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Arbela, Chronicle of

ARBELA, CRONACA DI

By Ignazio Ortiz de Urbina

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ARBELA, Chronicle of. - A Syriac document published by A. Mingana (Sources Syriagues, I, Leipzig 1907) and then copiously exploited by all those who study the origins of Christianity in the capital of Adiabene and of all Persia. The historical authority of this chronicle is today diminished, since criticism has detected in it legendary elements, contradictions and suspect reports. Its author would be a certain Mēšihā-Zēkā, who must have written it around the middle of the 6th century in Adiabene.

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BIBL.: E. Sachau, Die Chronik von A., Berlin 1915; Fr. Zorell (Latin version), in Orient. Christiana, 7 (1927), pp. 144-204; G. Messina, La Cr. di A., in La Civ. Catt., 1932, III, pp. 362-376; I. Ortiz de Urbina, Intorno al valore storico della Cr. di A., in Or. Chr. Per., 2 (1936), pp. 5-32, with bibliography.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), coll. 1772–1773.

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Ortiz, de Urbina Ignazio. “Arbela, cronaca di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, coll. 1772–1773. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/arbela-cronaca-di.

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Ortiz, de Urbina Ignazio. “Arbela, cronaca di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, coll. 1772–1773. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/arbela-cronaca-di.

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@incollection{ec1_arbela_cronaca_di,
  author    = {Ortiz, de Urbina Ignazio},
  title     = {Arbela, cronaca di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {1772--1773},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/arbela-cronaca-di}
}

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