.</li> <li>Guidi, Ignatius, ed. (1903). <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171106192919/https://cpart.mi.byu.edu/home/sec/digital-texts/chronicles/chronicle-of-edessa/"><i>Chronica minora</i></a>. Corpus scriptorum christianorum orientalium. Leipzig/Paris: Harrassowitz. pp. 1–13. Archived from <a href="https://cpart.mi.byu.edu/home/sec/digital-texts/chronicles/chronicle-of-edessa/">the original</a> on 6 November 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.</li></ul> <h3>English</h3> <ul><li>Cowper, Benjamin Harris (1865). <a href="https://archive.org/stream/journalsacredli17unkngoog#page/n42/mode/1up">"The Chronicle of Edessa"</a>. <i>Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record</i>. 5 (9): 28–45. (<a href="http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/chronicle_of_edessa.htm">Transcription by Robert Pearse</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <h2 id="citations">Citations</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Wilhelm_Baum_(historian)/g6knl0G7">Baum, Wilhelm</a>; Winkler, Dietmar W. (2003). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=CnSCAgAAQBAJ"><i>The Church of the East: A Concise History</i></a>. London-New York: Routledge-Curzon. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9781134430192.</li> <li><a href="/facts/F._L._Cross/GRqyQRAx">Cross, F. L.</a>; <a href="/facts/E._A._Livingstone/mdmcgdz7">Livingstone, E. A.</a>, eds. (2009) [2005]. <a href="https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192802903.001.0001/acref-9780192802903-e-1427?rskey=yZ5Yuy">"Chronicon Edessenum"</a>. <i>Chronicon Edessenum (Edessene Chronicle)</i>. <i>The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church</i> (3rd rev. ed.). Oxford University Press. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780192802903.</li> <li>Ferguson, Everett (1999). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=GC4vwTXJSaMC&pg=PA267"><i>Doctrinal Diversity: Varieties of Early Christianity</i></a>. Doctrinal Diversity: Varieties of Early Christianity. Vol. 4. Garland Pub. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-8153-3071-4.</li> <li>Frenschkowski, Marco (2015). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=cm_-CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA464">"Christianity"</a>. In Stausberg, M.; Vevaina, Y.S.D.; Tessmann, A. (eds.). <i>The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism</i>. Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion. Wiley. p. 457ff. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-118-78627-7.</li> <li>Griffith, Sidney H. (1991). <a href="http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195046526.001.0001/acref-9780195046526-e-1068">"Chronicle of Edessa"</a>. In <a href="/facts/Alexander_Kazhdan/VkGPcSod">Kazhdan, Alexander</a> (ed.). <i><a href="/facts/Oxford_Dictionary_of_Byzantium/nSyEY2RN">The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium</a></i>. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-19-504652-8.(subscription required)</li> <li>Myers, S.E. (2010). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=R7oK3kaI4U0C&pg=PA35"><i>Spirit Epicleses in the Acts of Thomas</i></a>. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. Coronet Books Incorporated. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3-16-149472-7.</li> <li>Palmer, Andrew (1999). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=c788wWR_bLwC&pg=PA421">"Edessa"</a>. In Bowersock, G.W.; Brown, P.; Grabar, O. (eds.). <a href="https://archive.org/details/lateantiquitygui00bowe/page/421"><i>Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World</i></a>. Harvard University Press Refer. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. <a href="https://archive.org/details/lateantiquitygui00bowe/page/421">421</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-674-51173-6.</li> <li>Samuel, G.J.; Santiago, J.B.; Thiagarajan, P. (2008). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=oJtAAQAAIAAJ&q=November+201+chronicle+edessa+flood"><i>Early Christianity in India: (with parallel developments in other parts of Asia)</i></a>. Madras, India: Institute of Asian Studies. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-81-87892-40-3.</li> <li>Schnabel, Eckhard J. (2004). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=jBNPAQAAIAAJ&q=November+201+chronicle+flood"><i>Early Christian Mission: Jesus and the Twelve</i></a>. Early Christian Mission. InterVarsity Press. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-84474-045-1.</li> <li>Teixidor, J. (2015). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=m5Z9BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA148"><i>The Pagan God: Popular Religion in the Greco-Roman Near East</i></a>. Princeton Legacy Library. Princeton University Press. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-4008-7139-1.</li> <li>Witakowski, Witold (2018). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=A09WDwAAQBAJ&q=oxford%20dictionary%20of%20late%20antiquity">"Chronicle of Edessa"</a>. In Nicholson, Oliver (ed.). <i><a href="/facts/The_Oxford_Dictionary_of_Late_Antiquity/Fp078vMt">The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity</a></i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 336. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-19-866277-8.</li> <li>Yamauchi, E.M. (1983). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Iw2KAAAAMAAJ"><i>Pre-Christian Gnosticism: A Survey of the Proposed Evidences</i></a>. Twin brooks series. Baker Book House. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-8010-9919-9.</li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li>Brock, Sebastian P. (2011) [1991]. <a href="http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/chronicle-of-edessa-a-short-local-history-of-edessa-modern-urfa-written-in-syriac-by-an-anonymous-author-and-covering-c">"Chronicle of Edessa"</a>. In Daniel, Elton (ed.). <i>Encyclopædia Iranica</i>. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.</li> <li>Ginkel, Jan van (2016). "Chronicon Edessenum". In Dunphy, Graeme; Bratu, Cristian (eds.). <i><a href="/facts/Encyclopedia_of_the_Medieval_Chronicle/Ncwsmel4">Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle</a></i>. Brill. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1163%2F2213-2139_emc_SIM_00506">10.1163/2213-2139_emc_SIM_00506</a>.</li> <li>Witakowski, Witold (1984). "Chronicles of Edessa". <i>Orientalia Suecana</i>. 33: 487–498.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Per Griffith 1991; Witakowski 2018, p. 336, translates it as Stories of Events in Brief. - Griffith, Sidney H. (1991). "Chronicle of Edessa". In Kazhdan, Alexander (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504652-8. <a href="http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195046526.001.0001/acref-9780195046526-e-1068" target="_blank">http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195046526.001.0001/acref-9780195046526-e-1068</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Dates given are: mid-6th century (Ferguson 1999, p. 267), 540 CE (Palmer 1999, p. 421), 550 CE (Schnabel 2004, p. 899; Yamauchi 1983, p. 85). Samuel, Santiago & Thiagarajan (2008) claim without explanation that it was written in 590 CE (p. 97). - Ferguson, Everett (1999). Doctrinal Diversity: Varieties of Early Christianity. Doctrinal Diversity: Varieties of Early Christianity. Vol. 4. Garland Pub. ISBN 978-0-8153-3071-4. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=GC4vwTXJSaMC&pg=PA267" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=GC4vwTXJSaMC&pg=PA267</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Palmer 1999, p. 421. - Palmer, Andrew (1999). "Edessa". In Bowersock, G.W.; Brown, P.; Grabar, O. (eds.). Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World. Harvard University Press Refer. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 421. ISBN 978-0-674-51173-6. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=c788wWR_bLwC&pg=PA421" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=c788wWR_bLwC&pg=PA421</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Teixidor 2015, p. 148. - Teixidor, J. (2015). The Pagan God: Popular Religion in the Greco-Roman Near East. Princeton Legacy Library. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-7139-1. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=m5Z9BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA148" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=m5Z9BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA148</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 13. - Baum, Wilhelm; Winkler, Dietmar W. (2003). The Church of the East: A Concise History. London-New York: Routledge-Curzon. ISBN 9781134430192. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=CnSCAgAAQBAJ" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=CnSCAgAAQBAJ</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Yamauchi 1983, p. 85. - Yamauchi, E.M. (1983). Pre-Christian Gnosticism: A Survey of the Proposed Evidences. Twin brooks series. Baker Book House. ISBN 978-0-8010-9919-9. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Iw2KAAAAMAAJ" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=Iw2KAAAAMAAJ</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Cross & Livingstone 2009. - Cross, F. L.; Livingstone, E. A., eds. (2009) [2005]. "Chronicon Edessenum". Chronicon Edessenum (Edessene Chronicle). The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd rev. ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192802903. <a href="https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192802903.001.0001/acref-9780192802903-e-1427?rskey=yZ5Yuy" target="_blank">https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192802903.001.0001/acref-9780192802903-e-1427?rskey=yZ5Yuy</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Brigham Young University 2004. - "Vatican Syriac 163" (PDF). Brigham Young University. 2004. Retrieved 26 December 2017. <a href="http://www.aramaic-dem.org/English/History/Chronicle%20of%20Edessa.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.aramaic-dem.org/English/History/Chronicle%20of%20Edessa.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Witakowski 2018, p. 336. - Witakowski, Witold (2018). "Chronicle of Edessa". In Nicholson, Oliver (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 336. ISBN 978-0-19-866277-8. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=A09WDwAAQBAJ&q=oxford%20dictionary%20of%20late%20antiquity" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=A09WDwAAQBAJ&q=oxford%20dictionary%20of%20late%20antiquity</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Cross & Livingstone 2009. - Cross, F. L.; Livingstone, E. A., eds. (2009) [2005]. "Chronicon Edessenum". Chronicon Edessenum (Edessene Chronicle). The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd rev. ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192802903. <a href="https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192802903.001.0001/acref-9780192802903-e-1427?rskey=yZ5Yuy" target="_blank">https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192802903.001.0001/acref-9780192802903-e-1427?rskey=yZ5Yuy</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Brigham Young University 2004. - "Vatican Syriac 163" (PDF). Brigham Young University. 2004. Retrieved 26 December 2017. <a href="http://www.aramaic-dem.org/English/History/Chronicle%20of%20Edessa.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.aramaic-dem.org/English/History/Chronicle%20of%20Edessa.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Witakowski 2018, p. 336. - Witakowski, Witold (2018). "Chronicle of Edessa". In Nicholson, Oliver (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 336. ISBN 978-0-19-866277-8. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=A09WDwAAQBAJ&q=oxford%20dictionary%20of%20late%20antiquity" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=A09WDwAAQBAJ&q=oxford%20dictionary%20of%20late%20antiquity</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>Witakowski 2018, p. 336. - Witakowski, Witold (2018). "Chronicle of Edessa". In Nicholson, Oliver (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 336. ISBN 978-0-19-866277-8. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=A09WDwAAQBAJ&q=oxford%20dictionary%20of%20late%20antiquity" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=A09WDwAAQBAJ&q=oxford%20dictionary%20of%20late%20antiquity</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>Cross & Livingstone 2009. - Cross, F. L.; Livingstone, E. A., eds. (2009) [2005]. "Chronicon Edessenum". Chronicon Edessenum (Edessene Chronicle). The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd rev. ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192802903. <a href="https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192802903.001.0001/acref-9780192802903-e-1427?rskey=yZ5Yuy" target="_blank">https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192802903.001.0001/acref-9780192802903-e-1427?rskey=yZ5Yuy</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>Ferguson 1999, p. 267. - Ferguson, Everett (1999). Doctrinal Diversity: Varieties of Early Christianity. Doctrinal Diversity: Varieties of Early Christianity. Vol. 4. Garland Pub. ISBN 978-0-8153-3071-4. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=GC4vwTXJSaMC&pg=PA267" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=GC4vwTXJSaMC&pg=PA267</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>Schnabel 2004, p. 899. - Schnabel, Eckhard J. (2004). Early Christian Mission: Jesus and the Twelve. Early Christian Mission. InterVarsity Press. ISBN 978-1-84474-045-1. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=jBNPAQAAIAAJ&q=November+201+chronicle+flood" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=jBNPAQAAIAAJ&q=November+201+chronicle+flood</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:17"><p>Myers 2010, p. 35. - Myers, S.E. (2010). Spirit Epicleses in the Acts of Thomas. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. Coronet Books Incorporated. ISBN 978-3-16-149472-7. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=R7oK3kaI4U0C&pg=PA35" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=R7oK3kaI4U0C&pg=PA35</a> <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:18"><p>Frenschkowski 2015, p. 464. - Frenschkowski, Marco (2015). "Christianity". In Stausberg, M.; Vevaina, Y.S.D.; Tessmann, A. (eds.). The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism. Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion. Wiley. p. 457ff. ISBN 978-1-118-78627-7. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=cm_-CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA464" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=cm_-CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA464</a> <a href="#fnref:18" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:19"><p>Schnabel 2004, p. 899. - Schnabel, Eckhard J. (2004). Early Christian Mission: Jesus and the Twelve. Early Christian Mission. InterVarsity Press. ISBN 978-1-84474-045-1. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=jBNPAQAAIAAJ&q=November+201+chronicle+flood" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=jBNPAQAAIAAJ&q=November+201+chronicle+flood</a> <a href="#fnref:19" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:20"><p>Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 13. - Baum, Wilhelm; Winkler, Dietmar W. (2003). The Church of the East: A Concise History. London-New York: Routledge-Curzon. ISBN 9781134430192. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=CnSCAgAAQBAJ" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=CnSCAgAAQBAJ</a> <a href="#fnref:20" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:21"><p>Yamauchi 1983, p. 85. - Yamauchi, E.M. (1983). Pre-Christian Gnosticism: A Survey of the Proposed Evidences. Twin brooks series. Baker Book House. ISBN 978-0-8010-9919-9. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Iw2KAAAAMAAJ" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=Iw2KAAAAMAAJ</a> <a href="#fnref:21" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>