The Story of Zosimus[1] (also called the Narration,[1]Apocalypse[1] or Journey of Zosimus[2]) is a Greek text of the 5th century AD.[3] It has sometimes been classified as among the Old Testament pseudepigrapha.[4] In the Middle Ages, it was translated into Syriac, Arabic, Ge'ez, Armenian, Georgian and Slavonic.[2]
There is a history of debate over whether the text is Jewish or Christian in origin, and over its textual history. The Story is divided into 18 chapters, of which chapters 8–10 form a self-contained work conventionally known as the "History of the Rechabites" and chapters 11–16 form a distinct work known as the "Abode of the Blessed". The "History" was once thought to be the original kernel, around which the rest of the text was composed, but this is not generally accepted today. It has even been argued to be a late addition to the text.[5]
The Story is based on the classical legend of the Isles of the Blessed and the biblical passage Jeremiah 35.[2] It shows heavy Hellenic influence, and the narrative is much like a typical Hellenic myth, particularly showing similarity to the tales of the Therapeutae. It begins with Zosimus, a hermit, continually begging God to show him the land of the Rechabites, until God finally relents and sends an angel to lead him there. The Rechabites, led by Jonadab, are described as living without the benefit of human technology, enjoying the company of angels, leading an ascetic life, wearing no clothes and eating only the luxurious fruits that grow on their fragrant island.
The StoryofZosimus (also called the Narration, Apocalypse or Journey ofZosimus) is a Greek text of the 5th century AD. It has sometimes been classified...
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Rechabites. The apocryphal StoryofZosimus, from late antiquity, details the journey of a monk named Zosimus to the "Land of the Rechabites". In 1839 the...
for the enemy of God. D. S. Potter rejects the storyofZosimus about Treboniannus Gallus who supposedly conspired with the enemies of Romans for delivering...
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account. According to Zosimus, Athanaric was king of the Goths. Sometime after their victory at Adrianople, and after the accession of Theodosius, Fritigern...
the East for long enough, he suggests that the similarity ofZosimus' story to the myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus makes its veracity doubtful. He does...
MiliariHispanico 562. Zosimus, New History, I.30.2-3 Zosimus, New History, I.32.1 A. Room, Placenames of the World: Origins and Meanings of the Names for 6...
Advent. Retrieved 15 August 2009. Zosimus, Historia Nova (New History) c. 500. Unknown, trans. The History of Count Zosimus. London: Green and Champlin, 1814...
taken Zosimus' silence on the matter as strong evidence against Philip's alleged Christianity. Others, like historian Warwick Ball, view Zosimus' evident...
This chronological list of popes of the Catholic Church corresponds to that given in the Annuario Pontificio under the heading "I Sommi Pontefici Romani"...
connect the end of the games with a fire that burned down the temple of the Olympian Zeus during Theodosius the second's reign. See: Zosimus. book 5 – via...
386. The story is in both Zosimus IV.35 which names Odotheus, and IV.38-39 which does not name Odotheus but does name the Greuthungi. Zosimus IV.45.2;...
Zosimus claims this force was headed by Gaiso, and that his consulship in 351 was a reward for this act. Magnentius quickly attracted the loyalty of the...
The date of the campaign is uncertain; Zosimus placed it after the Battle of Naissus and before Claudius' death, which sets it in the summer of 270. Watson...
of Maximian and wife of Constantine the Great, who had her executed and excluded from all official accounts for unknown reasons. Historians Zosimus and...
Promotus. Zosimus gives two versions (4.35 and 4.38-9), generally thought to be of the same story; the second version calls them Grothingi and speaks of a betrayal...
Lactantius, Eusebius) or superstition (e.g. Zosimus). They also note that the day of the battle was the same as the day of his accession (28 October), which was...
allegiance,” claimed that he was proclaimed emperor against his will, but Zosimus portrays him as inciting the troops to rebel against Gratian, as he was...
and Zosimus claim a total number of 2,000–6,000 ships and 325,000 men. This is probably a gross exaggeration but remains indicative of the scale of the...
itself falls into the Adriatic sea. Zosimus wrote that after they left from the Aeëtes, they arrived at the mouth of the Ister river which it discharges...
Victor (c. 400), Epitome de Caesaribus Zosimus (c. 500), Historia Nova Joannes Zonaras (c. 1120), Compendium of History extract: Alexander Severus to Diocletian:...
Coriolanus, a storyof politics and morality. The Etruscan city of Corythus as the "cradle" of Trojan and Italian civilization. The arrival of the Great Mother...
foundation eight hundred years before. Rhea, called "the mother of the gods" by Zosimus, had a well-ensconced cult in Byzantium from its very foundation. [...]...
Gregory of Tours, ii.8; Zosimus, v.36.1; Chronica gallica 452, 100. Cited in Jones, p. 21. Carpilio had been a comes domesticorum, commander of the imperial...
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