Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle 178.22-27
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Caesarea Maritima is indirectly attested at Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle 178.22-27. This passage was written ca. ca. 810-814 C.E. possibly in Cyzicus. 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.

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.

[Ed. de Boor 1883]

[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.

[Revised from Mango, Scott, and Greatrex 1997]

Works Cited

[...] 178.22-27
[...] 271

[* Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Plots 171.6-34

* Cyril of Scythopolis, Life of Sabas 70.172.1-70.173.11

* George Cedrenus 646.22-647.3

* John of Nikiu 93.4-9

* Justinian, Novels 103.2-epil.

* Michael the Syrian 9.21.191 (ed. Chabot)

* Procopius, Secret History 11.24-11.30

* Theophanes the Confessor, Chronography 178.22-27]

[Palestine]

[Jews

Julianus ben Sabar

Justinian I, emperor

Samaritans]

[Byzantine History

Christianity

Government and Law

Judaism

Military]