The Fate of the Jews of Cappadocia
[ . . . ] In the 20th year of King Khosrow Shahēn made an incursion, raiding the regions of the west and reaching Caesarea of Cappadocia. Then the Christian inhabitants of the city left the city and departed. But the Jews went out to meet him and submitted. He stayed in that city for a year. [ . . . ]
Translated by Robert W. Thomson.
Credits
Sebeos, History 33, from The Armenian History Attributed to Sebeos, trans. Robert W. Thomson, Translated Texts for Historians, vol. 31 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999), p. 64. Copyright © 1999 R. W. Thomson, James Howard-Johnston. Reproduced with permission of Liverpool University Press through PLSclear.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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