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Passio sanctorum sexaginta martyrum qui passi sunt a Sarracenis mense Decembre die XVII, in: Acta Sanctorum, first ‎edition‎. Nov. III, edited by Bollandus, J., Brussels, 1910: 247–250.
‎♦ Martyrdom of sixty Byzantine soldiers who surrendered to the Muslims at the siege of Gaza in 637; refusing to abandon Christianity for Islam, they were imprisoned and later executed, some in Jerusalem on 5 November and the rest in Eleutheropolis on 17 December. See also Legenda Flor.

Documenta ad origines Monophysitarum illustrandas, in: Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 17 (Script. Syri 17), edited by Chabot, J. I., Paris, 1908.
‎♦‎ (reprinted Louvain 1952); Latin transl. by idem, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 103 (Script. Syri 52), Paris 1933 (reprinted Louvain 1955)‎ ♦‎ Collection of documents in Syriac pertaining to the history of the Monophysite Church in the fifth–sixth centuries.

Prophetarum vitae fabulosae, edited by Schermann, Th., Leipzig, 1907: 1–106.
‎♦ A collection of legendary traditions concerning the prophets and their burial places, seemingly compiled by Christians in the fourth century, though some scholars believe the tradition to depend on a Jewish text from the Second Temple period.

De prophetarum vita et obitu recensio scholiis Hesychii aliorumque patrum in prophetas adiecta, in: Prophetarum vitae fabulosae (q.v.), edited by Schermann, Th., Leipzig, 1907: 98–104.
‎♦ An anthology of passages on the birth and burial places of the prophets, by various authors, from Hesychius of Jerusalem and Theodoretus (fifth century; Hesych. Hier., Thdt., qq.v.) to the Bulgarian bishop Theophylactus (eleventh century).

De prophetarum vita et obitu libri Epiphanio episcopo adscipti, recensio altera, in: Prophetarum vitae fabulosae (q.v.), edited by Schermann, Th., Leipzig, 1907: 55–67.
‎♦ A different recension of Vita Proph. ps. Epiph., composed in the fourth century; also in PG 43, cols. 393–414

De prophetarum vita et obitu liber ab anonymo quodam conscriptus, in: Prophetarum vitae fabulosae (q.v.), edited by Schermann, Th., Leipzig, 1907: 68–98.
‎♦ A collection of legendary traditions concerning the prophets and their burial places, believed by some scholars to depend on Jewish tradition from the Second Temple period: see P.W. van der Horst, Japheth in the Tents of Shem, Leuven 2002, pp. 119–137. If so, this anonymous Christian recension would be one of the earliest; one MS ascribes it to Origen in the first half of the third century. But according to D. Satran, in Biblical Prophets in Byzantine Palestine: Reassessing the ‘Lives of the Prophets’ (Leiden 1995), the earliest recensions were compiled by Christians in the fourth century.

Legenda sancti Floriani et sociorum suorum (LX martyrum), in: Analecta Bollandiana ‎23, edited by Delehaye, H., 1904: 303–307.
https://doi.org/10.1484/J.ABOL.4.00514

‎♦ Martyrdom in southern Palestine of sixty Byzantine soldiers who surrendered to the Muslims but refused to abandon Christianity for Islam, ca. 638; written in the first half of the seventh century

Vita sancti Xenophontis, in: ‘Vita Xenophontis et sociorum codicibus Florentinis’, Analecta Bollandiana 22, edited by Galante, A., 1903: 383–394.

‎♦ Life of Xenophon, a monk of the Great Laura of Sabas in the fifth century, written by a contemporary.

Vita Gerasimi, in: Αἱ παρὰ τὸν Ἰορδάνην λαῦραι Καλαμῶνος καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου Γερασίμου καὶ οἱ βίοι τοῦ ἁγίου Γερασίμου καὶ Κυριακοῦ τοῦ Ἀναχωρητοῦ, edited by Koikylides, K. M., Jerusalem, 1902: 1–11.
‎♦ Life of Gerasimus, fouder of a laura near the Jordan, d. 475; written in the second half of the sixth century by a monk of the laura but mistakenly ascribed by the editor to Cyril of Scythopolis.