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Joshua the Stylite

Also: Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite

Born: the year and the place are not known. Died: the year and the place are not known.

Name given by a later scribe to the unknown writer of an eyewitness chronicle of Edessa in the years 494 to 506.

Wrote in Syriac.

Places lived

  1. 494 to 507Edessa (now Şanlıurfa, Turkey)writeryears probable, place probable

Works

1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.

Filed here, not written by Joshua the Stylite

These texts are about this person, hold what this person said, or carry this name without good reason. Each page says which.

How we know the dates and places
Born not known
F. R. Trombley and J. W. Watt, The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite (2000), introduction; W. Wright (1882), preface, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/joshua_the_stylite_00_eintro.htm
Place of birth not known
F. R. Trombley and J. W. Watt, The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite (2000), introduction; W. Wright (1882), preface, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/joshua_the_stylite_00_eintro.htm
Died not known
F. R. Trombley and J. W. Watt, The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite (2000), introduction; W. Wright (1882), preface, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/joshua_the_stylite_00_eintro.htm
Place of death not known
F. R. Trombley and J. W. Watt, The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite (2000), introduction; W. Wright (1882), preface, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/joshua_the_stylite_00_eintro.htm
Edessa, years probable
F. R. Trombley and J. W. Watt, The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite (2000), introduction; W. Wright (1882), preface, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/joshua_the_stylite_00_eintro.htm
Edessa, place probable
F. R. Trombley and J. W. Watt, The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite (2000), introduction; W. Wright (1882), preface, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/joshua_the_stylite_00_eintro.htm