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Joshua the Stylite

Christian monk
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Joshua the Stylite (flourished 6th century ad) was a monk of the convent of Zuknin and the reputed author of a chronicle covering mainly the period 495–506. Incorporated in a history that some have ascribed to Dionysius Telmaharensis but others regard as anonymous, the chronicle was written at the request of Sergius, abbot of a convent near Edessa (modern Urfa, in Turkey), immediately after the war between the Persian and Byzantine empires (502–506), by one...

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