Earthquake(s) |
Source(s) |
Incense Road Quake |
Guidoboni et al (1994) opined that Elias' source
for the Incense Road Quake/
Eusebius Mystery Quake was Eusebius' account. Elias listed his source as the
Chronological Canon of Andronicus. |
Jordan Valley Quake(s) |
Elias cited his source for the
Jordan Valley Quake(s) as
Jesudenah of Basra who is hypothesized to be the same source used by Theophanes for his earthquake account. |
717 CE Quake |
Elias of Nisibis cited the lost history of Musa al-Khwarizmi’
as his source for the 717 CE Quake. |
749 CE Sabbatical Year Quake(s) |
Elias of Nisibis cited the lost history of Musa al-Khwarizmi’
and Daniel the Jacobite
(aka Daniel, son of Moses of Tur Abdin) as his source for the
749 CE Sabbatical Year Quake(s) |