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The author was an amateur historian, and his aim was moral instruction, not history "as such". His work most clearly depended on earlier works, and has thus been accused of plagiarism. However, all point to his being honest about what he recounted. Partially because of these intentions, the author
132:, another Syriac chronographer of the late eighth century (hence the proposed name "Chronicle of Pseudo-Dionysius", used by some scholars). On the publication of the fourth part of the chronicle by Chabot, it was shown by
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Northern Syria, the Jazīra of the Arab sources, had been the homeland of the
Aramaeans since the late second millennium B.C. Syriac-speaking people were the descendants of these Aramaeans, as the expression above
60:. The work is preserved in a single handwritten manuscript (Cod. Vat. 162), now in the Vatican (shelf mark Vatican Syriac 162). The fourth part of the chronicle provides a detailed account of life of
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described, as noted by Amir Harrak, by the extensive use of
Biblical references to animosity between ancient Hebrews and Assyrians, that was a common motif in various medieval chronicles.
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