In the late 1230s or in the 1240s, a Syriac Orthodox historian continued
a Syriac Chronicle up to the Year 1204. The result, the Anonymous Syriac
Chronicle up to the Year 1234, is the subject of this monograph. While
accepting the chronicle's import for the history of the city of Edessa,
the Syriac Orthodox Church and the Crusades, this study approaches the
text from a literary historical standpoint, as a valuable source for
historical, hagiographical, apocryphal, exegetical and epistolary
traditions, taken from extant as well as now lost sources. Through the
deconstruction of a process of intercultural transmission that began in
the fourth or third century BC, it reveals the influence of a wide range
of Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources, written in Syriac, Hebrew,
Greek and Arabic, and reconstructs some of the chronicle's now lost
sources such as the chronicle of Andronicus and a medieval Greek history
along the way.