The Fate of the Jews of Armenia

Moses Khorenats‘i

History of the Armenians 3.35

5th–9th Century

[ . . . ] There arrived a command from King Shapuh that they should destroy and raze the fortifications of all cities and bring the Jews into captivity, including those Jews living by the same Jewish law in Van Tosp whom Barzap‘ran Rshtuni had brought there in the days of Tigran. These Shapuh settled in Isfahan. They also took into captivity the…

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Moses Khorenats‘i

ca. 410s–ca. 490s
Moses (or Movses) Khorenats‘i was a historian of Armenia. Moses’ Patmutyun Hayots (History of the Armenians), written at the behest of the prince, was the first universal history of the region, covering the ancient period until the author’s death, likely in the late fifth century. Moses became a bishop and is venerated as a saint by the Armenian Church.

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