Azazel

Written by Youssef Zidane

Pages: 381

This book, which I recommended to be published after my death, includes a translation as faithful as possible of the group of scrolls that were discovered ten years ago in the archaeological ruins located to the northwest of the Syrian city of Aleppo... They have reached us with the ancient Syriac writings on them in good condition, which we rarely find. Like it, even though it was written in the first half of the fifth century AD... it is preserved in a wooden box, tightly closed, in which the Egyptian monk Hepa deposited what he wrote of a strange biography and an unintended chronicle of the facts of his anxious life and the vicissitudes of his turbulent time...