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Time Immemorial: Archaic History and Its Sources in Christian Chronography from Julius Africanus to George Syncellus

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At the beginning of the ninth century, George Syncellus, a Byzantine monk and chronographer, composed a chronicle of universal history commencing with the first day of creation. Syncellus cites abundantly from a great variety of ancient sources, especially in his treatment of antediluvian history. His sources include excerpts from the histories and chronicles of Egypt and the Ancient Near East, Hermetic literature, as well as Jewish and Christian pseudepigrapha. Supplementing Syncellus with fragments from these same sources in other Christian chronicles, this work examines how Christian chronographers integrated non-biblical sources into their treatment of archaic chronology and traces the transmission and interpretation of these sources by four Christian chronographers whom Syncellus expressly identifies as his chief authorities: Julius Africanus, Eusebius of Caesarea, and two fifth-century Alexandrian monks, Pandorus and Annianus.
Request Code : ZLIBIO3863025
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Year:
1989
Publisher:
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Language:
English
Pages:
272
ISBN 10:
0884021769
ISBN 13:
9780884021766
ISBN:
0884021769,9780884021766
Series:
Dumbarton Oaks Studies, 26

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