Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle 178.22-27
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Context
Theophanes, born to noble parents in Constantinople, was raised in the
Palace under Constantine V (740-775 C.E.) He spent much of his career as a member and
leader of monastic communities around the Sea of Marmara, before his condemnation and
exile to Samothrace in 817 C.E. by Leo V the Armenian during the controversies over
Iconoclasm. At the request of George Syncellus, Theophanes wrote a continuation of his
chronicle from Diocletian down to Michael I Rhangabes (284-813 C.E.), in the usual dry
style and format of Byzantine chronography. In his entry for the year 528/93 he depends
on the account of John Malalas for his brief record of the bloody Samaritan uprising led
by Julianus ben Sabar.
Text
Τῷ δὲ Ἰουνίῳ μηνὶ Σαμαρεῖται καὶ Ἰουδαῖοι ἐν Παλαιστίνῃ βασιλέα
Ἰουλιανόν τινα ἔστεψαν καὶ κατὰ Χριστιανῶν ὅπλα κινήσαντες ἁρπαγὰς καὶ φόνους καὶ
ἐμπυρισμοὺς κατὰ Χριστιανῶν εἰργάσαντο. οὓς ὁ θεὸς παρέδωκεν εἰς χεῖρας Ἰουστινιανοῦ,
καὶ ἀνήλωσε πάντας, καὶ ἀπεκεφάλισε τὸν τύραννον Ἰουλιανόν.1
Textual Note
Ed. de Boor 1883Translation
[A.M. 6021=528/9 C.E.]In June, the Samaritans and Jews in
Palestine crowned a certain Julianus as emperor and took up arms against the Christians,
against whom they committed robbery, murder, and arson. God delivered them into the
hands of Justinian. He destroyed them all and beheaded the usurper Julianus.2
Translation Note
Revised from Mango, Scott, and Greatrex 1997Works Cited
- 1 Theophanes the Confessor, Theophanis Chronographia I, ed. Karl de Boor, 2 vols., Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1883), p: 178.22-27.
- 2 Theophanes the Confessor, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor: Byzantine and Near Eastern History, A.D. 284-813, trans. Cyril Mango and Roger Scott (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), p: 271.
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Joseph L. Rife, “Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle 178.22-27,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published June 30, 2023, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/501.
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