Strategius

He wrote a sermon on the siege and sack of Jerusalem in 614 and its aftermath, the forcible relocation of some of its inhabitants to Ctesiphon and the efforts of the Patriarch Zacharias to stiffen their faith in the face of persecution.

Despite some deficiencies, this "account is of great value to the historian, as long as it is handled judiciously"[1] and is "perhaps the single most important historical source for events in Jerusalem and the Holy Land in the decades immediately prior to the Islamic invasion and conquest".

[5] The full Arabic translation is found in three manuscripts and an abridged version in two more.

He argued that the Georgian translation was made from an Arabic version in the 10th century.

[7] Strategius, sometimes called Antiochos Strategos, has been tentatively identified with the monk Antiochus of Palestine, but this is unproven.