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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.GeoffreyGreatrexLe pseudo-Zacharie de Mytilène et l’historiographie syriaque au VI<sup>e</sup> s.http://syriaca.org/cbss/PACMPTAZhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/PACMPTAZhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/PACMPTAZMurielDebiéL’historiographie syriaqueParisGeuthner200933-55Études syriaques 6Geoffrey Greatrex previews his forthcoming translation and study of pseudo Zechariah’s Ecclesiastical History, summarizing the state of research on this important text in the light of the many debates that converged upon it a century ago. Greatrex defends the identity of the historian Zechariah with the lawyer, friend and biographer of Severus of Antioch. This reviewer remains not quite convinced. Honigmann successfully identified the author of the Vita Severi with the author of the anti-Manichaean Antirrhesis, but evidence suggesting that the historian was the same man and indeed that either should be one and the same as an otherwise attested bishop of Mytilene appears in fact to rest upon two or three scribal attributions/guesses, taken up by later collectors and made part of the reception of the Ecclesiastical History. Greatrex (and most modern scholars with him) may be right, but a surer foundation could be laid upon a thorough internal analysis of all the texts and avoiding becoming caught up in the complexities of the ms traditions. This apart, however, the chapter provides a ‘spot-on’ overview of the text, disentangling its transmission history, enumerating its sources, and most importantly interpreting its historiographical significance by suggesting that ps-Zechariah’s optimistic views on the possibility of rapprochement between the Miaphysite church and the Empire were replaced within twenty years by John of Ephesus’ more resigned vision.
Greatrex, Geoffrey. “Le Pseudo-Zacharie de Mytilène et l’historiographie Syriaque Au VIe s.” In L’historiographie Syriaque, edited by Muriel Debié, 33–55. Études Syriaques 6. Paris: Geuthner, 2009.
Geoffrey Greatrex, Le Pseudo-Zacharie de Mytilène et l’historiographie Syriaque Au VIe s., in L’historiographie Syriaque, ed. Muriel Debié, Études Syriaques 6 (Paris: Geuthner, 2009), 33–55.IV-VII CEJacobitesPseudo-ZachariasVI CEZacharias Rhetorchronicleshistoriography