The Book of the Himyarites. Fragments of a hitherto unknown Syriac work edited, with introduction and translation

Title page......Page 1 Preface ......Page 5 Contents......Page 7 Introduction......Page 9 A MANUSCRIPT AND ITS BOARDS......Page 11 THE REMNANTS OF AN OLD CODEX......Page 13 TABLE OF QUIRES......Page 18 TABLE OF FRAGMENTS......Page 23 THE BOOK OF THE HIMYARITES AND. ITS RELATION TO OTHER NARRATIVES ON THE ABYSSINIAN - HIMYARITIC STRUGGLES......Page 24 THE PROFANE TRADITION......Page 41 THE MUHAMMADAN TRADITION......Page 43 REMARKS ON THE NARRATIVE OF THE BOOK OF THE HIMYARITES......Page 47 THE SOURCES OF THE BOOK OF THE HIMYARITES AND ITS AUTHOR......Page 63 THE HISTORICAL VALUE OF THE BOOK OF THE HIMYARITES......Page 67 a) Prefatory remarks on the Personal Names......Page 78 b) List of Names of Persons and Places......Page 84 TRANSLATION......Page 99 [Index of accounts]......Page 101 VIII. Account telling of the lirst persecution by Masruq, the crucifier, and of the burning of the church in the town of Zafar, and the massacre of all who were in it......Page 105 IX. Account telling of the coming of Masruq to the town of Najran......Page 107 (Chapter XIII)......Page 109 XIV. The martyrdom of coronation in the Lord by burning in fire of the pure blessed ZRWYba......Page 110 (Chapter XVI)......Page 112 (Chapter XIX)......Page 114 Names of the glorious freeborn men who suffered martyrdom at Najran......Page 116 XX. Account that tells of the confession first and further of the martyrdom of coronation in the Lord of the freeborn women of the town of Najran and of their young children with them......Page 117 Names of the holy women who suffered martyrdom in the town of Najran......Page 121 XXI. Account that tells first of the confession and further afterwards also of the martyrdom in the Lord of the freeborn women Habsa and Hayya and another Hayya......Page 122 XXII. Account telling of the martyrdom of coronation in the Lord of the freeborn Ruhm, daughter of Azma', and Aumah, her daughter, and Ruhm, her granddaughter......Page 127 XXIII. Another martyrdom of many freeborn women of the town of Najran......Page 133 (Chapter XLII)......Page 134 (Chapter XLIII)......Page 135 XLIV. Account of the confessors who were released from Najran, [and of] the sign of the cross that the Himyarites showed on their hands......Page 137 (Chapter XLVI)......Page 139 XLVII. Account that tells how this believing Kaleb, King of Abyssinia, by his authority appointed a king in the land of the Himyarites......Page 140 XLVIII. The second speech that the believing King Kaleb spoke to them who repented after having denied......Page 141 XLIX. Concluding discourse of this book after the departure of the believing Kaleb, (King of the Abyssinians, from the land of the Himyarites].......Page 142 NOTES ON THE SYRIAC TEXT......Page 147 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS......Page 171 Syriac Text ......Page 173 Facsimiles ......Page 234