Pseudo-Zacharias Rhetor is the designation used by modern scholarship for the anonymous 6th-century author who compiled a twelve-part history in theSyriac language around 569. It contains portions of the otherwise lostEcclesiastical History of the realZacharias Rhetor.[1]
The history of Pseudo-Zacharias is found a single manuscript, on vellum, nowBritish Library Add MS 17202, dated to around 600. The title of the history as it appears in the manuscript isA Volume of Records of Events Which Have Happened in the World.[2]
In addition to Zacharias Rhetor'sEcclesiastical History, British Library Add MS 17202 also contains:
- A work by Sylvester, bishop of Rome, on the conversion of the Emperor Constantine.
- The finding of two 1st century relics belonging to Stephen and Nicodemus.
- A story of miracles, the Legend of theSeven Sleepers of Ephesus.
- A translation ofJoseph and Aseneth, made byMoses of Ingila in the mid 6th century.
- Two covering letters to "Joseph and Aseneth". The first, by an anonymous individual, provides an account of how the ancient Greek manuscript "Of Aseneth" was found. The second letter is by the Syriac translator, Moses of Ingila. A translation from the Syriac of "Joseph and Aseneth" along with a first ever translation from the Syriac of the two covering letters can be found inSimcha Jacobovici andBarrie Wilson,The Lost Gospel.[3]
- ^Amir Harrak,"Zacharias, Pseudo-", inGorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition, edited by Sebastian P. Brock, Aaron M. Butts, George A. Kiraz and Lucas Van Rompay. Consulted 24 July 2020.
- ^Hamilton F. J. and Brooks, E. W., eds.,The Syriac chronicle known as that of Zachariah of Mitylene. London: Methuen, 1899.
- ^Simcha Jacobovici and Barrie Wilson,The Lost Gospel. New York: Pegasus, 2014.
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