Daniel bar Maryam

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Daniel bar Maryam (or Mariam) was a historian and chronographer of the Church of the East who lived in the 7th century.

Daniel is known to have been a contemporary of the Patriarch Ishoʿyahb III (r. 649–659). [1] [2] He may be the same person as Daniel bar Ṭubanitha. [1]

Daniel wrote a four-volume Ecclesiastical History in Syriac that does not survive, but is mentioned by the Patriarch Timothy I, Pseudo-George of Arbela and Ishoʿdad of Merv. [1] [3] It is cited or quoted five times in the Arabic Chronicle of Siirt , [1] [4] but whether it was used directly may be doubted. [5] It is one of three lost 7th-century histories that the anonymous author of the Chronicle appears to have had access to, along with those of Elias of Merv and Bar Sahde. [1] According to Daniel, as cited by the Chronicle, the Patriarch Ahha wrote the biography of his master, the Life of ʿAbda of Deir Qoni, during his patriarchate. [6] He is also cited in a passage on Demetrianus of Antioch. Philip Wood, however, doubts that Daniel is the main source for these passages. [7] Daniel is quoted on the successors of Demetrianus: a certain Azdaq in Gundeshapur and Paul of Samosata at Antioch. [8]

According to ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha's list of Syriac authors, composed in the 14th century, Daniel also wrote an exposition of the Chronicon of Eusebius. [3]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Van Rompay 2018.
  2. ↑ Hoyland 1997, p. 444.
  3. 1 2 Wood 2013, p. 123.
  4. ↑ Hoyland 1997, p. 392.
  5. ↑ Brock 1976, pp. 25–26.
  6. ↑ Wood 2013, pp. 9–10, 75.
  7. ↑ Wood 2013, p. 88.
  8. ↑ Wood 2013, pp. 90–91.

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