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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.MurielDebiéL’héritage de l’historiographie grecquehttp://syriaca.org/cbss/IQ98YSAShttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/IQ98YSAShttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/IQ98YSASMurielDebiéL’historiographie syriaqueParisGeuthner200911-31Études syriaques 6Muriel Debié raises the question of the extent and manner of Hellenic influence in Syriac historiography. The earliest Syriac ‘history’ (ps-Joshua the Stylite) is of a type with its Hellenic partners among late antique Byzantine histories, and is best treated as an example of that genre (‘les frontiers sont poreuses’). Thereafter the influence of the Chronicle of Eusebius became fundamental to all West Syrian chronography, which should be viewed as an offshoot of the Classical tradition, but one which developed its own format of separating civil and ecclesiastical history in response to the emergence of a politically independent anti-Chalcedonian church in the sixth century. Debié shows how the historiographical tradition within the (Persian) Church of the East was rather more the successor of hagiography and martyr narrative than of classical literary types. Collections of lives began to be gathered together to illustrate the histories of towns or monasteries, often on the model of the histories of philosophical schools. There is in fact a suggestive parallel between these Syriac productions and the pagan institutional (philosophical) histories of the same period – in both cases a sort of extended martyr narrative written under threat of religiously-motivated shut-down.
Debié, Muriel. “L’héritage de l’historiographie Grecque.” In L’historiographie Syriaque, edited by Muriel Debié, 11–31. Études Syriaques 6. Paris: Geuthner, 2009.
Muriel Debié, L’héritage de l’historiographie Grecque, in L’historiographie Syriaque, ed. Muriel Debié, Études Syriaques 6 (Paris: Geuthner, 2009), 11–31.Chronicle of Joshua the StyliteEusebius of CaesareaGreek literatureIV-VII CEJacobitesNestoriansVII-XVIII CEchronicleshagiographyhistoriography