Biblical Archaeology Review

Antiochus Strategos, The Capture of Jerusalem in A.D. 614, trans. from Georgian by Frederick C. Conybeare, English Historical Review 25 (1910), pp. 502–517, at p. 515, online at http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/antiochus_strategos_capture.htm. The numbers of the dead in the Nea are given differently here in the Georgian and Arabic manuscripts, either 600 (Georgian) or 290 (Arabic) (p. 515). The total number of Christians massacred in Jerusalem by the Persians, according to the body count made by the monk Thomas, was 66,509.

Annals 1: 216. The serious damage he refers to, however, was more likely to have been of a more recent date, i.e., from the time of the earthquake of 746, with the restorations of Charlemagne only partly restoring its former glory, or else damage that took place subsequent to the restorations.

Bartolomeo Pirone, ed., Eutichio, Patriarca di Alessandria (877–940), Studia Orientalia Christiana-Monographiae (Jerusalem: Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Franciscan Printing Press, 1987).

English translation in Wilkinson, Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades.

That the church was not destroyed is also indicated in the occasionally garbled account of Adomnan, De Locis Sanctis 1:4 (c. 685), written up on the basis of a description from a visitor named Arculf.

As noted by Robert Schick, The Christian Communities of Palestine from Byzantine to Islamic Rule: A Historical and Archaeological Study, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 2 (Princeton: The Darwin Press, 1995), pp. 332–333.

Gérard Garitte, ed., La Prise de Jérusalem par les Perses en 614 Corpus SCO 202–203 (Louvain/Leuven: Secrétariat de Corpus SCO, 1960): 78–79 (Georgian); 52 (Latin); Gérard Garitte, ed., Expugnationis Hierosolymae A.D. 614, 2 vols., Corpus SCO 340–341, 347–348; (Louvain/Leuven: Peeters, 1973–1974), 102 (Arabic); 68 (Latin).

English translation in Wilkinson, Jerusalem Pilgrims before the Crusades.

Procopius, History of the Wars 4:9: 6–9.