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'''Joshua the [[Stylite]]''' (also spelled '''Yeshu Stylite'''<ref>Witold Witakowski ''Chronicle: known also as the Chronicle of Zuqnin'', Liverpool University Press, 1996, p. xxi</ref> and '''Ieshu Stylite''') is the attributed author of a [[chronicle]] which narrates the history of the war between the [[Later Roman Empire]] and [[
The work owes its preservation to having been incorporated in the third part of the ''[[Zuqnin Chronicle|Chronicle of Zuqnin]]'', and may probably have had a place in the second part of the ''Ecclesiastical History'' of [[John of Ephesus]], from whom (as [[François Nau]] has shown) Pseudo-Dionysius copied all or most of the matter contained in his third part. The chronicle in question is anonymous, and Nau has shown that the note of a [[copyist]], which was thought to assign it to the monk Joshua of Zuqnin near Amida ([[Diyarbakir]]), more probably refers to the compiler of the whole work in which it was incorporated. In any case, the author was an eyewitness of many of the events which he describes, and must have been living at [[Edessa, Mesopotamia|Edessa]] during the years when it suffered so severely during the [[Roman–Persian Wars]]. His view of events is everywhere characterized by his belief in overruling Providence; and as he eulogizes [[Flavian II of Antioch|Flavian II]], the [[Chalcedon]]ian [[patriarch of Antioch]], in warmer terms than those in which he praises his great Monophysite contemporaries, [[Jacob of Serugh]] and [[Philoxenus of Mabbog]], he was probably an orthodox [[Catholic]].
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